Recently, the evaluation results of the 18th "Challenge Cup" National Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition for College Students "Technology Reward" special competition and "Black Technology" special competition were announced. The NEU team won one national first prize and one second prize in the "Technology Reward" special competition; and received 2 constant star-level awards (first prize), 1 planetary-level award (second prize), and 2 satellite-level awards (third prize) in the "Black Technology" special competition, creating the best record in the history of NEU in the "Challenge Cup" National Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition for College Students
The theme of the "Technology Reward" special competition is "you pick, I'll fight", adhering to the idea of "oriented to the major national needs, the competition and synergy mechanism as a means of solving practical problems”. The idea of focusing on the "bottle-neck" technology, by the method of "government and enterprises to publish a list, the competition to reveal the list, signing contracts upon unveiling the list". Enterprises and others raise demands and questions, and the organizing committee distributes "hero posts" to universities, and student teams challenge and unveil rankings. This competition has 21 cutting-edge, applicable, and highly competitive topics released by Huawei Cloud Computing Technology Co., Ltd., China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, and other units. Among them. The work of Yang Ruimin and Hao Xingyu, led by teachers Sun Liangliang and Guo Ge from Qinhuangdao Branch, titled "Research on Optimization Strategies for Efficient Fine Chemical Sequence Scheduling Decision for Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction - Against the Background of Steelmaking Continuous Casting Production Process", and the work of Chen Jingran and Du Binghang, led by teachers Li Haifeng and Huang Liping from the main school, titled "Digital System for Ultimate Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction Technology in Sintering Process", Received first and second prizes in the national awards for the selected topics of China Baowu Steel Group Co., Ltd.
The "Black Technology" special competition aims to explore physical objects or technologies that are targeted at cutting-edge fields, have high precision and cutting-edge colors, or change people's production and lifestyle, have certain disruptive and surpassing effects on existing scientific and technological achievements, and make people feel unexpected, forward-looking, innovative, and applicable (or application prospects). In this competition, the NEU team won a total of 2 constant star-level awards (first prize), 1 planetary-level award (second prize), and 2 satellite-level awards (third prize).
It is reported that the "Challenge Cup" National Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition for College Students is a high-level, authoritative, and exemplary national college students' extracurricular academic practice competition jointly organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the All-China Federation of Students, and other units. It is an important national level scientific and technological innovation competition in the "Ranking List of National College Student Competitions" of the Chinese Association of Higher Education, it is also one of the three highest level seven-star events recognized by our school's "Star Classification Table for Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Competition of NEU Students". Among them, the "Technology Reward" special competition and the "Black Technology" special competition are important components of the "Challenge Cup" National Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition for College Students. The national final competition will be held at Guizhou University at the end of October.
