By Li Han
Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center
A celebration to mark the 75th anniversary of the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology was held on April 28th. Mr. Zhou Ji, Minister of Education, Mr. Yang Yue, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of China’s Communist Youth League, Professor Yi Hong, President of Southeast University, and Tsinghua Vice President Wang Jinsong as well as alumni attended the celebration.
As an alumna of the Department, Minister Zhou Ji extended his congratulations and best wishes to the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology.
Tsinghua Vice President Wang Jinsong commended the Department for the achievements it has made in past years and expressed his hope that the teachers and students would promote further the development of the Department and continue to make cutting edge contributions to science and applied technology at Tsinghua and in China.
The ancestor of the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology at Tsinghua University was the former Department of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering. Founded in 1932, its name was later changed to the Deptartment of Machine Manufacturing as a result of the nationwide restructuring of colleges and universities in 1952. The Deptartment of Machine Manufacturing was again restructured as the Department of Precision Instruments and Machine Manufacturing in 1960 and renamed in 1978 the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology.
The Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology is an interdisciplinary department which has earned a strong reputation for cutting edge research and innovation in China and around the world. In recent years, with rapid scientific advances in electronics, computer science, automation and control, and laser technology as well as in modern machine design, modern manufacturing engineering, modern control and information technology, the department has continuously broken new ground in advanced scientific research and applied technology. As a major source in China of innovation, the Department has made significant contributions to the needs of national economic reconstruction. The Department’s unique interdisciplinary focus has gradually built up a firm ground for research interactions and symbiosis among its mechanical, optical, and electronic disciplines.
(Photo by Cui Kai)
