on the afternoon of august 27th, queen mary university of london engineering school, npu, held the 2019 opening ceremony atao'xiang student center,chang’ an campus.deankong jie,executivevicedeanandrew bushby,vicedeansfan xiaoli and chenjun, qmul teacher representatives maria romero and zhang han,director offacultyof materials science and engineeringgao pengfei anddirector offacultyofpolymermaterials andengineering shi xuetao attended the ceremony, and witnessed the important moment together with all the 2019 freshmen and their parents.
andrew bushby,executivevicedean,expressedhis welcome and expectation for the 2019 freshmen, and wishedthat theywouldmake good use of the resources in npu and qmul to achieve academic success. at the same time, he hopedthat studentscouldactively carry out international exchanges and cooperation, and make efforts to expand their international vision —— condense their heart and strength, and move forward inpursuit of dreams.qmesaims to develop students' active learning, critical thinking and innovative abilities,and providesthem withstrongest motivation and support to become international engineers and global citizens.
next, jiang yuxuan, the representative of the freshmen, and gao yifan, the 2018outstanding student representative,gavespeeches in fluent english respectively. jiang yuxuan combined his expectation forschoollife with the ideal and ambition of young people in the new era, expressing his confidence and yearning for the future study and a better life. gao yifan introducedher in-depth experience ofschoollife this yearfrom multiple dimensions.on behalf of all the students inqmes, she said that she would base herself on the international stage,make full use of the advantages of educational and teaching resources ofqmul and npu, actively embrace multiculturalism, and strive to grow into the youth the motherlandneed.
then,deankong jie expressed his eager expectation and good wishes to the freshmen. he said the qmesis a result of the opening-up of national education in the new era and a milestone of deepening exchanges and cooperation betweenqmul and npu. after three years of steady development,qmescontinues to improve the international engineering talent innovation training platform, providing a steady stream of innovation power for the development of students. the arrival of the 2019 freshmen represents anew milestoneofqmes,a full trust in high-end international exchanges and cooperation, and injects a new vitality into the opening of a new chapter.deankong jiecomprehensively interpretedthe advantages of the chinese-foreign cooperative education model in the new era. in addition, he sorted out the discipline advantages, professional advantages and faculty advantages of the qmes in detail from a micro perspective, and put forward three suggestions of "academic, moral and planning". he hopedthat the students coulduniteknowing and doing,beerudite in classic culture, discipline themselves with etiquette, andformulate their own learning plans and goals, and wish students a bright future!
finally,deankong jie andexecutivevicedeanandrew bushbyinteracted with students and their parents, answered and introducedquestions related tosubject characteristics, professional framework, educational resources, talent training and students' further study in detail.
after the interactive q&a session, allofthe staff ofqmestookgroupphotos with the freshmen and their parents on-site to record the precious encounter.at theopening ceremony, the freshmen benefited a lot from the comprehensive school history and situation, professional introduction and learning planning education.good wishes and earnest expectations have given them great courage and inspiration. may the freshmen of 2019 carry their dreams and set out to enjoy a pleasant, full and rich university time.
