Xia Jianguo, male, born in January 1963 in Songjiang, Shanghai, a second-level professor, doctor, doctoral supervisor, is now deputy Party secretary and president of Shanghai University of Engineering Science.
He is also anadjunctprofessor in East China Normal University, and served as executive director of the 6th and 7th Standing Commission and the 4th Academic Committee member of the Chinese Association of Higher Education, managing director of the Standing Commission and Academic Committee of the Chinese Association of Vocational and Technical Education, and Vice President of the Fifth Council of China Machinery Industry Education Association. He is honored with other titles by the relevant centers affiliated to Ministry of Education, such as member of the expert group on transitional development of local undergraduate universities, specialist in examination and evaluation of undergraduate teaching in ordinary universities, member of the expert group on research and practice of new engineering, member of the expert committee of the Education and Training Program for Excellent Engineers, and member of the expert advisory committee of Non-profit Private Colleges and Universities as well as distinguished chief expert of School Planning, Construction and Development Center.He also serves as President of the Council of the National Association of School-Enterprise Alliances for Excellent Engineering Education in Local Universities,and Vice President of Shanghai Institute of Higher Education.
He has won the first prize of National Teaching Achievement (2015), the fourth National Outstanding Principal Award for Educational Reform and Innovation (2016), the special award of Shanghai Municipal-level Teaching Achievement (2017), the first prize of the 11th Shanghai Educational and Scientific Research Achievement, and the Shanghai Yucai Award.
He has published six monographs, such as Education Tour, Introduction to Technical Undergraduate Education, and Higher Technical Education, as well as more than 100 papers in academic journals such as China Higher Education, Higher Engineering Education Research and China Higher Education Research.