The SJTU-Paris Elite Institute of Technology celebrates its 10th anniversary

On the afternoon of April 24th, the 10th anniversary conference of SJTU-Paris Elite Institute of Technology was grandly held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Fang Jun, Deputy Director-General and Inspector of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges of the Ministry of Education, David KIBLER, Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of France in Shanghai, Elisabeth CREPON, President of École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and Vice President of ParisTech, Eric LABAYE, President of ParisTech and Paris-Saclay University, Yang Zhenbin, Party Secretary of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Vice Presidents Xu Xuemin and Xi Lifeng attended the conference.

A Decade of Cooperation between SJTU and Paris Institute of Technology Led to Satisfactory Results in Fostering International Outstanding Engineers.

Ren Jia, an employee of Huawei’s overseas business department, recently addressed his former teachers, classmates, and alumni at the SJTU-Paris Elite Institute of Technology (SPEIT) in a video message from Congo on April 19. Ren was among the first class of graduates to receive a master’s degree from SPEIT after completing 6.5 years of study. Prior to joining Huawei, Ren worked as a new developer of liquefied gas carriers at the Shanghai Marine Diesel Engine Research Institute (SMDERI). He was one of the first batch of government-supported interns at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and also won the national championship and served as a promotion ambassador in a French speech competition. At SPEIT, all students participate in an overseas exchange program ranging from six months to 2.5 years, and complete at least six months of internship as an enterprise engineer in accordance with the French engineering training tradition.

Yu Haobo won the championship of a national French speech contest

SPEIT announced the renewal of its agreement with its French partner schools a decade after its inauguration by then French president François Hollande in Shanghai. Frédéric Toumazet, president of the French partner schools, stated that due to the higher education reforms in France, the Sino-French cooperation has expanded from the original four schools to include the top two higher education groups in France: École Polytechnique and Paris Sciences & Lettres-PSL University, thus opening up more opportunities for SPEIT to seek additional partners.

Students from SPEIT won the third place in the 2022 RoboMaster Eastern Regional Competition

During its early stages, SPEIT implemented a comprehensive French preparatory teaching model and formed a teaching team led by French advisors, maintaining the original framework of the French engineering education system.

Students and graduates of the college often describe their learning experience as “difficult”. The advanced mathematics courses require them to deduce and prove principles and theorems from the very beginning, in addition to mastering the “engineering languages” in Chinese, English, and French within just 6.5 years.

Representative of outstanding international students, Zhang Leying, featured on the home page of Télécom Paris

Valuing mathematics while emphasizing the cross-disciplinary ability of engineering and business management, the school has cultivated five cohorts of excellent postgraduates who received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SJTU and achieved the Diploma of Engineer proved by the Commission des titres d'ingénieur (CTI) as well.

Students carry out voluntary French teaching activities

As next year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, the school plans to strengthen its cooperation with its French partners. Zhang Wenming, the school’s dean, stated that after deepening the cooperation agreement within the new framework, SPEIT would continue to promote the joint training of Chinese and French Ph.D. students, strengthen research cooperation and academic exchanges, and establish a scientific research cooperation committee.