Introduction of High-level Personnel to the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering to Realize the “Nuclear Dream”

Publishing time:2015-06-16    Viewer:

In 2003, when the development of nuclear power at home and abroad was at a low point, North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) keenly perceived that the nuclear power industry would have broad prospects with the aggravation of energy crisis, and decisively chose to develop nuclear power as part of the construction of the “bulk power” system. Hence NCEPU has become one of the earliest universities in China with the major of nuclear science and engineering, the fifth after Tsinghua University.

In 2005, NCEPU signed cooperation agreements of joint education for nuclear power personnel with China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN). The agreements guarantee the provision of personnel that CGN needs, and also accelerate the development of the discipline of nuclear power science and engineering. Ministry of Education spoke highly of this mode of higher education.

In 2010, at the invitation of Liu Jizhen, President of NCEPU, Niu Fenglei, a PhD of University of California Berkeley in the US, who had done postdoctoral research in Los Alamos National Laboratory, came to NCEPU after giving up his post as an engineer and a technical expert in the Department of Global Nuclear Fuel, General Electric Company (GE). Ouyang Xiaoping, an academician, is the school-invited top expert. He is a leading figure in pulsed radiation field diagnoses in China. The team in the school under his leadership has already come to the top position in advanced technology of radiation detection.

The school requires that young teachers have PhD degrees and international and engineering background. The more than 30 teachers currently working in the school all have PhD degrees, of which one-third received their degrees in nuclear science and engineering from foreign elite universities, and another one-third had research experience in nuclear science and engineering. The school provides opportunities for young teachers to undertake some important scientific and research projects and establishes laboratories so as to develop their ability to consider scientific issues in a comprehensive way. This results in significant improvement in their innovative ability.

Teachers currently working in the school graduated from domestic and foreign elite universities, such as Karlsruher Institut für Technologie in Germany, Purdue University, University of Tsukuba in Japan, Tsinghua University and Peaking University. The specialties of the teachers cover all areas under the discipline of nuclear science and engineering.

With the policy of “making good use of existing talents, introducing much-needed talents and nurturing future talents”, the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering has seen remarkable achievements and is marching on the road to the realization of the “nuclear dream” of NCEPU.

                                                                                                         [Translator: Qin Jiya  Proof-reader: Dai Zhongxin]