On March 22-23, 2025, the Beijing Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition, organized by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission and co-hosted by Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA), successfully concluded at Daxing campus. This competition also served as the provincial qualifier for the 2025 National Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition. This year’s event featured four tracks: New Energy Vehicles, “Smart +”, Virtual Simulation, and Engineering Makers, with a total of 11 categories. 205 teams from 24 universities, including Tsinghua University, took part in the competition.

Opening Ceremony

The event was attended by experts and leaders including WANG Jiaqi, Deputy Director of the Higher Education Division of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and CHEN Hongbing, Vice President of BUCEA.

CHEN Hongbing warmly welcomed all experts, judges, faculty, and students from partner universities attending the competition. He shared BUCEA’s recent achievements and encouraged participants to apply their knowledge into practice and continue to grow by gaining hands-on experience.

WANG Jiaqi spoke highly of the competition’s role in advancing higher education reform and talent development. He encouraged participants to embrace craftsmanship, develop resilience through challenges, and broaden their horizons through collaboration.

FU Tie provided an overview of the competition on behalf of the organizing committee.

QI Haitao from Beihang University and YANG Di, a student representative from BUCEA, took the oaths on behalf of the judges and participants respectively.

Event Highlights

This year’s competition aimed to develop future engineers capable of tackling global sustainability challenges. It focused on enhancing students’ engineering creativity, emphasizing the integration of theory and practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, industry-academia partnerships, as well as the fusion of science, engineering, and humanities.

This year, over 10 specialized companies, including Datang (Inner Mongolia) Energy Development Co., Ltd., were invited by the organizing committee to showcase their industry results at the event. BUCEA has collaborated with top industry players to establish the School of Energy Technology and Modern Industry, with Datang providing substation simulation training systems and photovoltaic module testing equipment, enabling resource sharing between universities and top enterprises. BUCEA is also planning to jointly offer high-quality industry-academia courses with enterprises and build new scenario-based practical teaching bases.

The competition invited BUCEA Affiliated Secondary School and BUCEA Affiliated Primary School, among others, to exhibit their student projects. Over 100 teachers and students were invited to watch the competition, where they had the chance to see cutting-edge engineering technology and undergraduate innovations firsthand.

Successful Conclusion

The competition came to a successful conclusion on March 23.

Winners of the BUCEA division of the competition included 16 Grand Prizes, 16 First Prizes, 22 Second Prizes in the category of temperature difference-powered vehicles; 20 Grand Prizes, 20 First Prizes, 27 Second Prizes in the category of Smart Logistics; 12 Grand Prizes, 12 First Prizes, 14 Second Prizes in the category of Engineering Scenario Digitalization; and 5 Grand Prizes, 8 First Prizes, 8 Second Prizes in the category of Engineering Culture.