More than 1,700 "future engineers" in Shanghai compete on the same stage to respond to real engineering challenges with wisdom and action

China News Service, Shanghai, November 7 (Reporter Chen Jing) The 23rd Shanghai Future Engineer Competition (hereinafter referred to as the competition) ushered in the municipal finals on the 7th. 979 teams and more than 1,700 students from 16 districts competed to respond to real engineering challenges with wisdom and action.

This competition has seven series and 14 competition categories for structural, architectural, mechanical, software, electromechanical engineers, aerospace, and industrial designers. The competition is jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Science Education Development Foundation, Shanghai Science and Technology Art Education Center, and Shanghai Xuhui District Education Bureau.

This year, the Architectural Engineer Track has a new "Urban Symbiosis" light art installation project, which is committed to promoting the cross-border integration of technology, art and humanities, and guiding young people to think about the deep relationship between engineering and cities, people and space. The project uses "joy" as the creative theme, encouraging students to start from real life experience, use cutting-edge technologies such as sound and light interaction, digital art, and artificial intelligence to design lighting installations that can coexist with the urban environment and empathize with public emotions, vividly interpreting the creative concept of "let technology have warmth, let art have logic, and let the city have memory."

The software engineer track uses the "Wormhole Online Academy" as the basic scenario, introduces the new concept of "future classroom", and deeply integrates real education scenarios with software engineering practice. Participating teams need to conduct in-depth research on mainstream online learning software, systematically summarize and analyze data, accurately identify the key needs of future classrooms, and put forward practical optimization suggestions. Finally, they need to design and develop software to solve specific teaching problems and achieve a complete closed loop from demand insight to product implementation.

Chips are the core cornerstone of the information age. The structural engineer track of the competition has newly upgraded the "Roller Coaster" project, specially designed the theme of "Yunyou IC", using mechanical motion devices as the carrier. The participating team members need to focus on the key nodes in the birth and development of integrated circuits, design the track layout in a limited space, control the path and speed of the ball, and demonstrate major breakthroughs in the iteration of integrated circuit technology through level settings, integrating engineering mechanics, structural design, and knowledge of the history of science and technology.

Since its inception in 2004, the competition has gone through more than 20 years of hard work and has attracted nearly one million young people to actively participate. The competition starts with hands-on exploration in real scenarios and guides students to truly realize "learning by doing", "learning by using" and "learning by creating" in the complete chain of raising questions, designing solutions, practical verification and iterative optimization.