With results announced on May 18, the 17th International Engineering Mechanics Contest awarded 5 first prizes and 1 second prize to contestants from the School of Civil Engineering, the School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics and the Institute of Rail Transit, Tongji University. The number of first prizes made Tongji University the No.1 participating university tied with Tsinghua University.
Co-initiated by multiple Russian universities in 2005, the International Engineering Mechanics Contest is held every April at the Belarusian State University of Transport in Gomel, Belarus. Having running for 17 consecutive years, the Contest boasts a wide-reaching influence in the realm of mechanics both at home and abroad, and is widely recognized as a formidable mechanics theory competition full of innovative and challenging tasks. Contestants are expected to master not only the theoretical knowledge about mechanics but the mathematical skills as well.
Held on April 14th by means of online participation, the Contest of this year was attended by 245 contestants from more than 50 universities, including Northwestern Polytechnical University, Southeast University, Sun Yat-sen University, The Air Force Engineering University, Tongji University, Tsinghua University, (top 6 in the Asian Division of the 2nd International Engineering Mechanics Contest) and other universities from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
According to an official, the School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics has been earnestly carrying through Tongji's comprehensive reform to push for "three-dimensional education". The Basic Mechanics Teaching and Research Group and the National Demonstration Center for Experimental Mechanics have been putting in relentless efforts to cultivate students' learning and innovation ability and to provide academic guidance for students. Based on the theoretical mechanics scores of the 2020 Shanghai Mechanics Competition and the 2021 Zhou Peiyuan Mechanics Competition in-school trials, the School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics singled out 6 best-performing students, namely WU Junhong and TONG Shanghang from the School of Civil Engineering, SONG Zenan from the Institute of Rail Transit, and ZHANG Zichong, LU Yao and TANG Mi from the School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Eventually, WU Junhong (5th place), TONG Shanghang (8th place), SONG Zenan, ZHANG Zichong and LU Yao reaped the first prizes, and TANG Mi clinched the second prize. (Text by: ZHENG Honghao)
From left to right: TONG Shanghang, WU Junhong, ZHANG Zichong, LU Yao, TANG Mi, SONG Zenan
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