Two SCUT experiment centers selected by SME as national experiment education demonstration centers(43513)


Prof. LAN Fengchong, director of the Engineering Training Center, instructing the students	Prof. CHU Qingxin, director of the Electrical Information & Control Experiment Center, instructing the students

Recently, State Ministry of Education (SME) announced the selected units of 2008 national experiment education demonstration center. SCUT Engineering Training Center and Electrical Information & Control Experiment Center were on the list, making the University one of the five universities which had two centers nominated at one time. So far, SCUT has three demonstration centers of the kind.

The national experiment education demonstration centers are established to reinforce the training of creative and practical abilities of college students, and to promote the reform of experiment education and the construction of experiment facilities. From 2005 to 2009, 500 national demonstration centers will be established, as proclaimed by SME.

According to statistics, in the past five years, under the guidance of the Engineering Training Center, nearly 90 students have won prizes and awards in the provincial competitions or above. The center teachers have won 1 national teaching award and 3 provincial or ministerial-level teaching awards, and have published 46 papers on teaching and 20 course textbooks. SME commented that the center has developed into a modern engineering training center with advanced concepts, perfect system, rich contents, and distinctive characteristics, exerting considerable demonstration and exemplary effects.

Based on 4 national level-1 disciplines conferring the doctoral degree, SCUT Electrical Information & Control Experiment Center has set up 3 experiment education platforms in electrics, electronic information and automatic control, offering 46 experiment courses (among them, 1 has been entitled the national elite course) and undertaking 330 experiment projects.

In the last five years, the students under the guidance of the center teachers have won 2 first prizes in international contests, 13 first prizes and 11 second prizes in national contests. The center has won 5 provincial or ministry teaching awards, published 6 course textbooks, and independently developed 14 experimental education devices.

SME commented that the center has provided rich and excellent teaching resources for Guangdong colleges and conducted active interaction and cooperation with enterprises, thus exerting strong exemplary effects in the circle.

Edited by HU Nanping and CHANG Wei

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Two SCUT experiment centers selected by SME as national experiment education demonstration centers

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