On the morning of September 28, 2022, the "Fifth Academic Forum Defense Meeting of School of Vehicle and Energy of YSU", sponsored by the Research and Postgraduate Department of School of Vehicle and Energy of YSU and organized by the Postgraduate Association, was successfully held in Classroom 308 of the Fourth Teaching Building. Jin Lisheng, Dean, and Yang Manping, Associate Dean of School of Vehicle and Energy, were invited to attend and deliver speeches. Seven teachers, Guo Baicang, Rong Yu, Shao Xianjie, Wang Huashan, Wang Qiang, Wang Zhong and Zhu Hongjian, were invited as judges, and all the postgraduates of the School of Vehicle and Energy participated in the meeting.
The academic forum was launched in May, including the international conferences, academic lectures, defense meetings and other academic activities, covering the vehicle engineering, thermal energy engineering, petroleum engineering and other disciplines, and received 81 effective works from postgraduate students.
Event site
At the beginning of the forum, Dean Jin Lisheng delivered a speech. On behalf of the faculty and students of the whole school, he expressed the warmest welcome and heartfelt thanks to all the experts and scholars attending the meeting, introduced the current research achievements and outstanding results made by the school in various aspects, encouraged the students with vivid examples and exciting words, and stimulated their enthusiasm and energy for scientific research.
Dean delivering a speech
Professor Yang Manping, Associate Dean, delivered a speech. He congratulated the smooth convening of this academic forum, and expressed the heartfelt thanks to the judges, faculty and guests who attended the meeting, expressed the encouragement and support to the staff, explained the significance and good effect of the academic forum, and encouraged all the students who attended the meeting to actively devote themselves to scientific research, and showed the expect for more active and better performance in the future.
Associate dean delivering a speech
The academic forum consists of personal statement and on-site defense. In the personal statement, each student systematically explained the topic selection, research basis, structure and main contents of the work within the specified time limit. In the on-site defense stage, the judges made pertinent comments and reasonable scores on the students' works from different perspectives such as academic norms, innovations and content structure, posed questions to the contestants and put forward feasible suggestions.
Contestants reporting results
Judges makingcomments
Finally, the winners were selected according to the online scores and on-site scores: first prize: Wang Zijian, Liu Hongjiang, Yin Lirun, Wang Hao and Ouyang Qiang, second prize: Jin Jiaxi, Dong Yawei, Yang Shunqing, Wang Hao, Lin Jingyu, Sun Hanxiao, Su Jian, He Yang and Wang Guangqi, third prize: Ma Hongbo, Wang Wanteng, Cui Tianqi, Wang Yuxi, Chu Jiehao, Xu Xinliang, Xu Hongyang, Li Guotong, Shi Longfei and Zhang Dongsheng. Judges issues the honorary certificates to the award-winning students. At the end of the forum, the judges took a group photo with the contestants.
Awards ceremony
Group photo of faculty and contestants
This forum is rich in content and wide in coverage, providing valuable communication opportunities for postgraduate students, through which the students strengthened communication, broadened their horizons and enlightened their wisdom, and which also laid a good foundation for the future academic development of the school, and also pointed out the direction for postgraduate students to move from theory to practice and from exploration to research. The defense meeting of this academic forum ended successfully.
