School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Successfully Completes 2025 Undergraduate Summer Overseas Internship Program
Recently, 26 undergraduate students from the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, led by Professor Liu Tonggang, went to EPF Engineering School in France for a two-week summer overseas internship. Founded in 1925, EPF Engineering School is a comprehensive engineering institution renowned for its teaching quality, international openness, and close ties with enterprises. It established a cooperative relationship with our university in 2023. This overseas internship program, entitled "Design the Future of Smart Industry", mainly included activities such as thematic academic lectures, on-site internship practice, visits to industrial museums, and French cultural experiences.
In the part of thematic academic lectures, the students attended lectures on cutting-edge topics in mechanical engineering, industrial robots, and advanced manufacturing. They learned about the latest developments in mechanical engineering disciplines such as digital design, industrial automation, and intelligent manufacturing; studied the structural composition, optimal design, and multi-machine collaborative control of industrial robots; and mastered advanced manufacturing technologies such as lean production, rapid prototyping, and micro-nano processing.
In the internship practice session, through 3D printing experiments, the students mastered 3D modeling methods, used high-performance printing equipment, and completed the processing and production of complex structural parts. Through the robot autonomous obstacle avoidance training project, they completed the structural assembly, perception control, programming and debugging of small AGVs, enabling AGVs to autonomously avoid obstacles in complex environments. By visiting the 3D Motion Laboratory, they learned how to use multiple high-definition cameras to build a 3D capture field and achieve high-precision motion digitization based on machine vision and deep learning algorithms. Through a visit to the construction site of EIFFAGE Construction, they gained an understanding of the management methods of complex engineering projects, intelligent operation and maintenance of equipment, and safety assurance measures.
In addition, the students also visited the Paris Museum of Science and Industry. The museum houses more than 2,400 historically significant innovative inventions, divided into seven series: scientific instruments, materials, energy, machinery, architecture, communications, and transportation. Each exhibit bears the mark of human scientific exploration and technological breakthroughs. During the visit, the students observed carefully, listened attentively to the explanations, and in the "dialogue" with historical inventions, intuitively felt the clear context of modern industry from its infancy to vigorous development, and deeply realized the profound impact of technological innovation on social progress.
Through this overseas internship program, students of our college not only improved their professional theoretical knowledge and practical ability, but also experienced the rich and colorful French culture firsthand, broadening their international horizons.
In recent years, the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering has actively explored international school-running models, especially in terms of overseas internships. It has successively established multiple overseas internship bases, such as the University of Kentucky in the United States, the XCMG Group European R&D Center, the EPF Engineering School in France, and the Zijin MiningPeggy Copper-Gold Mine in Serbia. It has also taken various measures to raise funding, providing strong support for the overseas internship practice of our students.
