• “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge 2019 completed
• Provided tens of thousands talents of in engineering and science major to the Chinese industry
• Committed to the development of “New Engineer” with technical, managerial, commercial and humanistic capabilities, and cross-disciplinary competitiveness
The award ceremony for the “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge 2019, the 13th “Siemens Cup” event since 2006, was held today at University of Science and Technology Liaoning. As one of its many initiatives to promote development of intelligent manufacturing talents in China, Siemens supports this top-class event in the field of industrial education over the 13 years to pipeline tens of thousands of excellent reserve talents for various engineering and technological fields. At the same time, Siemens also introduced the concept of “New Engineer” into the Challenge to foster compound talents with multi-specialty and interdisciplinary in the era of digitalization.
“China has huge engineer resources, which will bring great advantages to the digital transformation of Chinese industry,” said Joerg Westerholt, General Manager of Factory Automation, Vice President of Digital Industries Siemens Ltd., China. “Siemens is committed to encouraging the development of New Engineers with technical, managerial, commercial and humanistic capabilities, as well as competitiveness in multi-specialty and interdisciplinary by hosting the Siemens Cup Challenge, to provide a steady stream of talent support for intelligent manufacturing in China.”
As a national-level event under the strategic cooperation framework signed by the Ministry of Education and Siemens, the “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge is co-organized by the Automation Teaching Steering Committee for Institutions of Higher Learning, Ministry of Education (MoE), Siemens and the China Simulation Federation to cultivate and select technical and innovation talents needed to develop intelligent manufacturing. Since its inception in 2006, the event has attracted more almost 50,000 students and engaged over 600 schools, accounting for 80% of China's science and engineering schools. It has already pipelined tens of thousands of excellent innovation-oriented engineering talents for the transformation and upgrading of China's industry. Last year, Siemens also joined with the organizing committee and partners of industrial and educational circles together to launch the “Intelligent Manufacturing New Engineer School Enterprise Alliance” and firstly released the talent development concept “New Engineer”.
This year, through levels of selection of 25 colleges and universities in 17 regions, more than 370 teams including over 1,000 teachers and students reached the final of nine competition items. With the technological development and changes in demand of enterprises, the event is adjusted in terms of competition items, rules and relevant training. For example, in engineering contest, it focuses on cultivating students’ ability in demand analysis, process design, project implementation and system optimization of the whole life cycle of the project. In research and development contest, students are trained to improve their ability in designing and manufacturing the whole process of hardware and software products and applications in the industrial field, including the whole process of originality, design, modeling, simulation, prototype and mass production.
Since 2005, Siemens has been promoting the Siemens Education Cooperation Program in China and boosting the country’s development of engineering talents in various forms such as school-enterprise cooperation on construction of laboratories, teacher training, textbook compilation and organization of events. In May 2016, Siemens and the MoE signed a new round of MoC on Education to cultivate innovation-oriented talents for the transformation and upgrading of China's industry under the framework of Sino-German cooperation. Up to 2018, Siemens had built more than 400 laboratories in China through cooperation with schools, trained over 4,000 teachers engaged in frontline teaching, compiled and published over 50 engineering textbooks.
