M.U.S.T. Faculty of Information Technology Graduate Students Win First Prize at the 14th China Graduate Electronics Design Contest

At the “Zhaoyi Innovation Cup” 14th China Graduate Electronics Design Contest final, the M.U.S.T. team won the national first prize in the technology category. The team is made up of three graduate students from Faculty of Information Technology, Zhou Shengzhi, Chen Guo and Zhong Zeran, and their winning work is titled “Half-Bridge Resonant DC-DC Converters Based on Integrated Variable Frequency and Phase Shift”. By way of a complex control mechanism featuring an integration of switching frequency adjustment and phase shift, the students’ work explores the soft-switching work range of a type of high-intensity DC-to-DC converter; the technique also suppresses circulating current, which effectively improves the efficiency of power transmission. The team was coached by Associate Prof. Li Xiaodong, who had successfully cached the electric-electronic laboratory team in 2016 and won the first prize of the South China region and the second national prize at the 11th China Graduate Electronics Design Contest, as well as the first prize of the South China region at the 12th China Graduate Electronics Design Contest in 2017.

M.U.S.T. graduates won the national 1st prize at the 14th China Graduate Electronics Design Contest

Award-winning students and the coach (from left: Zhong Zeran, Chen Guo, Associate Prof. Li Xiaodong, and Zhou Shengzhi)

The final of the 14th China Graduate Electronics Design Contest was jointly organized by the China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center, the Chinese Institute of Electronics and the Children & Youth Science Center of China Association for Science and Technology. At the preliminary round, a total of 3,393 pieces of participating works were submitted from 17,000 persons across universities and research institutes nationally. After regional assessment by the eight contest regions, the national final was held in Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology from August 14 to 18, 2019. A total of 400 pieces of work by over 1,300 students from 132 universities and institutes entered the final, including University of Reading, U.K., Taiwan Dong Hwa University, Macau University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, and Harbin Institute of Technology. The participating works cover a wide range of fields, including microelectronics, electronic sciences, computer, telecommunications and mechanics.

The China Graduate Electronics Design Contest was launched in 1996. It opens to in-study graduate students of universities and research institutes across the nation, is a team-based project for creative ideas on electronics design. It aims to promote reform and innovation in ways of training graduate students for the field of information and electronics in universities and institutes, guide graduate students to practice their innovative ideas and enhance their basic abilities and team-spirited humanistic qualities, nurture an atmosphere of linking theories with practices, improve practical skills of graduate students, and provide opportunities for extraordinary talents to stand out.