Free Web NovelChapter 1299: Chapter 622: Ox-Head and Horse-Face with Snow White_2
The school couldn’t find any other points of development.
This was a matter of concern for the school administration, and Vice Chancellor Liu Zhibei directly brought it up, wanting Zhao Yi to discuss this issue.
Zhao Yi shook his head with a wry smile, "How the school should develop, I really don’t have much clarity on that."
Although he had driven the development of Yanhua University, allowing it to surpass Shuimu and Capital University in fame and specialty attractiveness to some extent, the main reason for the development was his personal research efforts, which held a world-wide super influence, and many of the school’s key research and development projects and achievements were directly related to him.
Zhao Yi’s statement was taken as modesty, and amidst the eating and drinking, others continued to earnestly persuade him, so he could only reluctantly say a few words.
In fact, Zhao Yi was also eager to support the development of his hometown university, but as to how specifically it should develop, he was somewhat at a loss for direction, so he could only speak to future development trends.
"Adapting to future development trends by cultivating talents in relevant fields can increase student employment rates and job quality."
Zhao Yi mentioned several fields, mainly those in the cutting-edge areas of technology, including space technology, high-end materials development, Space Link Technology, and so on.
In the future, both space technology and communications will certainly undergo rapid development, and other fields, including industries such as mechanical manufacturing, will certainly continue to advance. Some traditional fields like transportation, communications, and energy will definitely be impacted.
In the direction of the latest technology, there is still a significant lack of talent.
Including technologies such as anti-gravity, space connections, Z-wave, there is currently a shortage of high-end theoretical talent, mainly because the latest technologies are confidential by nature and have not been widely disseminated in civilian domains.
With continuous technological advancement, the future will definitely move towards civilian domains, and there will be a greater shortage of engineering technical talent.
Zhao Yi didn’t touch on high-end theoretical research because for Zhengyang University, cultivating high-end mathematical and physics talents is impractical.
One reason is that the academic environment is not up to par, and the other is that the quality of students does not stand out.
The closer the research is to theory, the more difficult it will be. To engage in theoretical research, one must be among the top talents, and to succeed in theoretical research, one must be a genius among geniuses.
Zhengyang University’s pool of new students lags behind, making it difficult to attract outstanding geniuses.
Thus, Zhao Yi focused on the latest technological fields for engineering technical talent, and domestically there are still no related majors in the latest technology fields. The future talent gap will be quite significant.
Current research and development related to the latest technology, including Space Link Technology that has already covered civilian areas, uses engineering technical talent, including some fundamental equipment maintenance talent. It can be said that they are ’an overkill’ for the job. Some Space Link Technology equipment maintenance technicians even have master’s or doctoral degrees from departments of mechanics and information technology, which is quite unnecessary because to do their jobs, an associate degree would be almost sufficient. It’s just that, due to the lack of related talent and the assumption that jobs involved in the latest technology must require high-tech talent, this group of individuals is temporarily involved in entry-level work.
Zhao Yi talked a lot about the cultivation of engineering technical talent in the forefront fields, but he didn’t specify how exactly to cultivate them.
These matters require professionals engaged in education within universities to study; all he needed to do was to outline and point a direction.
In the end, Zhao Yi did make a practical promise, "When Yixing Technology develops in the future, we will consider recruiting at Zhengyang University."
This promise was quite decent already.
Yixing Technology mainly engages in space technology research and development, which requires top talents. Zhengyang University is just an ordinary undergraduate institution without any distinctive features to attract top enterprises for recruitment.
Although many international large enterprises claim that they don’t care about academic credentials but only capabilities, in reality, it’s all just deceitful talk. They claim not to value academic qualifications, yet they only recruit from top universities. If you look at the colleges from which they have recruited employees over the years, you will find that the vast majority are from top institutions.
This is not to say that ordinary universities don’t produce talents; it’s a matter of probability. The likelihood of top universities producing talents is obviously far greater than that of average institutions. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
If it comes to cultivating Fields Medal laureates, it would be unrealistic to expect a student who barely passed the College Entrance Examination in mathematics to one day win an international math prize, whereas a student from a prestigious university’s math department has a much higher probability of winning an award if engaged in mathematical research.
It’s the same principle.
Zhao Yi still felt close to his hometown’s university. He spent an entire day at Zhengyang University and didn’t return home to rest until the evening, when he learned that the date for the conference in the capital had been set.
The Capital Conference was not just one meeting, but a series of meetings related to the spaceship project.
The spaceship project was so enormous that it required repeated verification and discussion, studying from every direction and angle before anything could be definitively decided.
As the initiator of the spaceship project, Zhao Yi was certainly going to participate in the conference. He was sure to play the most important technical core role in the spaceship project, likely acting as the ’Chief Engineer’.
There was about half a month before the first round of meetings, giving Zhao Yi more time to prepare for the conference and to relax a little more.
Three days later, Sun Liang returned to Zhengyang and found Zhao Yi. He wasn’t alone; he also brought his fiancee, whose engagement had just been confirmed.
