Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, although its strength and fame are not as good as Zhejiang University of Technology, which is very close to it, but as a university developed from silk disciplines, its textile science and engineering, mechanical engineering and other disciplines have significant advantages. The president of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology is also a well-known fiber material expert in China and academician Chen Wenxing of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Speaking of this academician president, the relationship with Zhejiang University of Science and Technology is really deep. When he was young, he studied at Zhejiang Silk Institute of Technology, the predecessor of Zhejiang University of Technology, and after graduation, he stayed on to teach, growing from an ordinary teacher to the school's principal, becoming a role model for young people to strive for progress.
During this period, while engaged in teaching management, he devoted himself to the research of fiber materials that he liked, and repeatedly achieved breakthrough research results, which made great contributions to improving the overall quality of raw silk in China and realizing the high-efficiency and energy-saving production of polyester industrial yarn.
Today, let's meet this president independently trained by Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, a scholar with high achievements in academic research and teaching management.
Chen Wenxing, president of Zhejiang University of Technology
A lifelong acquaintance with Zhejiang University of Technology
Shaoxing, Zhejiang is a famous cultural hometown, since the ancient masters of the spirit, the cultural heritage is very deep, and at the same time famous for silk. Chen Wenxing was born here in 1964.
Perhaps influenced by the rich local culture and the developed silk industry, Chen Wenxing has had a strong interest in silk craftsmanship since he was a child. When he was in college, Chen Wenxing chose Zhejiang Silk Institute of Technology (now Zhejiang Sci-Tech University) in Hangzhou to study silk making in the silk engineering department of the school. Perhaps at that time, the young Chen Wenxing did not expect that his life would be deeply associated with this school and the silk industry.
At that time, Zhejiang Silk Institute of Technology was a university with silk industry and textile engineering as its characteristic disciplines, bringing together many famous teachers and advanced research equipment in the field of textile science and engineering in China, and the characteristic discipline was strong. In the year he was admitted to university, Chen Wenxing was not yet 16 years old, and his immature face was full of the desire to understand the unknown world, so he devoted himself to professional study.
Former Zhejiang Silk Institute of Technology
Here, Chen Wenxing completed courses from undergraduate to master's degree one after another. In 1987, after receiving his master's degree, he chose to teach at the university and became a teaching assistant in the mechanical and electrical engineering department of the school. The 23-year-old Chen Wenxing, when he was full of spirit and confidence in the future, continued his favorite silk-making process research while teaching. However, with the deepening of his research, he also slowly found that his professional level still has a lot of room for improvement, and he longs for a larger platform to learn and improve himself.
In 1992, Chen Wenxing, who had outstanding performance, won the Bao Zhaolong Bao Yugang Chinese Student Scholarship and went to Shinshu University in Japan to study functional polymers. In the following years, he first went to Zhejiang University to study for a doctoral degree in polymer chemistry and physics, and then went to Shinshu University to visit the Department of Functional Polymers, successfully passing the thesis defense to obtain a doctorate degree in biological function engineering.
At this time, Chen Wenxing, who became a doctor of science and engineering, was already a well-known expert in the field of fiber materials at home and abroad, not only naturally promoted to a professor at his alma mater, but also served as a visiting researcher and professor of advanced fiber science at Kyoto Polytechnic Fiber University in Japan.
Subsequently, Zhejiang Silk Institute of Technology was upgraded to Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, and Chen Wenxing served as the deputy dean and dean of the School of Materials and Textiles. Until 2016, he was appointed as the president of Zhejiang University of Technology, and to this day, his fate with his alma mater continues.
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
Academic leader in fiber materials
Since he began to study silk making at the age of 15, Chen Wenxing has been committed to teaching and scientific research in the field of fiber material science and engineering for more than 40 years, and has achieved a lot of innovative research results in the high-quality preparation of silk fiber and the high-efficiency and energy-saving preparation of polyester industrial yarn.
As an engineer, Chen Wenxing has a meticulous spirit and a rigorous and meticulous attitude. When he conducts scientific research and technical research, he often forgets to eat and sleep, and staying up all night to solve a difficult problem is a common thing for him.
Even after serving as the school's president and being elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chen Wenxing still likes to stay in the laboratory, he needs to deal with official business during the day, and at night he will definitely find time to discuss the project with the team, inquire about the project research process, and then participate in the project research.
Silk industry is an applied discipline, he hopes to solve the technical problems encountered by the silk industry and even the entire textile industry through his research results, and promote the development of the textile industry. To this end, he once traveled by train to national reeling factories in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places, going deep into the industry market to understand what pain points enterprises have. After understanding the needs of the industry, Chen Wenxing locked himself in the laboratory again, repeatedly thinking and testing.
Chen Wenxing in the laboratory
After more than 20 years of research, Chen Wenxing proposed the "silkworm cocoon high-temperature touch steaming pre-treatment technology", which successfully solved the problem that there will always be "defects" after the cocoon is made into raw silk, which greatly improved the quality of silk, and he also won the "Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award".
However, he did not take this technology for himself, but was introduced and promoted by thousands of silk reeling factories across the country for free, becoming one of the most widely used technologies in the silk industry. Because in his view, his research is to serve the country and society, and should not become a tool for someone to make profits.
Later, Chen Wenxing invented a new preparation method for polyester industrial yarn, which enabled the mainland to leap to an international leading position in this field. He has been at the forefront of fiber preparation technology for 40 years, and has undertaken more than 30 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program, and won the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award after the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
Chen Wenxing's research not only promotes the international leading position of related industrial technologies, but also wins him great honors. He not only served as the head of the Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Preparation Technology of the Ministry of Education, but also was named the "Sixth National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent" and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. This is a concentrated recognition of his achievements in the field of technical research.
Chen Wenxing was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Become the head of BIT
Chen Wenxing has not only made great achievements in academic research, but also has unique insights and in-depth understanding in cultivating students and school management.
As early as when he was a teacher at Zhejiang Silk Institute of Technology, his classes were well received by students. He is good at guiding students to choose and design topics and research directions that suit them according to their abilities and personality characteristics. When students encounter problems, they can give targeted suggestions from a professional point of view, which often makes students suddenly open.
After becoming the president of Zhejiang University of Technology, Chen Wenxing implemented the talent training reform plan based on his years of teaching experience and the actual situation of the school. He proposed that Zhejiang University of Science and Technology should cultivate high-quality "three innovation" talents, and cultivate innovative, creative and entrepreneurial talents with broad foundation, solid professionalism and outstanding ability.
Chen Wenxing attended the event
Starting from his own experience of becoming a talent, Chen Wenxing has implemented a large number of effective measures to cultivate application-oriented innovative talents by combining the professional and disciplinary characteristics of Zhejiang University of Technology. In recent years, under the leadership of Chen Wenxing, Zhejiang Institute of Technology has made progress at a speed visible to the naked eye.
On the one hand, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology has strengthened basic research, accelerated breakthroughs in core technologies in the industry, and built more than 20 national, provincial and ministerial science and technology innovation platforms and more than 10 local industrial research institutes; On the other hand, the school puts the subject team in the industrial agglomeration area, focuses on technical problems, adopts a diversified talent evaluation mechanism, and encourages application-oriented researchers to write their papers on the "factory floor".
These measures are promoting the development of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. It is hoped that in the future, with the joint efforts of Chen Wenxing and all teachers and students, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology will continue to make progress, be selected as "Double First-class", and create a world-class discipline with remarkable characteristics.