Announcement of the 10th Anniversary of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (No. 1)

October 14, 2021

In 2021, the School of Biomedical Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University celebrates its tenth anniversary and will hold a series of events from December 3rd to December 10th. Here, we would like to extend our sincerest gratitude and highest respect to the leaders at all levels, friends from everywhere, and alumni at home and abroad who have been caring, guiding and supporting the construction and development of the college for a long time!

The School of Biomedical Engineering was established in 2011. Over the past ten years, it has been adhering to the spirit of "dare to be the first and pursue excellence" and is committed to cultivating academic innovation and industry leaders who serve people's health, have medical-industry cross-research capabilities, and have an international perspective. Relying on the world's leading engineering disciplines and national high-quality clinical medicine resources, the college has gradually formed the school-running characteristics of "medical-industry intersecting, internationalization, and clinical transformation", and ranked among the top three in previous discipline evaluations. In 2019, it became the only biomedical engineering major in China that passed ABET international certification. In January 2020, it was selected as the first batch of national first-class undergraduate major construction sites by the Ministry of Education.

The college adheres to the fundamental task of "teaching and cultivating people, cultivating people with morality", implementing cross-disciplinary training plan reforms and curriculum ideological and political reforms, and was selected as one of the first batch of innovation and entrepreneurship education demonstration colleges. Build a deep, multi-dimensional and all-round academic exchange platform, forming a training model that combines classroom teaching, extracurricular practice, and innovative competition. The college currently has 863 full-time students. The employment rate of graduates has remained stable at 100%. The overseas postgraduate study rate of undergraduates has exceeded 70%, the professional counterpart employment rate of postgraduates has reached 65%, and the academic employment rate of doctoral students at home and abroad has reached 60%. In recent years, student science and technology innovation has repeatedly achieved good results in top national competitions, winning the highest awards in the "Challenge Cup", "Creating Youth", and "Internet +" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for three consecutive times, achieving the "Grand Slam"!

In the future, the college will actively connect with the healthy China national strategy and the development positioning of Shanghai to build a global science and technology innovation center, gather multiple forces, explore the frontiers of disciplines, cultivate outstanding talents, and solve problems in disease diagnosis and treatment; under the core layout of "three horizontals and three verticals" , Based on a new stage of development, implement innovative development concepts, build a new development pattern, and shape emerging forces in dialogue with the world. The college will take the 10th anniversary celebration as an opportunity to hold various forms of academic and cultural activities. We sincerely invite mentors and guests from all walks of life to gather together to recall the past and prosperous years and look forward to the vigorous development of the future.