Philosophy: Sharing my knowledge with students to help prepare them for the challenges ahead is the most important commitment of my academic career. I believe it is vital that students find the class interesting, relevant, and fun. The purpose of teaching should be to impart skills, concepts, rules, and strategies, not just to convey factual or procedural information. It is especially important for engineering courses to show students not only the elegance and beauty of theory, but also the power of theory in solving real-world problems.
Regular Courses:
VE450, Major Design Experience (i.e., Capstone Course), Instructor/Coordinator, Summer/Fall 2010-present. [CFP] [PPT]
Responsibility: university corporate relations, proposal collection, project instruction, design expo, etc.
Projects: 611 projects total, including 361 industry-sponsored projects from 141 domestic and international companies such as GE, Intel, GM, HP, VMware, Rockwell, Bosch, Siemens, ABB, Comau, Panasonic, Midea, NIO, DiDi (as of Fall 2023).
Mentorship: averagely about 10-12 projects per year from 2010. The student teams under my mentorship have won Gold, Silver, Technical Innovation, and Best Teamwork awards at the past Capstone Design Expos.
VM552, Mechatronic Systems Design, Instructor, Summer 2010-2021. [Syllabus]
VG450, Global Multidisciplinary Design Project I, Co-Instructor with a UMich College-of-Engineering Faculty Member, Fall 2016-2019. [Flyer] [Video]
Comment from a UMich student: This past week I've been trying to think of a way to sum up the semester, and I think *** said it best at our farewell dinner for MDP... "So I wondered in the beginning of the semester, can this actually work? But the one thing I'm happy about, is that maybe across one whole ocean, we live completely apart, we are not so different after all."
VE216, Introduction to Signals and Systems, Instructor, Spring 2012-15. [Syllabus]
VM360, Modeling, Analysis and Control of Dynamic Systems, Instructor, Fall 2009. [Syllabus]
VE460/VM461, Control Systems Analysis and Design /Automatic Control, Instructor, Summer 2009. [Syllabus]
VE311, Electronic Circuits, Instructor, Fall 2008. [Syllabus]
Teaching Outreach (selected):
Lecturer, “China's New Energy Practices and Trends", Adani-Fulcrum Leadership Development Program at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Aug. 18, 2024, Shanghai, China.
Speaker, "Thoughts on Youth Science Education — From the Perspective of A University Faculty Member", Seminar on Science and Technology Education in the Digital Age: Current Situation, Problems and Future, Shanghai Youth Science Promotion Association Annual Meeting, Sep. 23, 2023, Shanghai, China.
Lecturer, “China's Electric Vehicle Industry and Outlook under the Background of Energy Transformation", Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Feb. 26, 2023, Shanghai, China.
Lecturer, “Expectations for Graduate Study — My Own Understanding and Practice”, Online Graduate Lecture Series, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, July 3, 2020, Shanghai, China. [PPT]
Lecturer, “Distributed Modeling and Management of Hybrid Energy Storage System and EV Charging Network”, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) Training Center, April 12, 2020, Shanghai, China.
Lecturer, “Energy Management and Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicle Applications”, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) Training Center, June 26, 2019, Shanghai, China.
Instructor and lecturer, “Driving the Future of the Automotive Industry” - Automotive Executive Development Program in cooperation with the UM-SJTU Joint Institute and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, April 28-May 12, 2017, Ann Arbor, Detroit, San Jose, and San Francisco, USA. [Brochure]
Undergraduate Research Mentorship (selected):
As the former chair of UM-SJTU JI’s undergraduate research committee, I have mentored many undergraduate projects. The following is a list of several representative projects:
National Renesas Super MCU Model Car Contests from 2008- 2010, 5 students/year
Infineon Cup in the East China Area, July 2011, 2 students
National/SJTU Undergraduate Innovational Experimentation Program
- Suspension and motion control emulation platform for maglev trains, 2014-2015, 4 students
- An Intelligent Display and Control Terminal System for EVs, 2013-2014, 2 students
- Low-cost auto-pilot unmanned aerial vehicle, 2011-2012, 4 students
- Unmanned helicopter for agriculture purpose, 2011-2012, 4 students
- Realization and control of small unmanned aerial vehicle based on the open source Paparazzi system, 2010-2011, 4 students
- Interactive commutations and control among vehicles-a case study of networked vehicles, 2010-2011, 3 students
- Design and research on spherical wheel chassis, 2009-2011, 4 students
Shanghai Undergraduate Innovational Experimentation Program
- Snake-like Rescue Robot, 2010-2011, 5 students