According to this positioning and teaching method, the construction pattern of Tianwen University of Information Technology is basically based on laboratories, with laboratory buildings occupying 40% of the entire campus buildings.
In fact, according to the ability of artificial intelligence teachers, group classes can be cancelled. However, the old tradition is still retained for now. Whether it will be canceled in the future depends on the actual situation.
Now the teaching committee of Tianwen University of Information Technology disagrees, because group classes are not only a classroom for students to learn knowledge, but also a way of interpersonal communication.
If everyone studies alone in the dormitory, it is very likely that in a few years, they will not even know a few of their classmates. This is a pity for young people who are full of youth.
Moreover, young people who have passed the intense college entrance examination are likely to relax themselves as soon as they arrive at university. Their self-discipline is much worse than that in high school. In addition, there are more and more entertainment methods now, and it is likely that the time that should be used for studying will be spent on other things. Something completely unrelated.
Therefore, the current group classes are still retained. This is the same reason that students are still required to go to school to study in the compulsory education stage. There must be more communication between peers, and they cannot just study at home.
As for the learning status of each student, it is easy for the intelligent teacher to detect it, and the test questions given by the intelligent teacher are not as simple as before. It is difficult to give good answers without understanding them.
Therefore, it is very difficult for students nowadays to get through through other means. Even in the final exam, not all students share the same test paper. Everyone is different, and there is no way to collude to answer the questions.
However, although the test questions are different, the knowledge points tested are the same. As for whether students can see it from the test questions, that is another matter. Only in this way can we see how well the students have learned.
On the contrary, the experimental part requires less energy for students, at least for undergraduate students, because these experiments are verification teaching experiments, which mainly cultivate hands-on experimental skills and do not involve experimental innovation. .
The laboratories of Tianwen University of Information Technology are also divided into levels. For example, the undergraduate teaching laboratory is the lowest level laboratory. The instruments and equipment inside are mainly used for teaching, and the cost is not very high.
At the postgraduate stage, you need to follow your mentor to do some forward-looking and innovative experiments. However, at this stage, you are not able to design innovative experimental procedures on your own. You are following your mentor to learn how to design experiments you have never seen before.
At the doctoral stage, the situation is completely different. Work such as selecting topics and conducting experiments are basically done by doctoral students alone. At most, they just ask their supervisors to point out and see if there are any omissions.
In fact, when you reach the doctoral stage, you must have the ability to complete experiments independently, instead of following behind your instructor and passively practicing step by step. This is also the fundamental difference between the master's degree stage and the doctoral stage.
At this stage, the instruments and equipment in the laboratory are no different from those in professional scientific research institutes, and are even much more advanced than the experimental instruments and equipment provided by other domestic scientific research institutes.
Zhao Yi originally provided 10 billion yuan in founding funds for Tianwen University of Information Technology. In fact, not much money was spent on buildings. A few hundred million yuan can build a very good school.
Most of the remaining funds are actually used to purchase high-end experimental equipment and experimental materials. The funds used in this regard have reached 5 billion yuan, and the remaining funds are less than half.
Less than half of the remaining funds are mainly used to maintain the operation of the school. In fact, according to Zhao Yi's estimation, it will not be used for long. It only requires a few major experimental projects, which will basically consume 7788.
The information technology discipline itself is mainly based on experiments, and the cost of materials and experimental equipment is very high, especially high-precision equipment, which costs more than one billion yuan per set.
What's more, Tianwen University of Information Technology is also responsible for the construction and research and development of this earth simulator. Although the framework has been set up by Zhao Yi, the details only consume more time and money.
Although he also provided funds for the Earth Simulator project, as the main person in charge of the project, Tianwen University of Information Technology sometimes had to provide its own funds, which was inevitable in practice.
Fortunately, he had anticipated that this would be the case, and did not think that by spending 10 billion yuan at the beginning, he could sit back and relax without investing any more money.
That 10 billion yuan of funds is really just the school construction fee. Later, depending on the development needs of Tianwen University of Information Technology, funds will be invested to supplement it so that the school can develop smoothly.
One thing to note here is that for private universities such as Tianwen University and Tianwen University of Information Technology, Chinese education companies will not provide education funds, and all funds need to be raised by the schools themselves.
Because the source of funds for Chinese education companies is fiscal taxation, which belongs to the state, and since private universities are not under the unified dispatch and management of the state, they naturally cannot enjoy the preferential conditions of public universities.
For example, Tianwen University's main source of income is school-run enterprises. It uses the school's scientific research resources and management resources to establish a huge group of school-run enterprises, which can bring a large amount of funds to Tianwen University every year.
In addition to running real businesses, teachers and students majoring in finance at Tianwen University also need to work hard in the capital market. On the one hand, they need to accumulate real financial capital practical capabilities for themselves. Otherwise, they can only It's a joke.
After these practical operations, students have relatively rich practical capital operation experience, and the school's teachers have truly grown into capital traders instead of staying at the theoretical teaching stage.
On the other hand, it brings good financial capital gains to the school. Don’t underestimate this. With the strong financial strength of Tianwen University, in the international capital market, the gains are no less than those brought by real enterprises. Even a lot more.
This is also the reason why he provided 10 billion US dollars to Tianwen University from the beginning. If it was purely used for teaching, such a large amount of funds would not be used at all.
He mainly wants Tianwen University to consolidate the foundation of Tianwen University through all-round operation of this fund, so that it can truly achieve independence and not be a short-lived private university.
Obviously, if Tianwen University of Information Technology wants to achieve independence and reduce its need for external funds, it will naturally follow a similar path.
It’s just that Tianwen University of Information Technology is a purely science and engineering university, so it naturally does not involve value-added financial services. It mainly achieves the purpose of scientific research transformation through its own scientific research strength, through patents or the establishment of school enterprises, thus forming more sources of funds. .
In addition, it is to undertake research projects entrusted by enterprises. This is currently the main channel for Tianwen Information Technology University to obtain funds. The scale of funds it may obtain is second only to the funds donated by Zhao Yi.
Currently, the number one project of Tianwen University of Information Technology is the earth simulator. Research surrounding the earth simulator can actually produce a large number of new technologies and new patents.
Although these new technologies and new patents actually belong to Zhao Yi, after all, the earth simulator research project was completely funded by Zhao Yi, and the research results naturally belong to him.
However, he will still give up non-core technologies and allow Tianwen University of Information Technology to use these non-core patented technologies to establish its own school enterprises to reduce reliance on its own funds.
As for the core technology, it depends on how important it is. If it is not suitable to be disclosed temporarily, Tianwen University of Information Technology will naturally not be allowed to use it to make money.
In fact, his patent demands for the earth simulator project are not strong. Anyway, with these patented technologies, it is impossible to develop an identical earth simulator, because the intelligent core of the earth simulator is provided by him and is not accessible to the outside world. .
It's just that Tianwen University of Information Technology has only just been established not long ago, and the school's essential work has just gotten on the right track. It will take some time to produce a large number of patented technologies.
Naturally, there is no way to talk about a school-run enterprise. In addition, most of the school's teaching staff comes from its enterprises. Teaching as a teacher is a side job, and the essential work is to serve the enterprise's research.
And the students of the school have just entered the stage of university education, and it will take a long time to innovate. Generally speaking, Tianwen University of Information Technology is not yet a completely independent university, and it still needs a long way to go.
However, in the field of education, Tianwen University of Information Technology still has confidence, but it is still a bit difficult to become independent. The current situation is the result of help from all parties.
Zhao Yi followed the school's academic staff and visited the entire university. He was very satisfied with the software and hardware. After spending billions of dollars, the effect was indeed different.
It's just that it's summer vacation, and the school is basically empty except for some teaching staff and security personnel, so it's impossible to know exactly how the school is operating.
But it doesn't matter. The Chinese education company will help him supervise the school-related aspects, and he does not need to worry about these matters personally.
Although it stands to reason that Tianwen University of Information Technology is a private university, Chinese education companies have no right to supervise it. Unless there is a major accident, the Ministry of Education and other relevant departments will come out to deal with it.
But who is called China Education Company? It is also his private company. He handed over his rights to China Education Company, which naturally allowed China Education Company to have seats on the board of directors and education committee of Tianwen University of Information Technology and Tianwen University.
And they have a lot of power in their hands. Fortunately, the staff in China Education Company know education very well, so there will be no situation where laymen guide experts.
Moreover, China Education Company also adheres to his wishes and generally does not interfere with the normal operation of schools. It will only intervene when major problems or accidents occur.
At the same time, the school's finances and personnel will be supervised to prevent the private use of public equipment. In terms of finance and personnel, China Education Company has very great power. Although it does not have a veto power, they represent Zhao Yi.
However, every year, China Education Company needs to prepare a report on the relevant situation and report it to Zhao Yi, so that Zhao Yi can fully understand the operation of the two schools, and at the same time, it also supervises the rights of China Education Company to avoid expansion.
Zhao Yi then checked the scientific research projects of Xiatianwen University of Information Technology and found that most of them were actually improved research on technologies that are already available today, and there were fewer forward-looking research projects.
In fact, this situation is normal. First, the teaching staff of Tianwen University of Information Technology cannot be independent, so naturally they cannot carry out relevant research on their own. They need to rely on the needs of enterprises to do this work.
The second is forward-looking research in the fields of semiconductors, communications, electronic materials, software, etc. Each of his companies has done it internally, and it is confidential, so naturally it will not be shared with Tianwen University of Information Technology.
Photonic chips in semiconductors, quantum communications in communications, carbon nanomaterials in electronic materials, artificial intelligence in software, etc. are all key directions for the future of enterprises, and it is impossible to fake others.
But since we want to build Tianwen University of Information Technology into the number one information technology university in China and even the world, if we are so conservative, the natural effect will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, he hopes that Tianwen University of Information Technology and his companies will carry out more higher-tech research projects, instead of just staying in lower-level research projects.
Although it is not necessary to carry out all-round collaborative research, at least some of the less important research topics in the forward-looking research project should be used for cooperation.
However, such cooperation is not currently necessary. As mentioned before, the teaching staff of Tianwen University of Information Technology mainly comes from various companies under its umbrella.
In fact, this kind of cooperation does not provide much help from Tianwen University of Information Technology. Cooperating with Tianwen University of Information Technology is not much different from conducting research within one's own company, and it does not help much with the progress of the project.
Faced with this situation, he will not use mandatory orders to promote deeper cooperation between the two parties, but will emphasize strengthening in-depth cooperation when necessary.
He did this for two reasons. The first reason is that even if cooperation is forced now, the effect will not be good for both parties. The research strength is actually the company's own team, and the students from Tianwen University of Information Technology also No benefit can be obtained.
For a forward-looking research project like this, you must at least wait until you are a doctoral student before you are eligible to participate. However, the students at Tianwen University of Information Technology are all undergraduates, and there is still a lot of time before the doctoral stage.
Not to mention these forward-looking studies, even the improved studies currently being carried out, actually have little effect on the students of Tianwen University of Information Technology. They currently focus on learning textbook knowledge and practicing practical skills.
In this case, these cooperation projects are actually needed to train professors and experts poached by Tianwen University of Information Technology, thereby improving the strength of these professors and experts.
The core faculty of Tianwen University of Information Technology come from various companies under its umbrella. In addition, a group of people have also been recruited from some domestic scientific research institutes and universities to serve.
In addition to domestic scientific researchers, Tianwen University of Information Technology has also found a group of experts and scholars from the international community. Although the number is not large, there are still some people.
It's just that these people usually don't have access to more advanced technical research projects, and these improved research projects allow these people to access and learn cutting-edge research projects and improve their capabilities.
When they fully demonstrate their research capabilities and receive a certain test in terms of loyalty, they may carry out deeper project research in the next step.
Therefore, it is more appropriate to carry out project cooperation at the current technical level now, and it is also based on the considerations of each major enterprise's own interests and the strength of Tianwen University of Information Technology.
The second reason is that Tianwen University of Information Technology will recruit more foreign teachers in the future, and it is unknown whether these foreign teachers are trustworthy.
As it is now, not long after Tianwen University of Information Technology was established, students from all over the world want to come and study abroad. The purpose is naturally not to build our country, but to learn skills and go back to build their own country.
The most important reason why our country's economy is developing rapidly and has not seriously affected the development of other countries is that our country has achieved transcendence in the field of new technologies instead of simply repeating the old paths of others.
However, our country's economy is developing rapidly and emerging industries are in their ascendant. This has naturally attracted the attention of other countries, but they are not able to obtain these new technologies from other universities in our country.
It is even more difficult to obtain technology from his companies. In fact, both companies and governments in these countries are actually quite anxious, but there was no good way before.
Since most of Tianwen University of Information Technology's teaching staff comes from major enterprises, it is the best opportunity for them to get exposed to my country's new technology industries. This is why foreign students are so interested in this newly established university.
However, Tianwen University of Information Technology does not open a channel for studying abroad, so naturally some people will target those scholars who come to teach. This can be regarded as a way to save the country.
In this case, it is not appropriate to carry out forward-looking research cooperation. The improved research project is already the highest level technical research project that can be produced at present.
For example, photonic chips, quantum communications, etc. are actually only known by these research companies themselves, and the outside world is not yet clear. However, the outside world has begun to take notice of the research on graphene and carbon nanomaterials.
It's just that their research in this area has just begun. Previously, these research results were only published in top domestic journals, and foreign countries did not care about the academic results published in domestic journals.
However, because of the last incident about Zhao Yi, foreign research institutions also noticed the academic value of top domestic journals, and naturally noticed the results related to graphene and carbon nanomaterials research published there.
In addition, the most coveted thing for them is artificial intelligence technology, but it was basically impossible for them to obtain these technologies before. For their own interests, various companies will not disclose any technology in this area.
Therefore, their desire to obtain artificial intelligence is actually very urgent, even far exceeding that of graphene and nanomaterial technology. There is basically no technology that can replace the former, and there are many technologies that can replace the latter. Although the effect is not good, at least it can still use.
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with being cautious in the process of forward-looking research cooperation. Zhao Yi also supports their approach and even suggested that Tianwen University of Information Technology should also be cautious when opening channels for international students.
If foreign students really want to study in China, then they should go to Tianwen University. Anyway, Tianwen University is also a good university, at least the research carried out by other domestic universities is more in-depth.
In fact, this is also true. After learning that Tianwen University of Information Technology would not open study abroad channels for the time being, Tianwen University became the first choice for these international students, and it was much more popular than the previous two years.
As for the international students who come to study in China, they no longer mainly study languages. There are also many international students who come to study science and engineering. This can be regarded as a recognition of our country's scientific and technological achievements.
Although he doesn't care much about the approval of others, this invisible scientific research influence is still beneficial to our country, but it will not be visible in the short term.
After seeing the situation at Tianwen University of Information Technology, a day passed. Early the next morning, I rushed to Tianwen University to check the construction status of their Yaohu campus.
The Yaohu campus occupies an area not much smaller than that of the main campus. It is also a huge campus, allowing Tianwen University to take its enrollment scale to a higher level, and at the same time, its influence in the domestic higher education field is greater. (End of chapter)