On the morning of March 13, Jean-Michel Nicolle, President of EPF Graduate School of Engineering in France, led a delegation to Chengdu University (CDU). President Wang Qingyuan and Vice President Peng Xiaolin greeted him and his delegation in the conference room of Complex Building D.
Wang Qingyuan extended a warm welcome to the guests and introduced to them CDU's development history, schooling positioning, as well as integration and implementation of its talent strategy, characteristics strategy, and internationalization strategy in recent years. He said that as an application-oriented city university, CDU has made remarkable progress in ESI's global top 1% disciplines, nature index, highly cited papers, student discipline competitions, and other fields in recent years. CDU and EPF Graduate School of Engineering enjoy broad space and huge potential for cooperation. He hoped that the signing of the memorandum of cooperation between the two universities could bring about wider and higher-level cooperation in teacher/student exchanges, cooperative education, international scientific research, and other fields, and achieve more effective cooperation results.
Jean-Michel Nicolle thanked CDU for its warm reception. He introduced the development history of EPF Graduate School of Engineering and proposed that the two universities have many similarities—both of them regard international cooperation as an important strategy for development. He believed that the signing of the memorandum would play a positive role in promoting the development of the two universities.
Subsequently, the presidents of the two universities jointly signed the Memorandum of Cooperation Between EPF Graduate School of Engineering and Chengdu University. According to the memorandum, both parties will carry out comprehensive cooperation in such fields as academic research, teaching, and teacher/student exchange.
After the meeting, the guests visited the School of Mechanical Engineering, the Institute for Advanced Study, the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Stirling College of CDU.
Relevant leaders of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Stirling College attended the meeting.
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Established in 1925, the EPF Graduate School of Engineering (EPF École d'Ingénieurs) is an institution that trains generalist engineers. Renamed the EPF-School of Engineering, it is the first private university in France to train female engineers and one of the members of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) and the Union des Grandes Ecoles Indépendantes (UGEI). Engineer education is a “name card” of higher education in France, also known as Grande Ecole. With the goal of cultivating high-quality engineers who can master advanced science and technology and are proficient in management, the engineering school has trained a number of top award winners in the scientific community, such as Nobel Prize laureates and Fields Medalists, as well as business tycoons, generals, and presidents. At present, EPF Graduate School of Engineering has 16 majors, including 3 for bachelor's degrees, 9 for master's degrees, 1 jointly run by France and Germany for master's degree, 1 jointly run by France and Canada for master's degree, 1 apprenticeship major for master's degree and 1 science major for master's degree. The majors are Aerospace Engineering, Materials Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering Management (taught in English), Healthcare Engineering, Environmental Energy Engineering (taught in English), Big Data (taught in English), Green and Sustainable Construction Engineering (taught in English), Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management, and so on.
