CLGO 2020 I-Plus Excellent Internship Award and Appointment of New Co-Academic Director Successfully Held

On November 10th, 2022, "China Leaders for Global Operations" (CLGO) Program Class 2020 Students I-Plus Excellent Internship Program Award and the New Appointment of Co-academic Directors were held at B305 of ACEM, SJTU. Attending the meeting were Yin Haitao, Associate Dean of ACEM, SJTU, Luo Jun, Director of CLGO Program, Wang Xiaowei, Director of MBA Center, new co-academic directors of all colleges, as well as internship instructors of winners and winning students from Antai College of Economics and Management (ACEM), School of Mechanical Engineering (SME), School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering (SEIEE), and C.Y. Tung Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing and Service Management (former Sino-US Global Logistics Institute).

First of all, Associate Dean Yin Haitao delivered an opening remark. He said that the CLGO program was a distinctive project, focused on Action to Learning from beginning to end, closely connecting with enterprises and integrating theory with practice. With the help and guidance of faculties from ACEM, SME, SEIEE, C.Y. Tung Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing and Service Management, sound results have been achieved by integrating management and engineering of practical projects and keeping up with the global trend and market trajectory. The characteristics of the program will be maintained.

Next, Associate Dean Yin Haitao presented letters of appointment to the new co-academic directors.

New CLGO Co-Academic Directors:

Then, Prof. Luo Jun, Director of CLGO program, introduced the overall situation of the 2022 I-Plus internship projects. A total of 61 projects were received in 2022, and 34 students were finally matched accordingly and participated in 34 internship programs in 17 companies. In order to improve the quality of research and practice of the I-Plus program for students and encourage faculties from all colleges to actively participate in the guidance of the project, the evaluation criteria of last year have been optimized and upgraded. Excellent internship projects have been selected from four dimensions: enterprise feedback, mid-term report, final report and project team scoring: There are 2 projects for the first prize, 5 projects for the second prize and 10 projects for the third prize. Luo Jun expressed his gratitude to the instructors of internship programs for their careful guidance, and also affirmed the students' attitude to keep working during the internship.

The second agenda of the event was the award ceremony. Teachers and students of the 17 winning programs came on stage in turn to receive their awards. The award ceremony was grand and warm, with heartfelt congratulations and thanks to the instructors and students for their excellent performance during the internship!

After the award ceremony, the instructors discussed and summarized their experiences on the 2022 I-Plus internship programs, and looked forward to the 2023 internship programs.

Each CLGO student will have a 6-month internship program at a corporate partner. The internship begins in March of the student's second academic year until August. The objectives of the internship include:

l  Provide a unique educational experience that broadens students’ knowledge of manufacturing and operations;

l  Expose students to real manufacturing and operation issues, which can be addressed only through teamwork and the integration of disciplines;

l  Produce generic and specific engineering and management results via internship project and thesis;

l  Support research activities that are critical to corporate partners and the CLGO program;

l  Strengthen collaborative relations between SJTU and corporate partners;

l  Help companies achieve manufacturing and operations excellence.

The two teachers from SME and ACEM, SJTU, and the internship instructor designated by the management of the corporate partner will act as instructors to jointly guide the students and provide academic and practical assistance during the internship. The internship program provides each student with the basis for their thesis writing.