92% of the students have passed CET(College English Test) -Band 4, the employment rate reaches 94%, 91% of the students get an average score of above 80 points and 91 % have had offers from the top 500 enterprises in China...these stunning figures resulted from Class T1013-7, the first pilot class of “Excellent Engineers Program “. The graduation of the whole class with remarkable results demonstrates the success of the program which has taken a big and steady step towards the reform of engineering education.
On June 23, 2010, the Ministry of Education held a meeting in Tianjing which initiated the "excellent engineer education plan". The plan aims to train a large number of engineering talents with innovative ability, adaptable to the needs of economic and social development so that they can contribute themselves to the development of new industries and strategy of building an innovative and powerful country with talents.
As a university with wide engineering background featuring automobiles, HUAT took the chance and opened such 3 classes within the programs of mechanical manufacturing and automation, automobile engineering, material forming and control, which have gained wide recognition from the society.
Professor Ye Zhongxin, the head teacher of the Class T1013-7 told reporters that the final 42 freshmen were selected into the class according to the results of their college entrance examination and by means of two-way selection, which means that both side can make their own choice whether to admit the student or accept the offer. Once admitted, a detailed study plan will be worked according to each student’s interests and hobbies with the help of a tutor. No one is guaranteed to stay in the class unless he sticks to the original study plan and can demonstrate that he is one of the best in the class. The reform brings about great interests of study and innovation ideas and triggers competitive consciousness among the students, which allows every student to take part in the competition actively so that they can adapt themselves to the future competition as early as possible and become the most innovative engineers of the 21th century.
Another group of remarkable statistics of the class is that among the 42 graduates, 3 have got their graduate offer from other universities, 38 are employed by some famous automotive enterprises or companies, 1 choose to start his won business in Singapore, every one of them have had the experience of participating in various kinds of contest and competition during the 4 years of study at HUAT and won 20 different prizes.
