On November 21st, President Bai Haili and Vice President Wang Zhongliang of Tianjin Chengjian University (TCU) warmly welcomed a delegation of 7 professors from Poland, including representatives from Bialystok University of Technology (BUT) and Cracow University of Technology (CUT) who were visiting TCU to deliver lectures at International School of Engineering (ISE). Director and Deans of the International Cooperation Office, ISE, School of Architecture, School of Civil Engineering, and School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering attended the meeting.
President Bai extended a warm welcome to the visiting professors from Poland, recalling the 10-year history of friendly cooperation among the three universities. He stated the commitment to the principles of friendly consultation, shared construction, and win-win cooperation. The collaboration resulted in the innovative establishment of ISE, a model of educational cooperation between China and Poland. President Bai expressed hope that the visit by the Polish professors would deepen understanding and cooperation among relevant faculty members, enhance TCU students' understanding of the Polish educational system, improve the educational quality of ISE, thus enhancing the international influence of the three universities.
Darius Andraka, Vice Dean of ISE from BUT, and Katarzyna Łakomy, Vice Director of Landscape Architecture of ISE from CUT delivered speeches respectively on behalf of the delegation. They emphasized the importance and uniqueness of ISE to both universities. After nearly four years of close collaboration, they acknowledged the strong support from the leadership and the dedicated efforts of the teaching staff of the three universities to ensure the teaching activities carried out in an orderly manner. Via the on site lecture at TCU campus, they not only felt the warmth of TCU community, but also witnessed the enthusiasm of TCU students. They expressed expectations for future opportunities through the international exchange and cooperation platform to broaden horizons, gain experience and improve skills for the teachers and students of the three universities.
Later on, Huang Lingxiang, Dean of ISE, reported on the recent development of ISE.
As a crucial component of the international education brand of TCU, ISE plays a vital role in advancing the internationalization of education, and is of great significance for TCU to improve the level of Chinese-foreign cooperative education, to build a new pattern of international exchange and cooperation, and to expand a new platform for high-level featured development. The visit of the Polish delegation to deliver lectures provided an excellent opportunity for consolidating the understanding and deepening consensus among the three universities, contributing to the implementation of the international education brand mission and advancing the active practice of the "5I Dimension·Rong System", laying a solid foundation for high-quality development of TCU international exchange.
