这里，创意成真！宁诺暑期科研项目让学生“乐不思蜀”

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暑期过半。在宁波诺丁汉大学创新实验室里，学生们正忙得不亦乐乎！

作为宁波诺丁汉大学历史最悠久的一个学生综合素质提升计划，本科生科研实习项目在2020至2021学年开启了第10个年头。今年科研实习项目还从原本的仅在暑假开展，延伸拓展到学期中。在学期中，14个科研项目，吸引了124名学生参与。而在今年暑假，一共有100余个科研项目，招募学生近400名。

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沉浸式体验科研魅力

暑假科研实习的主要目的是为在校生创造与来自不同学科、不同年级学生接触与互动的机会，搭建了解科学研究实质、增进科研技能、探索自身兴趣的平台，以达到学生潜力激发、可转换技能掌握和综合素质的全面提升。考虑到疫情影响，学院还人性化地开设了线上远程科研项目，为无法返校的国际生们同样提供参与科研的机会。

由大三学生余艾洋、大二学生孙健铖和博士生王心培组成的团队便向我们“首秀”了他们独创的“五指仿生机械手”。一旁的指导老师电气工程及其自动化专业的王成波副教授忍不住“安利”道，“这个项目非常有创新性，是学生自己提出的。在短短的6个周之内，他们完成了设计，算法和硬件，调试等一系列的工作。这是我指导过的最佳暑期研究项目之一。”

“五指仿生机械手”能够复制人手的运动

据余艾洋介绍，“五指仿生机械手”可以用来辅助肢体或手指残疾的患者。它的原理是通过配带在手臂上的环形肌肉电信号传感器，连接电脑并机器学习不同的手势，再通过与电脑相连的驱动板控制仿生手的运动。实验证明，该“仿生机械手”每根手指、每个关节都有其独立性，操控成功率可达80%以上。

土木工程系的张纬鑫、卢展辉和刘宗璇同学则组成了一个科研小队伍，围绕着利用工业废弃物制备绿色低碳水泥基材料课题开展了暑期研究。指导老师李波副教授介绍说，该课题对建筑领域的“碳达峰、碳中和”目标实现有极大的促进作用。学生们积极主动地进行了查阅文献、制定方案、开展试验、结果分析总结等工作。这不但提高了学生们的科研能力和学术素养，而且也培养了他们的创新思维与创新能力。

学生们在进行碱激发泡沫混凝土力学性能测试

据了解，暑期科研实习项目设立之初，宁波诺丁汉大学理工学院就希望学生能通过探讨问题、户外考察、采集数据、动手实验、撰写报告等方式，有机会沉浸式体验科研的全过程，将自己在课堂所学的知识应用到实际生产和生活中。

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学以致用带来价值创造

让学生能够参与到真正产业化商业化的项目中，而非不明实际需求的盲目创新，是宁诺暑期科研项目另一个特点。大二学生杨皓中、王轶正参与了航空系李灏楠副教授的桌面五轴加工中心项目，主要负责复杂零件加工轨迹规划与机床动力学优化方面的内容。李老师解释说，“学生暑研解决的问题均来自我们真实用户的需求，这让同学们研究时更具目的性，成果更具实际意义”。

大尺寸超快速3D打印机项目团队合照

暑假期间，电气工程及其自动化专业的王子铭同学跟随航空航天学院的ChungKet Thein博士做关于振动能量回收的项目。子铭说，这个项目可以说是他在学期研究中的关于铷系强磁铁研究的延续。随着项目的推进，导师和他发现了一个新的创新点并自主设计了一套新的震动电机控制系统，并计划将此作为一个新的项目延续下去。

注重学生的在校体验，尊重每一个学生的创新与创意，十年发展让暑期科研实习收获颇丰。宁诺机甲战队在RoboMaster2021机甲大师超级对抗赛（国家赛区）线上评审中获二等奖，曾自主研发方程式赛车的成员选择毕业后创业——研发适用于二轮车的半主动减震电调系统，创新实验室的4个项目入围今年挑战杯。

理工学院院长吴韬教授说：

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经过几年的磨合和探索，我们欣喜地看到，学生不仅找到了自己兴趣所在和发展方向，更是为知识转移和创新创业提供了新的入口。

在他看来，本科生科研实习项目“风靡”的背后，隐含着宁诺以人为本的国际化人才培养和高等教育质量控制理念。据介绍，宁波诺丁汉大学所有的工程类本科专业（除新增专业外）、建筑学专业及计算机科学系的两个专业均获得了国际权威机构的认证。理工学院始终贯彻“以学生为中心”的教育理念，突出教学，关注质量，通过启发式教学、互动式教学、基于项目的教学以及团队和个人设计项目，点燃学生智慧火花，让学生学会学习、学会做事、学会发现、学会创新。

Student Extra-curriculum Programme allows creativity to become reality

2021 is the tenth year that the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FoSE) of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) has offered the Student Extra-curriculum Programme (SEP). Unlike previous programmes, this year the SEP extends across the whole academic year. During the last term, the programme included 14 scientific research projects with the participation of 124 students. This summer, approximately 400 students joined over 100 scientific research projects.

The FoSE Undergraduate Research Placement is a crucial part of the SEP, which aims to provide opportunities for students to contact and interact with peer students from different disciplines and years; it serves as a platform for students to explore the essence of scientific research, improve scientific research skills and find their own interests, to release the potential of students and enhance their comprehensive capabilities. Considering the impact of the pandemic, there are also quite a number of projects available to off-campus students.

The Innovation Lab, another significant component of the SEP, serves as an innovative platform hosting a number of student-centred projects. Here students are able to explore their field of interest and turn their innovative ideas into practice. The University offers students a professional supervisory team to support them to integrate theory and practice, improving students’ ability to apply knowledge and think independently.

The Bionic Manipulator Controlled by Muscle Electronic Sensor developed by two undergraduates Aiyang Yu, Jiancheng Sun and PhD candidate Xinpei Wang, was very innovative. The device can be used to help patients with limb or finger disabilities, and each finger and each joint of the “bionic manipulator” is proven to be independent – with a success rate of control over 80%. “This is one of the best summer research projects that I have supervised,” said Dr Chengbo Wang, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The team of Weixin Zhang, Zhanhui Lu and Zongxuan Liu of Civil Engineering carried out research on developing green cement-based material out of industrial waste. Dr Bo Li, Associate Professor in Structural Engineering and their supervisor, commented that the experience of the complete scientific cycle, from literature review to result analysis, promoted their academic literacy as well as their innovative thinking.

Encouraging students to participate in industrial and commercial projects rather than innovation without practical possibility is a key feature of SEP. Haozhong Yang and Yizheng Wang joined the project team of Dr Haonan Li, Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace, focusing on path planning of milling tool for complex parts and machine tool optimisation. “The problems solved are real demands from the industry, which makes the students' research more purposeful and practical,” said Dr Li.

Focusing on students’ experiences and respecting each student’s innovation and creativity, the summer research programmes have developed rapidly over the past ten years. A UNNC team won third prize in the international group in the RoboMaster competition founded by DJI. The team members started their own business after graduation to develop adaptive electronic suspension control systems suitable for two wheeled vehicles. In addition, four projects from the Innovation Lab headed to compete in this year's Challenge Cup.

“After years of exploration, we are pleased to see that students have not only found their own interests and research direction, but also discovered a new possibility for knowledge transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship,” said Professor Tao Wu, Dean of FoSE.

In his opinion, the SEP reflects the concept of student-centred international talent cultivation and quality control of higher education of UNNC. Currently, all engineering undergraduate programmes (except new programmes) at UNNC have obtained international accreditation, as well as multiple other programmes such as Architecture, Computer Science and Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence. Through interactive and heuristic project-based teaching and individual or team-based programmes, FoSE helps student to improve their innovation, design abilities, cross-cultural communication skills, as well as helping to develop independent and engineering thinking modes. It has also cultivated generations of graduates favored by world-class institutions and enterprises.

文字来源 | Lily Su,王旭晖

图片来源 | 王旭晖，李灏楠，李波

English | Elena Yang,ETT

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