The wheels of the times keep rolling forward, and the opening doors are wider and wider. In such a rapidly changing era of globalization, ZJUI is committed to cultivating international and compound innovative engineering people. In addition to establishing innovation and entrepreneurship platforms, in the course design, ZJUI also pays attention to cultivating students' innovation and entrepreneurship ability, as well as their understanding of the industry forefront and cognition of the business society.

In ZJUI's Senior Design course, apart from stimulating students' inspiration and guiding students to complete interdisciplinary creative design, the course also pays attention to the development of students' innovation, entrepreneurship awareness and business thinking. At the initiative of Assist Prof. Mark Butala, one of the faculty members in charge of the senior design course in the spring semester of 2023, together with International Business School, Zhejiang University (ZIBS), brought two specially invited reports focusing on the forefront of the industry and stimulating entrepreneurial vitality to the graduating class, empowering innovation and laying foundation for the future.

 Invited Lecture Ⅰ: CHEN Bining

Entrepreneurship: A Journey Full of Self-exploration

From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on February 25, CHEN Bining, the Deputy Secretary-General of ELITE EAGLE and CEO of Qihe Technology Company, was invited to attend the senior design class of ZJUI. Taking "Entrepreneurship: A Journey Full of Self-exploration" as the topic, she told the students her story of innovation and entrepreneurship, shared the speech and communication skills, as well as the difficulties and corresponding solutions encountered in the product from engineering design to commercial promotion.