Overcoming Challenges, Welcoming the Bright Future
Time flies like an arrow! The year 2025 has passed, and the new year is arriving in instantly! Here, on behalf of the School of CHIPS, I extend the warmest greetings and thanks to all students, teachers, staff, as well as the parents and the loved ones who care about our School of CHIPS! Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Since its establishment, the School of CHIPS at the XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang) has been committed to cultivating innovative talents in the fields of microelectronics and integrated circuits, and actively practicing the concept of integrated education. Over the past two years (2024-2025), the School has achieved significant development and profound changes in multiple dimensions, including the staff teams, student scale, infrastructure, industry-academia cooperation, academic research, and social influence as well as professional impacts!
First of all, we congratulate our first graduating class in 2025. Although there were only 18 students, they delivered an almost perfect performance for the School of CHIPS! Seventeen students pursued further studies abroad, including prestigious international universities such as the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and Lund University in Sweden. Only one student chose employment within China and he got his ideal job.
Since I returned to China to lead the School of CHIPS in January 2024 as the dean, I have implemented a series of reforms in teaching, research, leadership, and ecosystem. The aim is to build the School of CHIPS into an open, inclusive, democratic, diverse, and confident integrated science and education platform for cultivating global citizens who are capable, responsible, knowledgeable, possess critical thinking, and are confident for the chips and semiconductor fields!
In summary, the past two years were a crucial development stage for the School of CHIPS to consolidate its foundation and accelerate comprehensively. The School not only achieved quantitative expansion in personnel scale and hardware facilities but also realized qualitative leaps in the depth of industry-academia integration, the quality of research output, the level of student innovation, and social influence. These changes fully demonstrate the effectiveness of the School’s development strategy and lay a solid foundation for building a distinctive, first-class microelectronics School deeply integrated with industry and education in the future.
In the new year, our new goals are to double the student number, expand graduate student enrollment, recruit more high-level chip faculty, at the same time, to realize the 2+1+1 program with the University of Liverpool and build the School of CHIPS into a research and teaching platform with its own characteristics and international influence! Challenges will always exist, but by working hard and wisely together, I believe we can achieve the goals we have set for the new year.
New Year's Message
Overcoming Challenges, Welcoming the Bright Future
Time flies like an arrow! The year 2025 has passed, and the new year is arriving in instantly! Here, on behalf of the School of CHIPS, I extend the warmest greetings and thanks to all students, teachers, staff, as well as the parents and the loved ones who care about our School of CHIPS! Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Since its establishment, the School of CHIPS at the XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang) has been committed to cultivating innovative talents in the fields of microelectronics and integrated circuits, and actively practicing the concept of integrated education. Over the past two years (2024-2025), the School has achieved significant development and profound changes in multiple dimensions, including the staff teams, student scale, infrastructure, industry-academia cooperation, academic research, and social influence as well as professional impacts!
First of all, we congratulate our first graduating class in 2025. Although there were only 18 students, they delivered an almost perfect performance for the School of CHIPS! Seventeen students pursued further studies abroad, including prestigious international universities such as the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and Lund University in Sweden. Only one student chose employment within China and he got his ideal job.
Since I returned to China to lead the School of CHIPS in January 2024 as the dean, I have implemented a series of reforms in teaching, research, leadership, and ecosystem. The aim is to build the School of CHIPS into an open, inclusive, democratic, diverse, and confident integrated science and education platform for cultivating global citizens who are capable, responsible, knowledgeable, possess critical thinking, and are confident for the chips and semiconductor fields!
In summary, the past two years were a crucial development stage for the School of CHIPS to consolidate its foundation and accelerate comprehensively. The School not only achieved quantitative expansion in personnel scale and hardware facilities but also realized qualitative leaps in the depth of industry-academia integration, the quality of research output, the level of student innovation, and social influence. These changes fully demonstrate the effectiveness of the School’s development strategy and lay a solid foundation for building a distinctive, first-class microelectronics School deeply integrated with industry and education in the future.
In the new year, our new goals are to double the student number, expand graduate student enrollment, recruit more high-level chip faculty, at the same time, to realize the 2+1+1 program with the University of Liverpool and build the School of CHIPS into a research and teaching platform with its own characteristics and international influence! Challenges will always exist, but by working hard and wisely together, I believe we can achieve the goals we have set for the new year.
Professor Wei Chen
Dean
School of CHIPS