Chapter 97 A bright future
"Um...Commissioner Sun, it's my fault for not checking this matter properly and carefully checking the submitted application documents."
Just when Yu Fei could hardly help but stand up and argue, the dean, who had been sitting next to him without speaking a word, noticed his excitement and quickly spoke up:
"But what Associate Professor Yu just said is not unreasonable. No one has studied it, which means we have originality."
"If a limited amount of funds can be allocated for more detailed preliminary demonstration, I think we can definitely produce results with higher precision and better consistency."
Seeing the dean speak, Sun Xianmin's expression softened slightly, and the atmosphere in the entire conference room was not as tense as before.
Ling Na next to her spoke again:
"Dean Ji, you know that the Science and Technology Commission has a complete set of procedures for establishing projects and appropriating funds for college teachers. We can understand that young teachers are fearless, but scientific research funds are limited after all. Here In this case, we can only give priority to research topics that are proven and have less risk."
Obviously, although the person in charge of singing the red face has a much better attitude than Sun Xianmin, he has no intention of letting up on this matter.
"This is obviously an opportunity to overtake in a corner." Yu Fei obviously still refused to give up and was ready to continue struggling, his tone also full of sorrow:
"You keep saying that you are paying attention to the directions that developed countries are paying attention to, but there are only so many ways to increase the compressor pressure ratio. What are the developed countries studying? Increasing the tip speed, increasing the blade camber angle, and modifying the geometric structure!"
"Their research on the basic field of air flow inside the blade is at least 20 to 30 years ahead of us, not to mention blade materials and manufacturing processes. If we keep following others like this, how can we narrow the gap with them? difference?"
"Associate Professor Yu, the idea of launching satellites to catch up with the Premier League and the United States is no longer feasible in today's era."
Sun Xianmin leaned back on his chair and tapped the table frivolously with the pen in his hand:
"Our entire department receives hundreds of project applications every month, and the content of each one is similar to what you said. They all say that they can catch up with the international advanced level, but we can't just approve hundreds of them just because of these. With RMB 10,000 in scientific research funding, no one can bear this responsibility.”
"..."
Yu Fei's mind started to heat up and he almost blurted out: "Take responsibility? If you are afraid of taking responsibility, then doing nothing is the safest thing!"
But the last trace of reason allowed him to control himself and just opened his mouth.
Although there were still thousands of words in my mind, I didn't continue talking after all.
Obviously, the two sides are not considering the same thing at all.
What he is talking about is the realization of technological prospects, while the other party is concerned about the implementation of specific responsibilities.
It’s not about right or wrong.
There is no point in continuing to dwell on it.
No one can convince anyone.
So the approval defense ended hastily in a slightly embarrassing atmosphere.
Sun Xianmin and Ling Na even refused Dean Ji's request to stay with them for dinner.
……
"Ugh……"
After sending the two people away, Yu Fei sat on the sofa in the dean's office with some disappointment.
He is a relatively pure scientific researcher.
This feeling of having clearly grasped a thread among thousands of threads, but being unable to continue due to non-technical reasons, and watching the opportunity slip away from your hands little by little, is very bad.
More importantly, Yu Fei could not accept the thinking of the two people just now.
Scientific research itself should be a process of constant trial and error, finding a way out after hitting the wall again and again.
Failure itself is valuable to science.
If you simply refuse to approve funds or projects because you are worried about failure, it is tantamount to giving up food because of choking.
On the other side of the office, Dean Ji was sitting behind his desk.
Looking at Yu Fei who was like a deflated rubber ball, he raised his head and thought for a moment, seeming to be struggling with some decision.
Finally, after a few minutes, he turned his attention back to Yu Fei on the sofa:
"Teacher Yu, in fact, the concerns of those two people just now are not unreasonable."
"There are some things you may not know. At the beginning of this year, the Science and Technology Committee sent people to conduct an inspection on the completion of projects in several directly affiliated schools."
"Project verification?" Yu Fei raised his head: "Isn't it done every year? Do you need to write a year-end summary report?"
"Of course it's different." Dean Ji shook his head: "You and I both know how much water can be put into the year-end summary report and even the final report, and the higher-ups naturally know it too."
"So at the beginning of the year, we sent expert teams to each school through random inspections."
Yu Fei has never undertaken a vertical project issued by the Science and Technology Commission before, so he naturally knows nothing about it, but he can guess the general situation even from Dean Ji's tone:
"The result...is not optimistic?"
"It's not just pessimistic, it's just chaos..." Dean Ji picked up the cup and took a sip of water, hiding his expression well:
"I can't say too specific things, but in short, the group of people responsible for the review and appraisal of previous projects have left a lot, like the two people who just came, they are all new ones."
"This……"
After thinking about it like this, although Yu Fei still felt very unhappy, at least he felt that the behavior of the two people just now was not so illogical.
But from another perspective, I am afraid that for a long time to come, the project approval system of the Science and Technology Commission system will become extremely strict.
He also knew that his project application was indeed not very complete in terms of feasibility demonstration.
And if you want to make groundbreaking results, there is no way around it.
Of course, in the final analysis, everything is caused by insufficient funds.
"That means... there is no hope at all?"
Yu Fei's voice was dry, and even became a lot shriller after he spoke.
Although this was a question, he actually no longer had any hope, so his voice was low as if he was talking to himself, and while speaking, he stood up in a daze and prepared to leave the office.
"Not necessarily..."
These three words pulled Yu Fei's body back to the sofa.
"I have also read your project application. Although the data is a bit rough, but... the prospects are indeed there."
"I happen to have an old buddy. One of his students is currently studying computational fluid dynamics analysis. It is said that the calculation results are very reliable. If you are willing to cooperate, I can contact you."
"You know, experiments in the field of aerodynamics are time-consuming and costly. Even if the computer simulation methods there are not as accurate as they say, at least they are short and cost-effective, and they can improve your experimental data. "
Yu Fei's eyes lit up when he heard this.
"No problem at all!"
