In order to strengthen the faculty team and promote junior faculty members to update their teaching ideology, adopt modern teaching approach and master basic teaching skills to improve effects of both traditional lecture and students training, the ZJUI Junior Faculty Teaching Competition was held in the Engineering Building B407 on the afternoon of October 20, 2020. 11 junior faculty members participated in the competition. The competition is led by 3 main judges, Professor Tingju Zhu, Professor Weeliat Ong and Professor Fangwei Shao, who are professors with rich oversee experience, outstanding teaching effects, and good reputation among students. Faculty members from various fields and representatives of the institute's Academic Affairs Office, participated in scoring. The event was hosted by Professor Fangwei Shao, the associate professor of ZJUI.
This competition is mainly composed of instructional design introduction, lecture display, and on-site questions, comments and scoring by judges. The participating ZJUI junior faculty members were guided by the concept of cultivating students with virtue, combined with the characteristics of engineering, carefully prepared the content of their lectures, and brought a grand meeting of cross-disciplinary engineering teaching skills to all the audience.
After the demonstration, the judges gave instructive suggestions in terms of lecture design, content focus, delivery and posture, etc. It is hoped that junior faculty members will think more about how to underline the inspiration, how to lay stress on the importance, and how to help students increase their understanding and interest in engineering courses. All of that will create an open and innovative atmosphere of learning, teaching and cross-field research .
After review, two faculty members Hongwei Wang and Liangjing Yang, won the first prize of the competition for their scientific curriculum design as well as innovative, interesting, focused and inspiring style. Huan Hu and other 2 faculty members, won the second prize. Jiahuan Cui and other 5 faculty members won the third prize.
