法国工程师教育为中国民用航空人才“插上翅膀”
French Engineer Education Add Wings to Civil Aviation Talents
(Xinhua NEWS Agency, Tianjin, Wang Hui, Song Rui) Huo Baiming, a Tianjin student, is about to graduate from Sino-European Institute of Aviation Engineering(SIAE) with a master degree of Civil Aviation University of China(CAUC) and a French Engineer Diploma certified by CTI. After graduation, he will set off to Shanghai to work for Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China(COMAC), China's leading civil aircraft R&D and manufacturing company.
Cofounded by CAUC and GEA group, SIAE was established in 2007. It is the first Engineer Institute introduced by Civil Aviation Industry. French Engineer Education system enjoys a history of more than 200 years, playing an important role in the French higher education system.
Professor Yang Xinsheng, the co-director of SIAE, is very proud of his students“Our students enjoy profound mathematical foundation, systematic thinking, broad professional knowledge, engineering practicability, innovation capabilities, cross-cultural communication and communication skills. They are familiar with the operation, manufacturing and R&D of civil aviation.
SIAE students in theoretical courses
Professor Yang Xinsheng introduced that SIAE enjoys a two-stage education model: preparatory cycle and engineer cycle. The engineer education is undertaken by a team consisting of Chinese teachers and more than 50 French teachers. Until now, SIAE has fostered more than 350 graduates with a consecutive 5 years , and early graduates have become the backbone of airlines.
Sino-French and Sino-European aviation cooperation has been in existence for a long time. CAUC and French Universities cooperated and established a mastered program named “Master of Sino-European Aviation Safety Management” in 2001. So far, it has cultivated more than 700 aviation safety management talents for China’s civil aviation industry." Professor Bai Jie, vice president of CAUC, told reporters that in recent years, CAUC and especially the teachers and students of SIAE, provided important service and technical support in key aviation projects such as C919 aircraft’s research and development.
“In the future, SIAE will make more contributions to the technological innovation, production practices and social services of China’ Civil Aviation Industry,” he said.
In 2006, the Airbus’s final assembly line was settled in Tianjin, only a few minutes’ drive from CAUC. This is the first Airbus widebody aircraft completion and delivery center outside Europe.
SIAE students’ internship in the Electronic Communications Laboratory of ENAC
Liu Chang, the HR manager of Airbus(Tianjin) Final Assembly Line, told the reporters that there are currently 5 SIAE graduates in the company. “They enjoy a solid theoretical foundation and strong system thinking skills, fluent in English and French, able to provide a straightforward solution locally and improve our work efficiency.”
"International cooperation in aviation is indispensable. France is in a leading position in aviation industry, and Sino-French cooperation is mutually beneficial." French teacher Joel who came to China in 2008 and has been working in SIAE for nearly 11 years. he told reporters that the introduction of this educational model to China is conducive to the cultivation of more elite aviation talents with professional competence and international perspective.
In recent years, the belt and road initiative cooperation and cooperation in third-party market forged ahead steadily. We have achieved new results in aerospace, aviation and so on. According to data from the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, the bilateral trade volume between China and France exceeded 20 billion US dollars in 2018, a record high. The spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce said that in the future, China will continue to deepen cooperation with France in traditional fields such as aerospace and aviation, and push bilateral economic and trade cooperation to a new level.
