Hubei Institute of Technology: Practicing "Scientific Research and Educating People" and Fully Promoting the Cultivation of High-quality Talents

  In 2019, the stars of Hubei Institute of Technology are shining, and students’ science and technology competitions, subject skill competitions, academic innovation achievement competitions and the fifth "internet plus" college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship competition are frequently reported. At the same time, Hubei Institute of Technology was selected as a national university with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship … …

  Ask the canal to be so clear, because there is flowing water from the source. The source of this flowing water is that Hubei Institute of Technology adheres to the principle of "cultivating people by virtue" and the goal of "cultivating high-quality applied talents", and always continues the context of scientific and technological innovation, carries forward the tradition of opening up and innovating, and encourages teachers and students to bravely climb scientific peaks, apply what they have learned to serve the society, and cultivate people by virtue to pursue Excellence. In the practice of scientific research and education, we have written a new chapter in the era of practicing scientific research and education and comprehensively promoting "three-round education".

  Combine learning with research and dare to be the first.

  Cultivating talents makes teachers, and virtue is the foundation. As early as the beginning of the promotion, Hubei Institute of Technology firmly grasped the fundamental task of educating people in Lide, cultivated high-quality applied talents with the value pursuit of "advocating science, pursuing truth, developing ability and serving the society", and established "Mingde’s practical work" as its school motto.

  In the new era, the school "Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission", always adhere to moral education, and put scientific research and education in a more prominent position. Promote the connotative development of schools, realize the "two improvements" in the quality of education and the level of running schools, and form a long-term mechanism of "ideological and political education, innovative education, scientific research education and characteristic education". In promoting the practice of scientific research and education, the school keeps pace with the times, deepens the reform, comprehensively excavates the elements of scientific research and education, comprehensively optimizes the links and procedures of scientific research and education, improves the evaluation mechanism of scientific research and education, strengthens the implementation guarantee of scientific research and education, promotes the transformation and application of scientific research achievements, practices the spirit of open and innovative science and technology, firmly pursues the ideal of serving the society, advocates the scientific spirit of being the first, and creates a new system for improving the quality of scientific research and education.

  Innovation leads the reform drive

  In the exploration of scientific research and education, Hubei Institute of Technology advocates that the biggest goal of scientific research should be the effectiveness of scientific research and education, and that the last mile of "scientific research+education" should be opened, and efforts should be made to create a convertible, scalable and effective scientific research and education model with the characteristics of Hubei Institute of Technology.

  Deepening reform and driving scientific research and educating people. In recent years, the school has improved the evaluation mechanism of scientific research and education, strengthened the common understanding that "the core of scientific research is education", and put the general requirements of internal management system reform of "deepening reform, standardizing rigidity, optimizing structure and strengthening performance" throughout the whole process of teachers’ scientific research. Cultivate college students’ ideals and beliefs of advocating science, the will to climb the peak of science, and the scientific and rigorous academic style. Taking the College of Environmental Science and Engineering as an example, the College of Environmental Science and Engineering has established a "tutorial system training mode" with the cultivation of practical and innovative ability as the core, implementing environmental specialty groups and students’ whole process. Students arrange professional teachers as tutors from the beginning of entering the school, carry out general education on environmental protection, and rely on problem-oriented learning in projects and cases. Let students participate in the research of environmental impact assessment projects, cultivate students’ comprehensive abilities of autonomous learning, scientific thinking, innovation and adaptation to society, and gradually form a "three-in-one" model of combining students’ theory with practice, combining social practice with teachers’ scientific research projects, and combining social practice with serving local economy.

  Build a platform to expand scientific research and educate people. As one of the 50 national universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship in 2019 by the Ministry of Education, Hubei Institute of Technology, guided by the scientific and technological innovation of teachers and students, has built "five platforms" for innovation and entrepreneurship, built two maker innovation workshops of machinery and electronics, equipped with laser cutting machines, 3D printers, desktop-level machining kits and other equipment, introduced student science and technology associations such as Electronic Science and Technology Association and Machinery Manufacturing Association, and opened platform resources all-weather and free of charge. We will build an "upgraded version" of innovation and entrepreneurship education from students’ self-creation, teachers’ and students’ co-creation, and production and teaching ‘leading creation, encourage teachers to connect with industry, lead students to design and develop projects, apply innovation and entrepreneurship achievements to practical teaching, and share the achievements with the society, thus realizing the deep integration of scientific research and students’ innovation and entrepreneurship. Relying on the national off-campus practical education base for college students, the national environmental protection training base, the national innovation and entrepreneurship base and the national demonstration academician expert workstation, with the help of all kinds of off-campus scientific and technological competition platforms for college students, such as the national "internet plus" entrepreneurship competition, the national college students’ subject competition, the national college students’ academic innovation achievement competition, and the provincial key laboratories and collaborative innovation centers, we can drive students, lead students, love scientific research, concentrate on scientific research, innovate and start businesses, and realize the integration and docking of scientific research and education.

  Strengthen the team, promote scientific research and educate people. Talent resource is the first resource. To promote scientific research and education, Hubei Institute of Technology always takes talents as the basis and key, and pays special attention to the construction of teachers and teams. The school strictly controls the qualification and access system of teachers, and at the same time starts to implement the "100-doctor introduction plan" and constantly improves the evaluation and assessment mechanism of teachers. The school actively guides teachers and students to master the frontier trends of science and technology, and cultivates the team spirit and cooperation consciousness of tackling key problems collectively and jointly. In recent years, the school has cultivated and created the "Dawn Plan" of medical college, "Pollution and Prevention of Heavy Metals in Mining Areas" of Environmental College, "Recycling Technology and Transfer of Solid Wastes" of Materials College, "Research and Development of Functional Materials" of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering College, "Research on Mechanical Characteristics and Engineering Application of Surrounding Rock" of Civil Engineering and Architecture College, "New Air Mixed Choir" and "Clothing of the Military Forces of the Han Dynasty" of Art College, and "Network" of Computer College. School of Electrical and Electronic Information "Intelligent and Open Power Electronic Experiment Comprehensive Device", School of Foreign Languages "Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Translation, Foreign Literature Research", Teachers College "Network and new media ","artificial breeding, flowering regulation and container seedling cultivation of Elsholtzia Haizhou "and other influential project teams in the province and China.

  Strengthen the system to ensure scientific research and educate people. First of all, the school has established the overall goal of discipline construction and scientific research work, taking discipline construction as the guide and doing a good job in platform construction; Taking application as the starting point, promoting scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation; Focus on talents and do a good job in team building; Quality-oriented, improve the performance of discipline construction and scientific research; Taking audit as an opportunity to do a good job in standardized management of funds; For the purpose of sustainable development, create a good scientific research atmosphere. Secondly, improve scientific research evaluation standards, improve academic evaluation methods, build an academic integrity system, and advocate teachers and students to practice good academic norms and academic ethics. In addition, increase funding, build a scientific research information management platform, strengthen the management of scientific research achievements, and promote the sharing of scientific and technological information.

  Gather trees into a forest and let a hundred flowers blossom.

  The quantity and quality of scientific research have been significantly enhanced. In the past three years, the doctoral service group of Hubei Institute of Technology has been awarded the advanced unit in the province, and the academician workstation has been awarded the "National Model Academician Expert Workstation". Approved 15 provincial scientific research platforms, 9 provincial innovation teams, 30 national natural science foundation projects, 4 national social science foundation projects, 10 humanities and social science projects of the Ministry of Education, 5 projects of other ministries and commissions, and 60 natural and social science foundation projects of Hubei Province; 71 national invention patents were added, and 12 scientific research achievement awards were awarded at or above the provincial level; Teachers and students published 1600 scientific research papers; Dr. Liu Bin and a team of three undergraduates jointly published a high-scoring SCI paper, which was published in the internationally renowned journal Diabetes, with an impact factor of 8.7.

  The construction of scientific and technological innovation platform has developed rapidly. In the past two years, the school and local governments and enterprises have jointly established "Huangshi Huli Environmental Protection and Energy Saving Industry Research Institute", "Huangshi Intelligent Mould Industry Research Institute", "Huangshi Intelligent Conveying Equipment and Robot Industry Research Institute", "Huangshi Industrial Tourism and Mining and Metallurgy Culture Research Center", "Huangshi Continuing Education and Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Center" and "Huangshi Intellectual Property Cultivation and Achievement Transformation Center" and other "three institutes and three centers" for scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation. More than 850 scientific and technological cooperation and technical service agreements have been signed with more than 400 enterprises (or government departments). The production technology and application of tenofovir dipivoxil and key intermediates jointly declared by the research team formed by Wang Zhiguo, Wang Zhigang and students passed the technical appraisal, reaching the international leading level and winning the "Hubei Science and Technology Progress Award".

  The innovation and entrepreneurship education created by teachers and students has achieved remarkable results. Hubei Institute of Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base was recognized as "National Creative Space"; The first batch of "provincial dual-innovation demonstration bases" by Hubei Provincial Government, the first batch of "Hubei University Students’ Entrepreneurship Demonstration Bases" by Provincial Education Department, the first batch of "Hubei University Students’ Entrepreneurship Incubation Demonstration Bases" by Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the "Provincial Creative Space" and the "Provincial Science and Technology Business Incubator". The school became the first rotating chairman unit of Hubei applied university alliance. In 2019, the Ministry of Education launched a nationwide summary and publicity work on innovation and entrepreneurship in colleges and universities, which was declared by schools, reviewed and recommended by the Department of Education, reviewed by experts from the Ministry of Education online, conducted social surveys and conducted on-the-spot investigations by experts. In August this year, Hubei Institute of Technology was selected as a national university with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, and it is also the only provincial university in Hubei Province. At present, the innovation and entrepreneurship education of college students has entered the forefront of universities in China.

  The quality of training applied talents has been continuously improved. In the past three years, students have won 136 national awards and 447 provincial awards in mathematical modeling, electronic design and mechanical innovation design. Approved 51 national-level college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training programs and 107 provincial-level ones; Cultivate and incubate more than 290 entrepreneurial companies for college students. Driven by teachers, only the Computer College, students participated in the teachers’ research team, and published 13 academic papers on SCI, EI and core journals, 5 medical college students, 13 materials college students, 10 chemistry and chemical engineering college students and 13 mathematics and physics college students. In the national "internet plus" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, he won 2 national bronze awards and 10 provincial gold, silver and bronze awards. Students were well received in the third internet plus Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition "Youth Dream Tour in Red". The total number of awards won by students in the fifth "internet plus" University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition reached a record high, and the School of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering’s "Automobile first ‘ Sound ’ " The project team won the gold medal in the start-up group of the main track.

  If you don’t accumulate steps, you will be thousands of miles away; If you don’t accumulate small streams, you can’t make rivers and seas. In the exploration and practice of scientific research and education in the new era, Hubei Institute of Technology has practiced the spirit of science and technology of openness and innovation, set up the ideal pursuit of serving the society, advocated the scientific attitude of being the first, sowed the seeds of wisdom and creation in students’ hearts, led students to follow their dreams, and embarked on a development road of training high-quality applied talents. (Wu Fengting, Ma Xuejun, Liu Manzhong)