The 14th Undergraduate Graduation Design Competition Closed

Mars rover, multi-habitat reconnaissance mobile aircraft, ankle rehabilitation robot, automatic massage shampoo...These scientific research designs, which can ascend to the sky, descend to the sea and solve practical problems in production and life, all come from senior students who graduated this June.

On June 16,2020, the 14th "Guangzhou Numerical Control Cup" Undergraduate Graduation Design Competition hosted by the School of Mechanical Engineering held a closing ceremony online. Two hundred and fifty-four graduation design entries covering 22 engineering majors were submitted from 28 domestic universities, including Peking University, Tianjin University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Wuhan University, Chongqing University and National University of Defense Technology, etc. After strict primary selection, defense and evaluation, one Grand Prize, one First Prize, three Second Prizes and sixteen Third Prizes were chosen and awarded.

The competition works are mainly concerned with intelligent manufacturing, high-end equipment, artificial intelligence, big data analysis and other frontier fields, striving to meet the needs of China's economic development and to benefit social production and public life.

Professor Sun Tao, Deputy Dean of Tianjin University’s School of Mechanical Engineering said, "A lot of these graduation design entries adopt the most cutting-edge technology ideas and come up with feasible solutions for practical problems. Some aim at dealing with the technical shortcomings of large-scale national equipment, and some use new and high-tech means to promote development in the fields of aerospace and machinery manufacturing."

It is learnt that the "infrared Photobomb device for the mechanical detection of semiconductor electronic devices", which won the only Grand Prize in the competition, is a high-precision, contactless detection device developed for solving the key problems of the chip industry, which can monitor the bending and tension state of monocrystalline silicon in real time. At present, the inventor has applied for a National Patent for this achievement.

“Works like Research on Anchor Free's Visible Light Remote Sensing Image Ship Detection Algorithm,Design and Development of Miniature RF Ion Thruster, are all future-oriented and stood out in the competition as cutting-edge designs. They reflect the phased effect of emerging engineering education,” Sun Tao said, adding that some entries, such as "Campus Self-service Printing Service System" designed by Gao Donglin's team from TJU’S School of Mechanical Engineering, have been selected by enterprises to put into the market, showing a very broad application prospect.

Tianjin University invited 15 experts from universities and enterprises to form an evaluation committee that mainly work online out of pandemic control and prevention concern. The competition took the lead in launching "Enterprise-College" double mentor project in which students have two mentors, one from the enterprise that poses a challenging problem for students to solve and the other from the university who mainly provides academic support.

Jiang Wenming, the research director of Guangzhou Numerical Control Equipment Co. LTD, said, "We hope that with our advantages in technology transformation, we enterprises can deeply participate in higher education reform, provide universities with the most practical and urgent engineering and technical problems to solve, and carrying out relevant research and study together with teachers and students".

By the School of Mechanical Engineering

Editor: Eva Yin