The 2023 Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Program freshman Orientation meeting of Shanghai International School of Chief Technology Office（ECNU） was successfully held in Yifu Building, Putuo Campus of East China Normal University on May 20. He Jiaxun, Executive Dean of the CTO School, delivered a speech at the meeting and awarded Ni Zheng, Chief Human Resources Officer/Director/General Manager of Highlight Capital（HLC）, a certificate of appointment as a distinguished professor of practice at the Shanghai International School of Chief Technology Officer（ECNU）. Afterwards, Ni Zheng shared his main topic. Assistant Professor Zhou Qin from CTO School gave a speech on behalf of the teachers and academic teams, and students from the 2022 CTO Elite Class, Liu Haibo, Technical Director of Suzhou Heshu Intelligent Software Co., Ltd., and four representatives of the 2023 freshmen shared their insights. Finally, the four course-coordinators （MEM Program） got to know each other with the freshmen and led them on a preliminary trip to the campus.
At this exciting orientation meeting, 2023 freshmen gathered together to embark on a dream driven future together. The students appreciated the earnest teachings of the dean and teacher together, listened to the sincere feelings of alumni and seniors, and shared their CTO dream journey with each other. The two-and-a-half-year MEM Program learning journey set sail.
At the beginning of the event, He Jiaxun delivered a speech at the orientation meeting around the theme of Taking the Path of New Education and Moving towards a New Future. He warmly welcomed the arrival of the new students and pointed out that behind educational innovation lies the need for new national strategic development. It is necessary to deeply understand today's era and use this as the basic starting point for all ideas, concepts, and actions. We need to fully understand the core principles of the Three New in the 14th Five Year Plan, which are based on a new stage of development, implementing new development concepts, and constructing a new development pattern. Innovation is the core keyword. Regarding how to do a good job in educational innovation, He Jiaxun proposed four core points: firstly, the concept, with the core spirit of collaborative development of educational technology talents , to cultivate senior talents who truly face the development of the science and technology industry; The second is the mission, which is to respond to huge challenges and contribute to the sustainable development and socio-economic progress of the world; The third is the goal, oriented towards the future career development of talents, altering the way of thinking, shaping abilities and patterns; The fourth task is to focus on innovation and innovative leadership as the core of education and training. Finally, he expressed best wishes to the students： the opportunity to change their inner selves, reshape themselves, and achieve significant development and achievements in their career development in the future.
In the upcoming appointment ceremony, Dean He Jiaxun awarded Ni Zheng as the Distinguished Professor of Practice.
She shared a theme on how to explore self breakthroughs and move towards the path of CTO, titled With "Exploration of CTO's Growth Path". She proposed four key points: evolution of self-awareness, evolution of personal abilities, building a personal brand, lifelong learning, and building a sense of happiness. Among them, the improvement of individual ability needs to focus on the multi-dimensional development path, and the cultivation of CTO leadership needs to focus on forward-looking thinking, critical thinking, openness, focus, interpersonal sensitivity, influence, self-development ability and team cultivation ability. She also gave sincere encouragement and blessings for the new CTO journey of pursuing dreams.
On behalf of the academic teams and Teachers，Assistant Professor Zhou Qin gave a speech titled “Engineering Management: Connecting Innovation and Practice”, introducing the background, cases, methods, and skills of the engineering management.
2022 MEM student Liu Haibo shares his personal insights as a newcomer with the 2023 freshmen around the theme of Meeting a Better Self at CTO of East China Normal University.
Yi Qizhi, from the 2023 CTO Advanced Class, stated that he is a person who loves to struggle, refuses to give up, enjoys challenges, and enjoys learning. This is also an inherent and inevitable factor for him to choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination after working for many years. From a professional perspective, he is skilled in and loves software AI. Although he has already done CTO, he has never learned how to do CTO well. Therefore, he hopes to lay the foundation for his future career development through studying at the CTO School.
Mei Yanqiong, a member of the 2023 CTO Elite Class 1, stated that she chose the MEM project at East China Normal University in order to cultivate strategic thinking skills and better plan her career for the next few decades. In addition, the help of the teachers also made her feel the warm light. Another reason for coming here is to hope to have light and emit light by approaching and chasing light.
Liu Yan, from the 2023 CTO Elite Class 2, stated that she has been striving to enrich her knowledge in her past career, such as project management processes and team resource management. She hopes to continuously expand her depth and breadth of thinking in her future studies and become a mentor and friend with classmates from different fields.
Song Kai, from the 2023 CTO Elite Class 3, stated that he has served many technology-based enterprises in his past work and is deeply concerned about the changes and challenges brought by technological development. At the same time, he is concerned about his cognitive boundaries in the technology industry. Therefore, he came to the CTO School to enrich his knowledge structure, cultivate a more comprehensive thinking dimension, and bring more valuable services to customers, And make your company a virtuous enterprise with a high level of thinking, operational methods, humanistic sentiments, and social value. He called on his classmates to become co builders of this platform, using their own efforts and achievements in applying what they have learned to win glory for the school.
Subsequently, the course coordinators also took the stage one by one to introduce themselves to everyone and extend warmly welcome and best regards to the students.
In the final stage , the course coordinators led the students to tour the campus together, admiring famous campus scenery such as Qunxian Hall, School History Museum, Siquntang, Library, Liwa River, and Da Xia Bookstore. Walking slowly along the banks of the Liwa River, shaded by green trees, students are experiencing the cultural heritage of East China Normal University while envisioning the future of MEM learning. So far, The 2023 Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Program freshman Orientation was a complete success, which also opened the curtain for more exciting activities.
