Chapter 741: If you can’t do math, you just can’t

Of course, having said all that, independent venues and subway lines are still under planning.

Especially the subway.

If it is built too far away, the meaning of the initial planning will be lost, and if it is built too close, it may affect the operation of some highly sophisticated experimental devices.

Therefore, it is necessary to adopt a different technical route from the normal track, and even consider setting up a special shielding layer.

Even if the approval for the construction is approved, detailed communication must be communicated with the municipal transportation unit.

In short, it is difficult to completely solve the problem in the next one or two years.

Therefore, during this period of time, Chang Haonan still had to set up his laboratory on the main campus of Jinghang University.

After the guests and hosts had a good time, Chang Haonan sent the big guys to the car respectively.

But Tang Lintian stayed.

After all, a school-enterprise joint laboratory involves hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and the development of more than a dozen students and teachers. It is definitely not something that can be done just by shaking hands and announcing it.

Although most of the contracts and procedures have been completed before, there are still many trivial but important details that need to be determined personally by the leaders of both parties.

"By the way, Professor Chang."

Tang Lintian followed Chang Haonan into the office, but he did not sit down immediately. Instead, he skillfully came to the cabinet by the wall and looked up and down:

"Actually, I have been thinking in the past two years, is our talent training somewhat out of touch with social needs?"

In fact, Chang Haonan doesn't know much about talent training, but at this time, he can't spread his hands and say, let's change the topic. Besides, he is looking at someone who is going to be a doctoral supervisor. This is different from what he led in the research institute in his previous life. Being an apprentice is not the same thing, so I continued following the other person’s topic:

"How to say?"

"Actually, I didn't feel it before, but after you and Professor Liu started that course in the past two years, the gap has been clearly felt."

Tang Lin couldn't find the tea he wanted for a long time, so he had to turn around and sit back on the sofa next to him to drink boiled water:

"The first batch of master's students who have taken that course finished their second year of graduate studies this summer and just entered internships. Judging from the feedback results, it is obvious that this content is very valuable and can often be directly used in actual work. "

"I've even heard that some students will specifically write down their grades in this course on their resumes as a highlight when looking for an internship..."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute..."

Chang Haonan listened to the other party's remarks and became more and more biased, so he quickly interrupted:

"First of all, that class was taught by Teacher Fang. I just went up and gave him a few words during his first class the year before last..."

"Hey...don't worry about these details."

Tang Lintian waved his hand:

"You were responsible for compiling the textbooks used in the theoretical classes, and you were also responsible for developing the computing tools used in the practical classes. You also said that you have never taught students?"

"In your case, even if you have never taught students directly, you can still be considered a half-teacher at least, let alone have been on the stage once. Judging from my experience, after a few years after graduation, students may not remember I can’t remember the name of the teacher who gave the lecture, but whenever I look up the textbook, the editor’s name is always written on it.”

Seeing that Chang Haonan no longer refuted, Tang Lintian paused for a moment and returned to the original topic:

“What I just wanted to say is that, inspired by this course, I was wondering whether we could consider offering more courses that are close to reality, and on the other hand, whether we could consider allowing students to start as early as possible, such as in their second year of undergraduate studies or In the third grade, you started to get involved in actual research and development or engineering projects?”

At this time, Chang Haonan finally understood.

In terms of teaching numerical calculation methods, Beijing Airlines is undoubtedly at the forefront of universities across the country and even the world.

This leadership is undoubtedly one of the important reasons why Beijing Airlines can become an initial member of the "985 Project".

After Tang Lintian tasted this sweetness, he would naturally want to go further.

However, as a reborn person, Chang Haonan knew that this kind of thing could not be repeated even if he did not understand education:

"Principal Tang, the focus of education is stability and continuity. That course has been very effective in the past two years because when the textbook was written, the content in it reached, or I can say with certainty, far exceeded Cutting-edge of the times.”

"But as more and more researchers pay attention to numerical calculations, its development speed will be much faster than in the past. If nothing else, the new version of TORC Multiphysics that I plan to launch next has already reached the same level as that book. The trial version in the textbook is very different.”

"In the future, we may upgrade the software every six months to a year, but it is impossible to update the textbooks every six months to a year. Therefore, the key is to lay a solid foundation. The knowledge learned in college is eternal. , no matter how advanced it was at the time, it will become obsolete sooner or later, but the learning ability learned is alive and can always be used.”

At this point, Tang Lintian already had an enlightened expression on his face.

Just when he thought Chang Haonan was going to come up with some earth-shattering plan, the latter suddenly changed the subject and suddenly saw:

"When it comes to numerical calculations, in my opinion this thing never changes away from its roots."

"So, if you really want our students to adapt to the times faster, then offer more basic mathematics courses in the first and second years of college, especially mathematical analysis and linear algebra. As the foundation of the basics, we must pay more attention to it. , I suggest that the number of class hours be increased by at least 50%, and the proportion of the final paper score in the total grade should be increased!”

"Cough-cough-"

As soon as these words came out, not to mention the future students, even the principal Tang Lintian almost choked and a lot of water in the cup spilled out.

As the saying goes, "Your eyes will deceive you, your ears will deceive you. Your experience will deceive you, your imagination will deceive you, but mathematics will not, and mathematics will not."

From elementary school to graduate school, mathematics is definitely the most troublesome subject for most students.

"You are not leaving any way for your juniors to survive..."

Tang Lintian wiped the sweat from his forehead. He had already thought that if he really did this, he, the principal, would be scolded to death.

Moreover, the failure rate may skyrocket in the short term, which is not a good look for the school. .

However, in the long run, it can indeed help improve students' abilities.

"I can't talk about the issue of undergraduate training. I still have to go back and discuss it before making a decision."

Tang Lintian felt that he had to give himself a buffer first.

This is his first year as the principal. It would be really stressful if he had to do such a hard job right from the start.

After all, strict supervision of mathematics teaching not only tests students, but also tests teachers.

"Let me talk about another thing first, which is to let middle and senior undergraduate students participate in research and development or engineering projects..."

Chang Haonan waved his hand to interrupt the other party.

He knew that his magical performance back then gave Tang Lintian some unrealistic thoughts, but he couldn't clearly say that he was cheating, so he had to choose a more circuitous route:

"This matter is the same as what I just said."

“Whether undergraduates enter the laboratory or participate in projects, they must first ensure that they have sufficient ability foundation and can quickly invest in the project after being exposed to it. If it is just a simple start and do some repetitive work with no nutrition, Then I think it’s better to use this time to arrange more math classes.”

Tang Lintian put on the mask of pain again.

"Let's do this, Principal Tang."

After a moment of silence, Chang Haonan gave a "compromise" condition:

"Torch Group can provide Beijing Airlines undergraduates with some opportunities to participate in non-confidential projects, but before that, they must pass our group's ability assessment, how about that?"