Recently, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education has released the list of winners for the 18th Beijing Disitinguished Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions and the 6th Beijing Disitinguished Young Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions. All five recommended teachers of Beihang University were awarded. Among them, Prof. Wang Zulin from the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Prof. Wang Yandong from the School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, and Prof. Zhu Ying from the School of Chemistry won the Beijing Disitinguished Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions. Prof. Liu Hu from the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering and Prof. Xie Huiyuan from the School of Marxism were honored with the Beijing Disitinguished Young Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions.
As one of the most important teaching awards in Beijing with wide recognition and influence, the award aims to give full play to the exemplary role of model teachers, deepen education and teaching reform, and promote the development of education quality. Up to now, a total of 55 teachers from Beihang University have been awarded Beijing Disitinguished Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions and 11 teachers have been awarded Beijing Disitinguished Young Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions.
Prof. Wang Zulin, Winner of Beijing Disitinguished Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions
Prof. Wang Zulin has been engaged in teaching and research work for 33 years. He mainly carries out basic and applied research in image processing and modern communication theory and technology. He is now a member of the Teaching Steering Committee of Electronic Information Specialty of the Ministry of Education, the deputy director of the Professional Committee of Detection and Guidance Technology, Chinese Society of Astronautics, a member of the Teaching Steering Committee of Beihang University, and the responsible professor of the electrical course cluster of the School of Future Aerospace Technology. He once worked as an expert group member of the National High-tech Research and Development Programs.
Prof. Wang is in charge of the national first-class undergraduate major construction site, a university-level high-quality curriculum, and university-level first-class undergraduate courses, and teaches Image Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing and other compulsory courses. In teaching, he always pays attention to the combination of imparting knowledge and cultivating innovation consciousness. Under the support of the key teaching reform projects of the university, he carries out small-size class teaching reform and practice, and makes use of the resources of the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, such as Aerospace Electronic Information, to promote students’ practical ability. Under the New Engineering Education Reform of the Ministry of Education, Prof. Wang promotes the reform of training programs with intelligence as the background. At the same time, he focuses on internationalization in talent training, and carries out in-depth exchanges and cooperation with internationally renowned universities such as the University of Nottingham, the University of Sydney and Lund University.
Prof. Wang has won two second prizes of National Teaching Achievements, one first prize of Technical Invention of the Ministry of Education, three first prizes of Beijing Teaching Achievement, Educational Innovation Pacesetter of Beijing Federation of Trade Unions, the first prize of faculty fellowships provided by AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd., etc. He has published ten papers on education reform and presided over the New Engineering Education Reform of the Ministry of Education with an excellent conclusion.
Prof. Wang Yandong, Winner of Beijing Disitinguished Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions
Prof. Wang Yandong has been engaged in teaching and research work for 28 years. She is now the leader of the teaching team of the national first-class undergraduate course Principle of Automatic Control and the leader of Beijing Outstanding Undergraduate Education Team. Prof. Wang is mainly engaged in the research of control theory, inertial navigation, integrated navigation and guidance technology.
Since 1994, Prof. Wang has been teaching at the university, always committed to teaching, educating, and meticulously practicing the mission and responsibility of an academic. In the course of teaching, she has actively carried out course construction and reform, and her course Principle of Automatic Control has been awarded Beijing High-quality Course, National High-quality Course, National Bilingual Teaching Model Course and the first batch of national first-class undergraduate courses. Prof. Wang has edited and published four textbooks, two of which are textbooks listed in the 11th Five-Year National Plan for General Higher Education, and she has co-edited five textbooks. As the main author of the teaching achievement Teaching Reform and Practice for Course of Principle of Automatic Control, she won the first prize of Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievement.
She has been awarded the titles of Beijing Advanced Individual on Teachers' Ethics, Beihang Distinction Award for Moral Achievement and Talent Cultivation, Beihang Advanced Teacher, Ten Best Teachers Award of the "I Love My Teacher" event, and Outstanding CPC Member of Beihang University.
Prof. Zhu Ying, Winner of Beijing Disitinguished Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions
Prof. Zhu Ying has been in the front line of teaching and research for nearly 30 years, mainly engaged in the development and application of functional nanomaterials. She is currently a member of the Committee of Women Chemists of Chinese Chemical Association and an expert of the national key special project.
As the principal of the chemistry course cluster and the Basic Chemistry (1) course in Beihang University, Prof. Zhu undertook several key projects of central universities and university-level education reform. With the educational philosophy of integrating science and education to cultivate innovation, she has built a chemistry curriculum with air and space characteristics, and her course, Basic Chemistry (1), was awarded as Quality Undergraduate Course in Beijing. Prof. Zhu has also edited and published teaching materials such as Introduction to Aerospace Materials Chemistry and Bioinspired Intelligent Nanostructured Materials, and transformed scientific research results into undergraduate teaching resources. In recent years, the undergraduates under her guidance have won more than 20 national and provincial-level science and technology awards. As one of the instructors of Student Science and Technology Volunteer Service Team of Beihang University, she led the team to carry out science and innovation education for rural primary and secondary schools in Zhongyang County, Shanxi Province, and won the title of “Best Practice Team” of National College Students Top 100 Summer Practice Team 2021.
Prof. Zhu has been awarded the second prize of the National Natural Science Award, the first prize of the Beijing Science and Technology Award, the New Century Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education, the Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award, the Beihang Distinction Award for Moral Achievement and Talent Cultivation, the Beihang Advanced Teacher, and Ten Best Teachers Award of the “I Love My Teacher” event.
Prof. Liu Hu, Winner of Beijing Disitinguished Young Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions
Prof. Liu Hu is the executive deputy director of the Department of Aircraft Design, the director of the national first-class offline undergraduate course Aircraft Conceptual Design, the national virtual simulation experimental teaching first-class undergraduate course Stealth Aircraft Exploration and Design, the Beijing curriculum ideological and political demonstration course Classic Aircraft Design Case Analysis, and Aerospace Force Operation and Mission Simulation, the resource sharing course of University Alliance in Shahe Higher Education Park. Prof. Liu is also the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Aircraft Advanced Design Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the deputy director of the National Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching Center of Aeronautic Science and Technology, the director general of the Emergency Rescue Branch of the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an editor of the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.
In the past 16 years, Prof. Liu has been in charge of the teaching reform of the core general disciplines of flight vehicle design and engineering, such as Overall Design of Aircraft. He proposed and developed a team design competition model for students from the school to the whole country, created a multi-dimensional series of virtual simulation experiment support system, and led the establishment of an intracampus-intercampus-international joint quality resource course cluster. Prof. Liu is also the editor-in-chief of the textbook Overall Design of Aircraft. Jointly prepared by seven universities and two industrial departments: Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Ltd. and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd, this textbook was evaluated as a high-quality undergraduate textbook of Beijing universities, recommended by the Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education for Higher Education in the field of aerospace, and listed in the 14th Five-Year National Plan of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
He has been awarded the special prize of Beijing Teaching Achievement, four first prizes of Beijing Teaching Achievement Award, the advanced individual of “Youth Serving Country” Capital Student Volunteers at Social Practices in Summer Vacation, Beihang Outstanding Young Teacher Award, and the Beihang Distinction Award for Moral Achievement and Talent Cultivation.
Prof. Xie Huiyuan, Winner of Beijing Disitinguished Young Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions
Prof. Xie Huiyuan has been engaged in teaching and research work for 15 years, and has been appointed as the researcher of the Research Center of Ethics and Moral Construction of Renmin University of China, the researcher of the Institute for Ethics and Religions Studies of Tsinghua University, and a member of the Academic Committee of the Research Base of Party Construction in Colleges and Universities in Beijing. She also serves as a director of the China Association for Ethical Studies, the Beijing Society of Ethics, the Marx and Engels Research Association of China, etc. Prof. Xie is mainly engaged in research in ethics, political philosophy, and ideological and political education in colleges and universities.
Prof. Xie always adheres to the mission of moral education, innovates thematic and hybrid teaching reform, and presides over three provincial and ministerial-level teaching reform projects. As the subject leader, Prof. Xie leads the team to crack the key and difficult teaching issues, and promotes the application of achievements through publishing textbooks, papers, recording MOOC and keynote presentations with multiple dimensions. She has taught ten undergraduate and graduate courses, built a three-dimensional teaching system that integrates knowledge, methodology, ability and literacy, and created a learning, interpretative and open classroom. She was awarded the Beijing Excellent Teacher and Beijing Excellent Teacher of Ideological and Political Theory Classes in Universities (the first batch), and won the Basic Teaching Skills Competition of Ideological and Political Theory Course in Beijing Universities twice.
Prof. Xie presided over and completed eight national, provincial and ministerial-level projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, Beijing Social Science Foundation and key projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. She has published nearly 80 teaching and research papers in English and Chinese, and edited five textbooks and five monographs and translations. She has received eight provincial and ministerial awards, including the second prize of the 13th Session of Outstanding Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Achievement Award, the Beijing Young Talent, and the Outstanding Achievement Award for Ideological and Political Education for University Students in Beijing.
Reviewed by Li Jianwei
Edited by Jia Aiping
Translated by Liang Xiaochun
