Recently, the post-00s Xiang Yi has been busy learning professional software such as EDA, CAD, and MultiSIM in books and online, improving his knowledge reserve in the field of circuit design and **. All these efforts are because she has entered the countdown to leaving school and is about to usher in a new stage of life - joining Dongke Semiconductor (Anhui) Co., Ltd
She is a 2024 graduate of Anhui University of Technology, majoring in microelectronic science and engineering (formerly known as "light source and lighting"), and in her junior year, she was recommended by the school to go to Dongke Semiconductor for two months for an internship, and she has a new understanding of the new energy industry. Last year, he successfully submitted his resume and signed a contract at the school's autumn employment double selection meeting, which solved the "top priority" of employment.
In recent years, Anhui has systematically planned and developed the first industry of automobiles. Anhui is also an important pole of the national new energy vehicle map, and the export of its own brand ranks first in the country. In 2023, Anhui will produce 249 automobiles10,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 481%, and the output of new energy vehicles was 8680,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 605%。Anhui University of Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Anhui University of Technology") is located in Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province, is a multidisciplinary university with distinctive industry characteristics, since its establishment 65 years ago, it has embarked on the characteristic development road of "focusing on industry, serving the industry, integrating into the local area, and innovating and developing". As a university on the supply side of talents, ICE has cultivated talents for the development of local industries from the perspectives of optimizing the structure of disciplines and majors and the practice of cultivating new engineering talents.
From cognitive confusion to in-depth understanding of job prospects.
After 4 years of college, Xiang Yi's understanding of employment and industry has gradually deepened.
After the college entrance examination, Xiang Yi learned from the news that the power battery is one of the core components of the new energy vehicle industry, but he did not know about the professional employment prospects.
After the confusion of the freshman year, in the sophomore year, she had more impressions of the major in the introduction of the professional teacher - smart phones, tablets, laptops and other intelligent terminals and new energy vehicles will use the design, development and manufacturing knowledge of integrated circuits. She gradually became interested in digital electronics, analog electronics, and integrated circuit principles and design.
In the summer of her junior year, she went to Dongke Semiconductor Company for an internship, where she systematically learned the logic design of the front-end of integrated circuits and the layout and wiring of the back-end, and also followed the enterprise engineers to find out the problems of bad chips and give solutions. When the small products she designed and developed were put into use, she realized that further exploration was the sea of stars she had longed for, and it was a fulfilling and happy way to study.
Xie Chaoshi, who is the same major as Xiang Yi, recently signed a contract with Hefei Jinghe Integrated Circuit Co., Ltd. He still remembers that when he was interning in the company, he walked into the dust-free workshop, and he saw high-end equipment shuttling back and forth, and integrated circuits gradually taking shape. At that moment, he sighed that the Anhui integrated circuit industry chain had become a "core" fire trend. He is also determined to pursue a long-term career in his profession.
Enterprises come up with good questions, colleges and universities answer good questions.
Ji Jiuzhang, a 2019 graduate student majoring in materials science and engineering from the School of Metallurgical Engineering of the university, has been employed in Chervon Automotive Precision Technology (Anhui) for two years, engaged in machining technology and heat treatment technology. The company mainly provides auto parts for domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers or parts companies, including the three-electric system (motor housing, electric drive, battery housing) of new energy vehicles.
He bought a house in Ma'anshan, and also formed a stable social circle with local teachers and classmates in Ma'anshan. He felt that this experience was very meaningful, which allowed him to increase his knowledge and hands-on ability, and understand that he must develop the habit of lifelong learning, solve practical problems for enterprises, and put solutions into practice.
According to Tang Xubing, director of the Department of Microelectronics and Data Science of the School of Microelectronics and Data Science of Anhui University of Technology, the direction of new energy involves hydrogen energy, lithium battery, fuel cell, wind energy, etc., which requires talents who study materials, microelectronics and integrated circuits. "Graduates need to be specialized, not all, we need to aim at a specific talent training direction, find the right positioning, otherwise there will be a situation where you have to learn everything and can't learn anything deeply. ”
Tang Xubing recalled that there is a large-scale semiconductor company in Ma'anshan, which mainly designs and produces power management chips, and the company's demand for talents is mainly concentrated in the layout design of integrated circuits, chip packaging and testing and other related fields. To this end, the college has added layout design and integrated circuit testing directions to the professional elective courses, and added some corresponding courses, so that students can have an understanding of the relevant project development process and rules and regulations of the enterprise before entering the enterprise, and better adapt to the position.
In Tang Xubing's view, it is not only students who "answer questions" for enterprises, but also colleges and universities that "answer questions" for employment.
In normal times, the teachers of the college take the opportunity of business trips to contact relevant enterprises for exchanges, strive for paid summer internship opportunities for students, match the talent needs of enterprises, and integrate real projects and cases of enterprises into the course teaching, according to the difficulty and complexity of projects and cases to form multi-level training content of basic, intensive and innovative projects.
At present, the microelectronics major can recommend students who are not admitted to graduate school to semiconductor companies for internship. "In fact, from the time students enter the school to the time they graduate from the school, they will be exposed to enterprises at different stages, from cognitive internships, professional introductions, freshman seminars, production internships to professional courses, all of which are taught by enterprise engineers, which greatly promotes students' understanding of the industry. Tang Xubing said.
The person in charge of the academic affairs office of the school concluded that the school deeply connects with the benchmark enterprises in the region and promotes the reform of the mode of professional construction and talent training, which will help realize the transformation of students from "knowledge-based and technology-based talents" to "industrial application-oriented talents", and solve the problem of mismatch between the direction of talent training in colleges and universities and the demand for industrial talents.
Aligning majors and curricula around local leading industries.
Last year, Zhao Yinuo, a student from the Shandong College Entrance Examination, first chose to apply for the hydrogen energy science and engineering major of Angong University. After a semester, teachers often teach professional background, technological breakthroughs, employment directions, etc. in freshman seminars, and Zhao Yinuo will also consult relevant literature before materials chemistry experiments, "knowing what knowledge to learn and how to do experiments, and the study plan is gradually clear."
In 2023, the university will take the lead in enrolling hydrogen energy science and engineering majors in Anhui Province. At present, there are only four colleges and universities in the country that offer hydrogen energy majors, including the university. Zhao Yinuo usually pays attention to the information of the new energy vehicle industry and the production of new energy vehicles in Anhui, and she also noticed that Ma'anshan has applied hydrogen buses. Mr. Li Yongtao, the head teacher, is engaged in the research of solid-state hydrogen storage, and often introduces the professional application and development of hydrogen energy, and hopes to have the opportunity to join the scientific research team in the senior year and enter the enterprise internship to further understand the theoretical knowledge of hydrogen energy and improve the practical ability. She said.
In recent years, focusing on the needs of emerging industries in Anhui Province and the leading industries in Ma'anshan, the University of Technology has carried out the optimization, adjustment, upgrading, replacement and new construction of disciplines. In July 2023, the university researched and formulated the "Reform Plan for the Adjustment and Optimization of Discipline and Major Settings", which clarified that by 2025, the number of undergraduate majors will be controlled within 60, of which the proportion of majors serving the top ten emerging industries in Anhui will not be less than 8133%, forming a discipline and professional pattern that is in line with economic and social development.
Xiang Yi's light source and lighting major was renamed "Microelectronics Science and Engineering" in September 2021. The school benchmarks the major needs of Anhui's new energy automobile industry, so that the professional direction courses focus more on integrated circuit production, semiconductor technology, etc.
Professor Long Hongming, a national-level famous teacher and dean of the School of Metallurgical Engineering of Angong University, introduced that the new energy industry involves technologies such as lithium battery materials, intelligent vehicles and biomass energy, which is a highly innovative field, and enterprises need R&D talents to promote technological innovation and product upgrading. The school closely adjusts the curriculum to keep up with the development of the industry, organically integrates core courses such as new materials, energy conservation and environmental protection, intelligent manufacturing and big data into the training program, cutting-edge technologies and condenses the content, and builds a "metallurgical +" interdisciplinary curriculum system that meets the needs of talents in strategic emerging industries based on cross-border thinking.
For example, he integrated the teaching of non-ferrous metal functional materials with new non-ferrous metallurgical technologies in the non-ferrous metallurgy module, introduced the development and application of Android system in the intelligent manufacturing module, and increased the knowledge of metallurgical big data processing and intelligent model in the big data module. The ultimate goal is to cultivate graduates' strong innovation ability and practical ability such as experimental operation and equipment maintenance.
The linkage of multiple subjects promotes the improvement of students' employment skills.
Long Hongming said that his college has established contacts with new energy enterprises and industry associations, and invited new energy companies to carry out special job fairs and other activities to expand students' employment channels. In the past five years, about 25% of metallurgical engineering graduates have entered leading enterprises in the industry such as BYD, Chery, BOE, Yuanchen Environmental Protection and Guoxuan Hi-Tech.
According to the data provided by the University of Technology, in the past three years, the employment rate of metallurgical engineering, microelectronics science and engineering, and vehicle engineering majors related to the core technologies of the new energy automobile industry has been more than 95%, and it is improving year by year.
The reason why the school can continuously deliver talents for local industries is also inseparable from the school's idea of cooperating with multiple entities and implementing diversified talent training.
As early as May 2020, the school and Ma'anshan City established the first industrial college jointly built by universities in Anhui Province, set up new energy vehicles, semiconductors and other directions, and jointly carried out the cultivation of high-quality applied talents in the industry. On the one hand, the city and local economic parks provide policy, capital and space support, and on the other hand, the school invests in teaching places, teachers and teaching and research platforms. Students are selected from the sophomore year and receive a living allowance of 2,000 yuan per semester during the school period.
On this basis, relying on the Industrial College, Angong University actively attracts a number of key enterprises in the automobile industry in Ma'anshan, such as Valin Automobile, Hanma Technology, Keda New Energy, and Dongke Semiconductor, to join in, and the school and enterprise jointly select and hire industrial mentors, develop curriculum resources, and build training bases.
In the view of the person in charge of the Academic Affairs Office, the school explores the operation mechanism of "leading the world, the main body of the school, the participation of enterprises, and the integration of production and education", and promotes the docking of talent training supply and industrial demand, curriculum content and technology development, and teaching process and production process through real tasks, real processes, real scenarios, and real assessments. Among the first batch of graduates of the Industrial College in 2023, nearly 70% of them are engaged in industries related to intelligent manufacturing, new energy vehicles, communications, semiconductors and other industries.
The school and Ma'anshan City jointly built the first batch of engineering colleges in the province, and piloted the construction of a "first-class, provincial department participation, school body, service enterprise" integration platform of production and education, students can have academic qualifications, degrees, professional and technical titles 3 certificates when they graduate, and shorten the training cycle of engineering and technical personnel. Among the 2023 graduates, 76 have been recognized as junior and intermediate professional titles.
In the future, the school will continue to focus on the industrial chain, optimize the education chain, reform the talent chain, and integrate the innovation chain, so as to inject momentum into the high-quality development of the new energy automobile industry in Ma'anshan, Anhui and even the Yangtze River Delta while meeting the employment needs of graduates.
Zhang Ran, reporter of China Youth Daily, China Youth Network, Wang Haihan, Wang Lei, **China Youth Daily.
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