Tsinghua University, China – Mission Statement
“Global Engineering” is a challenging project which links several esteemed engineering universities in the world doing study together.
Tsinghua University has always been the leading university providing higher engineering education in China. It is the Alma Mater of thousands of engineers and technical scientists, who have been playing important roles in Chinese Industry and society, among them there are 122 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
For the project of Global Engineering, a team lead by Vice-president Prof. Dr. Gong has been built up, consisting of faculty members from both Education Research Institute and engineering departments. The main study interests will be:
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Engineering education development and innovation
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Changing role of engineer and engineering education in the era of post-industrialization or of knowledge-based society
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Comparative study of engineering education in different countries
Partner portraits
- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
- Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Tsinghua University, China
- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- University of Tokyo, Japan
- Continental AG, Germany
