From January 23rd to January 24th, the 2023 Year-end Meeting and the 2024 Key Work Retreat of ZJUI were successfully held. Academician Lee Der-Horng, Dean of ZJUI, Prof. Jin Jianming, Executive Dean of ZJUI, Prof. Ma Hao, Vice Dean of ZJUI, and Prof. Wang Hongwei, Vice Dean of ZJUI, attended the meeting. More than 100 faculty members and staff gathered together to review and summarize the past 2023 and look forward to the future. The 2024 Key Work Retreat was chaired by Dean Lee Der-Horng, and the 2023 Year-end Meeting was chaired by Prof. Wang Hongwei.
Dean Lee Der-Horng affirmed the work of all the faculty members and staff of ZJUI over the past year. He pointed out that in accordance with the development requirements of the "Double 8 Strategy" and the strategic goal of Zhejiang University to build a world-class university with Chinese characteristics, ZJUI should fully stimulate the eight existing advantages formed in terms of regime, location, industry, coordinated development, ecology, resource, environment, and humanities since its establishment, gather resources from all parties, gather strong forces, and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern. He emphasized that teaching quality is the reason why we are here and why we have been recognized, and faculty members must persistently pay attention to. In research work, we must adhere to the three major aspects of stimulating qualitatively new productivity, opening new prospects in fundamental research, and strengthening original innovation; Technological research breaks through engineering challenges and bottlenecks; Translational research resolves persistent difficulties, serving the industries and contributing to the national strategy.
Prof. Jin Jianming extends his gratitude to all the faculty members and staff. He stated that ZJUI, as an important partner of UIUC, has achieved rapid and remarkable development since its establishment, and UIUC has also given great attention and strong support. He also looks forward to ZJUI highlighting and grasping the key points in the future, uniting to inject new vitality into development, and writing a new chapter for going ahead.
Prof. Ma Hao presented a special report on financial safety reminder to all faculty members and staff, emphasizing and warning all faculty members and staff through cases of financial safety and negative list of financial utilization. He emphasized the crucial role of financial risk management in the development of ZJUI, and hoped that all faculty members and staff would clarify the rules, adhere to the bottom line, eliminate major financial risks, and ensure the sustainable and high-quality development of ZJUI.
▲ Award Ceremony for the Dean's Circle of Excellence
▲ Award Ceremony for the Excellent Faculty and Staff of 2023
▲ Award Ceremony for the Winners of ZJUI 2023 Junior Faculty Teaching Exchange and Competition
▲ The Ceremony of Awarding the Certificate for the Newly Recruited Faculties
The 2023 Year-end Meeting commended advanced teams and individuals who have received honors at the university, campus, and institute levels. ZJUI leaders awarded the prizes to and take group photos with the commended individuals in order. At the meeting, a welcoming ceremony for newly recruited faculty members and a ceremony for awarding the certificate to them were also held.
At the 2024 Key Work Retreat held on January 24th, in-depth discussions and exchanges were held among ZJUI leaders, directors of research divisions, academic directors of undergraduate programs, and internal office heads on key issues such as faculty development and tenure-track, undergraduate education and teaching evaluation and ABET evaluation, scientific research and technology transformation, and Engineering+ program construction.
Prof. Jin Jianming emphasized the practices and experiences of UIUC in faculty development and tenure-track system, providing new ideas for the introduction and cultivation of young faculty members in ZJUI. Prof. Ma Hao mobilized the undergraduate education and teaching evaluation and ABET evaluation work in 2024, put forward clear requirements and work arrangements, and emphasized that the entire institute should attach great importance to the evaluation and work together to improve the quality of undergraduate education and teaching. Prof. Wang Hongwei proposed to promote the synergy between research innovation and transformation, implement corresponding methods for different goals based on various objectives. While emphasizing the cultivation of original innovation capabilities, we will organize joint research and development to address key challenges, further deepen the integration of industry, university, and research to promote the research transformation and strive to produce influential landmark achievements. Representatives of attending faculty members and staff also gave introduction and analyses on relevant issues, providing suggestions for achieving the goals.
Dean Lee Der-Horng pointed out in his summary that the entire institute should clarify the work goals, ideas, and priorities for 2024, further unify their thinking, boost confidence, and promote high-quality work in an orderly and planned manner. Specifically, it is necessary to further attach importance to education, consolidate teaching quality, identify and fill in the gaps, standardize various rules and regulations, strengthen process management, and improve the level of refined management; We need to further strengthen the cultivation and support of young faculty members, help them clarify their goals and tasks in the early stages of their careers, refine their long-term academic development plans, leverage the power of mentors to pass on their experience to the early career faculty members, and establish a sustainable, healthy, fully prepared, and proactive faculty and staff team to create a good development ecology; We should further condense our own characteristics by comparing with reality, carry out organized research, rely on disciplines to revitalize cohesion and competitiveness, and empower high-quality coordinated development of regions and industries; To further enhance internal governance, carry out strategic investment in annual key work, scientifically set budget performance goals, play a guiding and improving role, and promote the continuous organic unity of individual goals and organizational goals; To further leverage the advantages of the regime and the characteristics of "Self-Initiation and Integrating China and the West", we aim to build a high-level industry- university-research exchange platform, expand ZJUI's relationship network, gather resources from all parties, and seek common development.
Focusing on the goal of building a world-class engineering college with Chinese characteristics, the Retreat clarified the direction, decomposed tasks, reached consensus, and determined procedures. The entire institute will always bear in mind the instructions, and contribute ZJUI's strength to "being the pioneer and writing a new chapter".
