China environment daily, April 1, 2020, issue 7746, 5th Edition, published an article "landing" in "practical" innovation in the classroom, reporting the innovation education course of our institute. This issue reprints the original report. Click to read the original to view the articles of China environmental news.
China environment daily, April 1, 2020, 5th Edition
"With the opening of environmental protection innovation and entrepreneurship course, we can talk with senior environmental professors and famous entrepreneurs in the classroom, visit and understand the current situation of environmental protection enterprises in practice, and experience the connotation of innovation and entrepreneurship in the competition. Even if we will not all go to entrepreneurship in the end, these accumulation and precipitation will help us move forward better." Zhang Chi, a master of environmental science at Nanjing University in 2019.
The "innovation and Entrepreneurship of environmental protection industry" course mentioned by Zhang chikou is an elective course for undergraduates and a compulsory course for Postgraduates of the school of environment. It is jointly offered by the school of environment of Nanjing University and the alumni of Nanjing University. The curriculum integrates classroom, lecture, practice, competition and result incubation, forming a "three-level boost" training mode of green curriculum, green practice and green development.
Since September 2015, the course has been offered once a year, and nearly 1000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 10 departments have selected courses. During this period, many excellent projects have won the national special first prize, national second prize, and gold medal of Geneva International Invention Exhibition in the National College Students' extracurricular academic and technological works competition, and some projects have received follow-up support, landing, transformation and registration of the company 。
Members of the 16th "Challenge Cup" Nanjing University School of environment
The 47th Geneva International Invention Exhibition Nanjing University Environmental College Project
Interdisciplinary integration of production and education with emphasis on practice
The course content of "innovation and entrepreneurship in environmental protection industry" has five themes, namely, ecological civilization construction and innovation and entrepreneurship, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial opportunities, entrepreneurial ability and team building, marketing and enterprise management, entrepreneurial resources and entrepreneurial financing.
The lecturers are all leaders in the industry. They are not only the distinguished professors of Yangtze River scholars from the school, but also the chairman of the board of directors from venture capital, environmental industry and other industries.
"As a person of Nanjing University, I hope to pass on my entrepreneurial experience to young students, play the role of" informant "of social needs in the curriculum, integrate the growth needs of the society for environmental talents into the reform of talent training in Colleges and universities, and work together to cultivate the compound and innovative environmental talents needed by the times." Lu Chaoyang, general manager of Nanjing University Institute of environmental planning and Design Co., Ltd.
Referring to the original intention of the curriculum, Zhou Yuan, deputy secretary of the Party committee of the school of environment, introduced that the education of environmental discipline has a strong value guidance and discipline orientation. Through this course, we hope to do a good job in Ideological and political education, scientific and technological innovation and education of the curriculum, take students as the center, and solve the problems of strong professional barriers of existing teaching content and insufficient cross-border integration of disciplines through the establishment of interdisciplinary teaching team The integration of production and teaching strengthens practical teaching, solves the problems that the existing teaching mode emphasizes theory, neglects practice, emphasizes scientific research and neglects application; enriches teaching forms through classroom, practice and competition, and solves the problems that the effectiveness of the existing teaching and education is not strong.
According to Wang Dong, deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of Nanjing University, the course focuses on the core theme of ecological environment protection, realizes the connection of knowledge and skills, achieves the connection of theory and practice, promotes the integration of study and industry, and is a beneficial attempt to make the students who are interested in environmental protection and other majors firmly adhere to the new development concept, establish the feelings of home and country, and plant the green development concept 。
From the perspective of student employment data, it's more intuitive. Ge Junjie, director of the student employment guidance center of Nanjing University, said that in recent years, the employment rate of graduates of the environmental college is more than 98%. There are five students registered in companies to start businesses, and the employment satisfaction of employers is also very high. "Environmental protection innovation and entrepreneurship curriculum is an important carrier for the integration of industry and education, which organically links the education chain, talent chain, industry chain and innovation chain. It has made remarkable achievements in improving the employability and career development potential of students, and will have great potential in the future."
Li Li, President of Beijing control water group and Nanjing University School of environment, co founded the talent training base. Li Li, President of the group, said that South University students have strong thinking ability and strong sense of innovation. The most important thing is that the students have the environmental and human feelings that resonate with the state at the same frequency. I hope this course can continue. As an enterprise, it will also be committed to promoting the integration of production and education, and cultivating a large number of high-quality innovators Just to serve the national green water and green mountain construction.
Ren Hongqiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering and Dean of the school of environment, issued the letter of appointment of entrepreneurship tutor to Li Li, President of Beijing control water group
Green classroom reserves professional knowledge and practical experience
In the class of Wang Wuqiang, general manager of China Construction Water Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. in East China, he taught the experience sharing and PPP mode exploration of rural sewage treatment project. Taking the project of Liyang City as an example, he interpreted PPP mode from three aspects of project investment, construction and operation.
In the project operation, Wang Wuqiang encouraged the construction of intelligent operation platform with the main idea of "Internet plus village water service", and adopted intensive management mode and piecewise operation mode to ensure the professionalism and efficiency of operation.
At the end of the course, Wang Wuqiang also introduced the overall structure, work content and talent demand of environmental protection companies, administrative departments in the field of environmental protection and relevant design institutes for students' reference. Wang Wuqiang suggested that students should first understand the actual situation of the main units in the environmental protection industry, and systematically grasp the employment market of the whole industry.
In addition to the classroom teaching, the course will also organize students to visit and practice science and technology incubators such as the Yangtze River Ecological Civilization innovation center and Nanjing Environmental Protection Industry Innovation Center from time to time.
Visit Yangtze River Ecological Civilization Innovation Center
Visit Nanjing Environmental Protection Industry Innovation Center
According to Teng Ying, a master of Environmental Science in 2019, through this course, she has a clearer understanding of the development direction of environmental protection industry, gained a lot of practical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, and built the comprehensive skills and knowledge reserve needed for innovation and entrepreneurship, including finance, law, enterprise management, etc.
"Through internships and visits, going deep into enterprises and entering employers with needs, we not only have a further understanding of the employment of environmental majors, but also have a better grasp of the future direction."
"Competition for training" as a platform for personnel training cooperation
The reporter learned that the innovation and entrepreneurship competition of environmental protection industry is also an important part of the course. In the past five years, the total prize of the competition is nearly 500000 yuan. The expert judges from various fields of industry, University and research provide ideas and improvement suggestions for the entrepreneurial projects with professional vision and pertinent evaluation.
"The first round of on-site roadshow, 5 minutes of project display, 3 minutes of judges' questions, and the team with the top 4 scores will enter the second round. The second round of 60 second elevator sales focuses on the advantages and selling points of products, technologies and services. After scoring, the judges enter the 45 second instructor vote drawing link, and the audience on site will vote by secret ballot. The first round score + the second round of judge support score + the second round of audience support score, as the final score of the team, will determine the special prize and the first and second prizes. "
This is the final rule of the fifth innovation and entrepreneurship competition of environmental protection industry of Nanjing University. It is clear and difficult.
The launching ceremony of the fifth innovation and entrepreneurship competition of environmental protection industry of Nanjing University
The shortlisted projects also have their own points of view. The water-saving and energy storage Hotel Central air conditioning integrated system, kitchen waste distributed resource treatment solution, "resin, electrolysis combined" pool water purification and disinfection technology and devices, etc., involve a wide range of fields and many innovative technologies.
Taking the kitchen waste distributed resource treatment solution as an example, aiming at the kitchen waste without oil and salt, the team developed an efficient composting equipment. Through technical improvement, the team solved the problems such as long maturity time of similar products, high operation cost, and unreliable organic fertilizer quality.
In addition, the team developed a new type of biological transformation equipment for the kitchen waste with high oil and salt, which solved the problems of low technology automation level, high human cost, animal breeding safety, etc. "Our two products have low operation cost, no safety risk, no biogas slurry, biogas residue and other secondary wastes, and can truly and effectively utilize the organic matter in kitchen waste and kitchen waste." When it comes to product innovation, Chen Ke, a team member of environmental planning and management, is very proud.
This kind of "competition for practice" event will add another one in 2019. In May 2019, the school of environment of Nanjing University hosted the first urban water environment and water ecology science popularization creative competition, receiving more than 600 works from more than 60 universities in China.
The scene of the final of the first urban water environment and water ecology science popularization creative competition
Through these competitions, the school of environment of Nanjing University and 14 units including Beijing Water Group Co., Ltd. and China holding (Beijing) Environmental Protection Development Co., Ltd. established a talent training co construction and cooperation relationship, and built a practice base platform. In addition, Nanjing University's special job fair for environmental industry has also set up a platform for exchange of dual selection for job hunting, and practice + employment has opened up a channel for college students to apply for jobs.