17:20 – 17:40
Project-based Talent Development for MEMS Industry – a case study
In this talk, we present the R&D projects, emploment placement, and scientific publication outcomes of MEMS talent development under a joint scheme amongst Melon Tech, Shanghai University and the National Innovation Center par Excellence. With this joint scheme, graduate students from Shanghai University engage in industrial R&D projects identified by Melon Tech, a Hi-Tech MEMS startup company, with partial Scholarship earmarked to.encourage project-based learning. The results suggest that the scheme is much welcome by the students, the collaboration industrial partner, as well as the broad MEMS industry in China.
Yuandong Gu, Ph.D.
National Innovation Center par Excellence
Prof. Alex Gu is a Vice President of the National Innovation Center par Excellence (NICE) . Prior to his current post, Prof. Gu was the founding Dean of the School of Microelectronics at Shanghai University, the Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) Singapore, and a Principal Scientist at Honeywell International, Inc. (Minnesota, USA). Prof. Gu brings 20+ years of experience in R&D, Education, Management and Commercialization. Prof. Gu’s research interest is in the field of MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), primarily in Aluminum Nitride (AlN)-based functional thin films and related MEMS sensors. Prof. Gu is a class 1998 PhD alumni of the University of Minnesota.
National Innovation Center par Excellence
Company Profile
The National Innovation Center par Excellence (NICE) is a comprehensive innovation center approved by the Ministry of Science & Technology of PRC, jointly built by Shanghai municipality and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui provinces. Shanghai Yangtze Delta Innovation Institute is the headquarter of NICE.
NICE is driven to be responsive to technical demands from industry, thereby bridging the “valley of funding death” that lies between applied research and commercialization.As a top non-profit, application-oriented research organization and a high-tech investor in China, NICE advances the utilisation and commercialisation of technology research and scientific results in commerce and society.
NICE brings together universities, business, talents, science and technology to build a global innovation network and ecosystem to support the sustainable development of the Yangtze Delta industry.
