The results of the national final of 2021 National Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition were announced the other day. The four CQU teams that had got to the final gratifyingly claimed 2 gold awards, 1 silver award and 1 copper award in the national final as CQU students had in the event in previous years.

From September 16 to 18, 2021, the national final of 2021 National Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition was being held in Tsinghua University. The event was sponsored by the Department of Higher Education, the Ministry of Education, co-organized by the Steering Committee on Engineering Training and Teaching under the Ministry of Education and the Organizing Committee of 2021 National Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition, and undertaken by Tsinghua University.

It is reported that 19,000 teams made up of totally 66,000 college students from 690 colleges and universities across China signed up for the event and 601 teams made up of 2,404 students from 267 colleges and universities got to the national final. The event took “work hard and pursue excellence in engineering innovation; serve the society and contribute to intelligent manufacturing initiative” as its theme. The information technology was adopted for the first time to organize “distributed cloud competitions” at 26 different sites across China. The three-level competition system which included the college-level competition, province-level (municipality or autonomous region-level) competition and national-level final was adopted. More than 500 pieces of gold award, silver award, copper award and single award winning works were eventually selected in the national final.

CQU students claimed the gold award for Thermal-driven Cars of the Engineering Foundation Track, the gold award for Intelligent Logistics Handling of the “Intelligent +” Track, silver award for the Intelligent Classification of Household Wastes, and copper award for the aircraft design simulation of the Virtual Simulation Track. The event was launched in March 2020 and the results were released in November 2021, over a time span of 20 months. CQU students and teachers participating in the Competition made full preparation and achieved the best records of CQU in the event, winning honors for CQU.