UESTC visits UTAR

A delegation from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) visited Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Petaling Jaya Campus on 19 November 2012.

The members of the delegation comprised International Student Affairs Section Chief, Lin Min, Director of Present Teaching Affairs Office of the Graduate School, Tian Mi, and the School of Management and Economics assistant professor, Sherry Shen Ruichen.

On hand to receive the first-time visitors were UTAR Division of Community and International Networking Director, Dr Tan Sin Leng, Centre for Extension Education Director, Lim Guat Yen and the Division of Corporate Communication and Institutional Research Deputy Director, Ong Soo Weon.

The main aim of the visit was to identify common grounds and explore opportunities and avenues for collaboration between the two institutions, which include in-bound and out-bound student exchange programmes, summer camps, training and suitable short courses such as English Language proficiency and Eco-tourism short courses for students.

UESTC (formerly Chengdu Institute of Radio Engineering) is renowned as China's cradle for the national electronic industry and is situated at Chengdu, the city of over a thousand-year-old cultural history.

UESTC was established on the basis of the integration of electronic division of three universities including Jiaotong Universities, Nanjing Institute of Technology and South China Institute of Technology in 1956. As one of the seven earliest key universities in national defense, UESTC became one of the nation's key universities in 1960.

 

Exchanging mementos (from left): Dr Tan, Ong, Lim, Lin, Sherry and Tian