Invited by Zhejiang Zhenghai High School and Hangzhou Xuejun High School, Prof. June Ni, Dean of UM-SJTU JI, gave a seminar at each school on April 6 and 7. The seminars themed “Cherishing Today’s Opportunities; Striving for Tomorrow’s Success” saw a full-house...
The 2013 JI Town Hall Meeting was held on April 2. Dean Ni, Gang Zheng, Scott Yang, Qi Wu, Wentao Qian,and Michael Chen met with student representatives to discuss issues regarding JI’s development, curricula, and student life.
SJTU 22nd 60-Second Innovative Elevator Speech Contest took place on March 28, 2013. After two rounds of fierce competition among the eleven contestants, Qu Zhi, JI’s sophomore, beat his competitors and snatched the championship along with a prize of 3000 RMB. The...
On March 21 -22, 2013, ten juniors from the top universities all over China came to JI to attend the Graduate Student Recruitment Spring Camp sponsored by JI’s Graduate Students Office.
The 14th UM-SJTU Joint Institute Board Meeting was held simultaneously via videoconference at the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University on February 15, 2013. Attendees in the University of Michigan included UM board members Mary Sue Coleman,...
On January 13, in the award ceremony of SJTU’s Student Affairs Committee, JI’s Student Affairs Office, consisting of Scott Yang, Qi Wu, Candy Liu, Michael Chen, Wentao Qian, and Jie Lin, stood out to receive the award as “Excellent Student Work Group,” which is the...
JI’s Dean Ni has been selected to receive the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Gold Medal Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding service to the manufacturing engineering profession in technical communications through published literature,...
Dr. Jason Daida, a visiting lecturer from the University of Michigan, who had come to teach at JI every summer since 2007, passed away in Ann Arbor on January 9, 2013, after several months of illness. It was Dr. Daida who unveiled VG 100:Introduction to Engineering,...
The results of the third University Physics Competition, announced on December 21, 2012, brought great news: the Joint Institute team, composed of Yanrong Li, Yihe Tang, and Xiwa Deng, has won the competition among the 81 teams from all over the world. Our students...
SJTU International Exchange and Cooperation Office has just announced the winners of International Research Cooperation Seed Fund, a subset of SJTU’s Phase-III 985 Project that aims to construct an international education environment at SJTU. Five proposals from JI...
As approved by the Board of Directors, Dean Ni recently announced some changes in JI’s leadership team: Effective January 1, 2013, Professor Peisen Huang has assumed the position of Deputy Dean. Effective September 1, 2012, Professor Olivier Bauchau (former Chair of...
JI Professors Tian Yang and Jigang Wu won the 2012 Grants of Chinese University Ph. D. Research Foundation sponsored by MOE. They both applied for the discipline of electronics and communication.Yang is in the category of Ph. D. Advisor, and Wu is in the category of...
