1. National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest
The National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest is one of the undergraduate academic competitions advocated by the Ministry of Education, and is a mass scientific and technological activity for undergraduates, aiming to promote colleges and universities to promote the curriculum system and content reform of information and electronic subjects. It is helpful for colleges and universities to implement quality education, train undergraduates' practical innovation and basic capabilities and their humanistic spirit of teamwork and learning style of integrating theory with practice; it is helpful to train students' engineering practice quality and improve their capabilities to carry out electronic design and production for practical problems; and it is helpful to attract and encourage the wide young students to actively participate in extra curricular scientific and technological activities, and create conditions for outstanding talents to stand out.
The characteristic of the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest is its close integration with the curriculum system and content reform of related majors of colleges and universities to promote the latter's curriculum teaching, teaching reform and laboratory construction. The characteristic of the contest is its close integration with the learning style of integrating theory with practice. The contest contents include both theoretical design and practical production to comprehensive test and strengthen participating students' theoretical foundation and practical innovation capabilities.
The National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest is jointly sponsored by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and the Department of Personnel of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology which are responsible for leading the contest across the country. Local contests are under the unified leading of the local education committees (departments, bureaus). In order to ensure the smooth development of the contest, the national and divisional contest organizing committees and expert groups are established.
Each participating team consists of three students. Full-time school-based students and college student are all eligible to register for the contest.
The National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest is held in September of odd-numbered years with a contest period of four days (the specific date will be notified whereupon). In even-numbered non-contest years, the National Contest Organizing Committee and relevant divisions organize national thematic contests. At the same time, divisions and universities are positively encouraged to organize divisional and university-level undergraduate electronic design contests according to their own conditions.
The contest adopts the national unified proposition and the divisional organization form, and is carried out in the "semi-closed and relatively centralized" organization method. During the contest, students may consult relevant paper or network technical materials, and students in the team can collectively discuss the design idea, determine the design plan, work with division of responsibility and solidarity and cooperation, and independently complete the contest tasks with the team as the basic unit; during the contest, neither guidance nor direction in any forms by any teachers or other personnel is allowed; during the contest, participants are not allowed to discuss with any other members outside their teams. Participating universities shall concentrate the participating students in a laboratory for the contest for the convenience of organizing personnel to inspect. In order to ensure the contest, all equipment and components required for the contest shall be provided by the participating universities.
The national contest proposition is uniformly assigned by the national contest proposition experts based on the wide proposition solicitation of divisions. The national contest uses two sets of topics, namely, the undergraduate group topic and the higher vocational and college student group topic. Participating undergraduates can only choose the undergraduate group topic.
After each national contest, divisional excellent participating teams shall be recommended after divisional award (first-level award) to participate in the national award (second-level award). The organizing committee of each division shall invite experts to form a divisional jury to evaluate the first, second and third prizes of the division, with the proportion of awards generally not exceeding one-third of the total number of participating teams. In addition, for successful participants, the division may issue a "successful participation award" or a "successful participation certificate as appropriate.
The national contest sets first and second prizes according to groups. The number of award-winning teams of the undergraduate group and the higher vocational and college student group shall not exceed 8% of the actual participating teams that year, and in principle, the proportion of first and second prizes shall be 3:7. The contest issues the national unified award-winning certificates.
2. National College Mechanical Innovation Competition
The National College Mechanical Innovation Competition is a knowledge innovation and design competition for college students in mechanical disciplines approved by the Ministry of Education, sponsored by the College Mechanical Discipline Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, and jointly held by National Mechanical Basic Course Steering Committee, Mechanical Design Teaching Research Association and Mechanical Principle Teaching Research Association. The mechanical innovation design competition is a public welfare science and technology activity for university students, with the purpose of training university students' innovative spirit, cooperative consciousness, broaden their horizons, improving their creative design capabilities, engineering practice capabilities and comprehensive design capabilities, and promoting the teaching and learning of the mechanical discipline, and strengthening the connection between teaching and industry.
The mechanical innovation design competition is generally completed in four stages. The first stage is the creativity of products, which requires carrying out many market research and patent inquiries to basically determine the design goals and functions to be achieved; the second stage is the specific scheme design, which must go through the establishment, calculation, exclusion, and re-establishment of specific schemes one after another, and finally get the optimal design scheme; the third stage is the sample processing; and the fourth stage is the preparation of the instructions and the defense.
3. National Undergraduate Engineering Training Integration Ability Competition
The National Undergraduate Engineering Training Integration Ability Competition is a national undergraduate science and technology innovation practice competition activity advocated by the Ministry of Education. It is a national undergraduate science and technology innovation competition with a relatively great influence and it aims to promote the reform of higher education talent training mode and experimental teaching, continuously improve the talent training quality, and serve the talent training in colleges and universities, assist in the education teaching quality and guide students' entrepreneurship and employment at the same time.
The competition is held every two years and is open to school-based undergraduates of various universities across the country. It adopts the three-level competition system of the university, the province (or division formed by a combination of several provinces) and the country. Winners of the provincial competitions or divisional competitions can register to participate in the national final after being approved by the provincial or regional education bureaus. The national competition sets the first, second and third prizes, as well as excellence award, excellent organization award, excellent guiding teacher and other awards.
4. Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling
The Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling and Computer Application Contest is a contest jointly held by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for students in colleges and universities across the country. The purpose of the contest is to improve students' capabilities to use mathematical modeling and computer technology to solve practical problems and train talents with innovative spirit.
The mathematical contest in modeling is generally held in September each year with the contest period of 72 hours, and it is an open contest. Each participating team consists of three members who independently complete all the work of the paper. During the contest, on the premise of not violating the regulations of the contest, students can consult any books or materials (including looking up materials through the Internet), use any experimental means, make necessary social surveys, and use computer and any necessary software, and so on. The mathematical contest in modeling takes the maximum play of students' creativity as the first purpose.
5. Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)
The Mathematical Contest in Modeling is an international mathematical contest in modeling for undergraduates jointly held by the American Mathematical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the National Security Agency, and is the "originator" of all undergraduate mathematical contests in modeling around the world, including the "Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling" (CUMCM). The contest started in 1985, and over 700 teams participate in it from over ten countries nowadays. The awards for the contest include special award, first prize, second prize and successful participation award. The contest does not give bonuses and it is non-profit. The papers that won the Special Award will be published in professional mathematics journals in the United States.
The contest allows participants to use computer, software packages, textbooks, magazine and manuals and other various external resources within the specified time (usually three to four days) to give solutions of the contest problems in the form of papers. The contents of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling are the hot topics of scientific and technological research in the real world today. The problems are difficult and solutions are made in English, with high writing requirements.
6. National English Contest for College Students
National English Contest for College Students (NECCS for short) is the unique English comprehensive ability contest for college students approved by the relevant departments of the Ministry of Education, jointly sponsored by Advisory Board for College Foreign Language Teaching and College English Teaching & Research Association of China, and undertaken by the Periodical Office of English Counseling Paper. It is a national college English discipline competition and aims to implement the spirit of the college English teaching reform of the Ministry of Education, promote the comprehensive improvement of college students' English level, stimulate their interest in learning English and encourage college students with excellent English learning performance. The competition can show the results of college English teaching reform in colleges and universities and help students lay a good English foundation, improve their capabilities to use English comprehensively and promote college English teaching across the country to a new level.
The competition contents mainly include the basic English knowledge and the capabilities in five aspects of reading, listening, speaking, writing and translation that shall be mastered in the college English learning stage. The competition objects are undergraduates of all grades of non-English majors in colleges and universities in the country. It is carried out in two stages of the preliminary competition and the final, which both adopt the national unified proposition and are carried out in writing. The examination papers and tapes for listening are uniformly made by the Office of the National Competition Organizing Committee.
