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...
2012 Winter Capstone Projects Oral Defense and Design Expo took place in the library of Shanghai Jiao Tong University on December 19, 2012. In the morning, two oral defense sessions proceeded concurrently. In the afternoon, an exhibition showcased 15 capstone...
After three months of fierce competition, the SJTU Freshmen Ping Pong Tournament concluded on December 14, 2012. JI freshmen Sun Xun and Hu Bingyuan snatched the first and fourth places respectively in the Women’s Singles. Sun Xun joined SJTU’s Ping Pong Club in this...
After 2 months of fierce competition, the 2012 SJTU Freshmen Volleyball Tournament concluded on November 30. Like a black horse, the JI team emerged as the runner-up.
JI’s 2012 team building retreat was held on the weekend of December 7-8 in Songjiang, Shanghai. Seventy-one or 94% of faculty and staff members attended this important event.
Editor’s Note: In November of 2012, for the first time, JI awarded the highly coveted “Covidien Scholarship,” which covers up to 4 years of full tuition for any freshman who ranked the provincial top 30 in the national college entrance exams. The winners this year are...
