Can there be undergraduates among the project members applying for scientific research funds?

Undergraduate students can apply for research funds.

Setting up "innovative credits" for engineering and changing students' evaluation criteria

Reporter Shu Shuxin

Harbin, May 13, Harbin Engineering University. In the student activity room, a simple biped robot pushes a car to perform in circles on the ground, and the "four-legged crawling mechanism" based on the "wooden ox and flowing horse" made by Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms slowly moves forward. In the other corner, Li Chengbin Bay ("Binbei" is a superstructure) of the School of Shipbuilding is explaining the improved offshore "Exploration 3" drilling platform. ...

At the seventh "May 4th Cup" extracurricular academic science and technology competition for college students, the first batch of 36 scientific research projects with broad application prospects were supported by nearly 40,000 yuan of scientific research funds. The website of the Youth League Committee designed by Tian Hong of Computer College received the most financial support, which was 5,000 yuan. The thrifty device invented by Tang Songrong of the Institute of Shipbuilding received the least funding, only 20 yuan.

The evaluation committee member of the research fund and the person in charge of the research room of Harbin Institute of Technology said that these works are scientific, innovative and practical, such as green light source, long-arm fruit picker, CAI courseware development of heating engineering, dual-purpose eraser, homemade MP3 player, electronic door lock development, hotel reservation system, portable e-book reader, astronomical telescope light guide tracking system and so on. , fully demonstrates the unique creative thinking of contemporary college students, and these works pay more attention to the living environment and people.

According to Li Xiuzhi, secretary of the Youth League Committee of Harbin Engineering University, the "May 4th Cup" extracurricular academic and scientific works competition for college students is a famous brand activity of the Youth League Committee of Harbin Engineering University. It has been held for 7 times so far, and * * * has won more than 500 inventions, which greatly promoted the improvement of college students' scientific research ability and the cultivation of innovative spirit. Starting from this year, Harbin Engineering University has set up a special research fund for students' extracurricular scientific and technological activities, which is used to support and comprehensively promote the development of students' extracurricular academic activities and transform students' extracurricular scientific research achievements into real productivity in time. According to the implementation measures, undergraduates, junior college students, master's and doctoral students can apply for student research funds, which are mainly funded by special funds of the school. The fund focuses on supporting extracurricular academic and scientific projects with novel academic ideas, full argumentation, innovation and practicality.

"The scientific research level of college students is not necessarily high, but the creative thinking embodied in the works is commendable." Huang Shen, vice president of Harbin Engineering University, said with experience. From last year 1 1 to February this year, Huang Sheng introduced the work of "bionic fish" created by Zheng Shijie, a student from the School of Electromechanical Engineering of Harbin Engineering University, to Japanese shipbuilding experts. They were amazed and said that such a masterpiece was beyond an undergraduate's imagination. They said: "Japan has begun to study this aspect, but the structural form proposed by Zheng Shijie is the simplest and novel." Zheng Shijie put forward the idea of using fish bionics as underwater machine power, which has been applied to related research projects.

Huang Sheng emphasized that the purpose of setting up scientific research fund is to cultivate college students' innovative spirit and creative thinking, and at the same time, it is also guiding students to know what the standard of success is. In the past, the criteria for evaluating good students were good test scores, obedience and hard work. Now students are required to have a strong sense of innovation, not afraid of authority and dare to put forward different opinions. He introduced that at present, the school has set up "innovation credits" for students, and every student can use open laboratories such as electricians and electronics to engage in scientific research. For students who have achieved scientific research results, the school gives "innovation credits" to join the total credits of students.

However, Huang Sheng also pointed out that the transformation and popularization of college students' scientific research achievements are still lagging behind, and universities should actively support them. For example, the videophone has come out now. However, Zhao Xuemin, a student of this school, invented the videophone four years ago. His achievements won the prize in the Fifth National Challenge Cup for College Students, but they did not quickly turn into market products. He said that in the future, the school will actively support college students to apply for patents, and the expenses will be borne by the school.