On February 22, the much-watched analysis report of the 2021 National Regular College Students Competition was released, and SUES ranked the 98th in the list of the 2017-2021 National Regular College Students Competition, an increase of 10 places over last year. SUES ranked the 50th in the list of national local undergraduate college students competition in 2017-2021, an increase of 3 places over last year. SUES ranked the third in Shanghai local universities and the seventh in Shanghai universities. These achievements fully demonstrate that in recent years, SUES has maintained a long-term national excellent level in undergraduate education teaching and innovative talent training, and the strength of talent training has steadily improved.
The evaluation of national college discipline competitions is organized by the review group of the China Higher Education Association University Competition Evaluation and Management System Research, and the evaluation results have strong authority and influence. The relevant rankings focus on the cultivation of innovative talents in colleges and universities and the results of discipline competitions. In addition, the rankings are one of the important criteria for testing the quality of innovative talents in colleges and universities.
In 2021, SUES won 124 national awards and 962 provincial and municipal awards in BII and above discipline competitions. Among them, SUES won four national bronze awards in the China International Internet + College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. For the first time, SUES won two golds and one silver in the national finals of the China Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition with the second, third and fifth national results, and ranked the first in Shanghai. SUES the first time participated in the NCDA National University Digital Art Design Competition and won the first prize among the Chinese universities. Also SUES, the first time, attended the Milan Design Week - China University Design Excellent Works Exhibition, and won seven national first prizes. In addition, SUES won several first prizes in several competitions such as the national electronic design competition, Siemens Cup Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge, the China University Student Computer Competition, and the Material Heat Treatment Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. At the same time, SUES also hosted a number of municipal competitions such as the Machine Creation Competition, NCDA, Milan Design Week, Chemical Design Competition, China Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition, and Huichuang Youth Series, which effectively enhanced SUES’ influence.
The Academic Affairs Office takes the competition as an opportunity to incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship education into the assessment of colleges, teams and teachers, compacted the innovation and entrepreneurship education work, and integrated innovation and entrepreneurship education into the management of the entire university. In 2021, the Academic Affairs Office, the Graduate School Office, the Student Office, the Team and the University Science and Technology Park cooperated to organize 88 large and small double creation activities supporting the innovation and entrepreneurship training plan for college students, and carried out more than 50 various innovation and entrepreneurship competitions, 4917 students participating these activities.
In recent years, SUES has attached great importance to innovation and entrepreneurship education, established a competition management system that is based on university-level events, focused on municipal events, and led by national-level events, and also improved the relevant incentive mechanism. As a result, the cultural atmosphere of double creation has become increasingly strong, and the university-college coordination, two-way force, multiple measures and efforts has worked together to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and to help the improvement of the quality of talent training.