On October 15, 2021, LEEV Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. officially established a "Jiangsu Provincial Graduate Workstation" in collaboration with Nanjing Institute of Technology (NIT). The unveiling ceremony was held at Nanjing Institute of Technology.
Mr. Yang Wanguo, Chairman of LEEV, and Professor Zhu Xiaochun, Member of the Party Standing Committee and Vice President of Nanjing Institute of Technology, attended and jointly unveiled the plaque.
Participants from Nanjing Institute of Technology included Professor Zhu Xiaochun, Party Standing Committee Member and Vice President; Professor Chen Gui, Dean of the School of Automation; Professor Liu Hanzhong and Professor Liu Di, Associate Deans of the School of Automation; Professor Liu Yiting, Assistant Dean of the School of Automation; Dr. Zhang Li, Doctor of Automation and member of the Yixing Science and Technology Town Mayor Group; Mr. Wan Qi, Chief Engineer of the Jiangsu Robotics and System Integration Innovation Platform; and Dr. Tang Yudong from the Advanced Industrial Technology Research Institute.
Representing LEEV were Mr. Yang Wanguo, Chairman; Mr. Li Gongjun, Director of the Marketing Center; and Ms. Yang Xi, Director of the Management Center. The two sides held in-depth discussions on industry–academia–research collaboration, high-end talent cultivation, and the establishment and operation of the graduate workstation.
Nanjing Institute of Technology is a provincial undergraduate university with over a century of educational history, a strong foundation in engineering disciplines, and a distinctive application-oriented education model. The university has been approved for 10 Jiangsu Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Program Construction Sites, 9 Provincial Featured Programs, and 16 Jiangsu Provincial Key Programs, and serves as an Innovation Experimental Base for Mechanical Engineering Talent Training in Jiangsu Province.
The establishment of the graduate workstation will further strengthen cooperation and academic exchange between the university and the enterprise, support postgraduate education, and promote comprehensive upgrades in LEEV's production, research, and development capabilities. It marks an important step toward deeper school–enterprise collaboration and future-oriented innovation.
Leveraging the strengths and resources of both parties, the workstation aims to become a demonstration platform for cultivating innovative, interdisciplinary, and high-level research talents, while also developing a high-tech R&D platform with industrialization as its core objective. Through the integration of talent supply and industrial demand, the collaboration seeks to continuously enhance postgraduate training quality and provide sustained talent support for the intelligent manufacturing industry.
