Tsinghua Professional Learning Insights
Engineering and humanities intertwine,theory resonates with practice.
Countless refinements in the laboratory,
passion grows under the spotlight,the sparks of thought collide in interdisciplinary classrooms,the muddy paths and starlight of field investigations —
every major is a window,reflecting the essence of Tsinghua people:
grounded in “pragmatism” and soaring with “innovation”,allowing textbook knowledge to flourish in practice,opening a single field to infinite possibilities.
Their stories await your discovery —
This Issue’s Featured Person
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
Undergraduate Student, Class of 2022
Zhang Shihao
Zhang Shihao
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My Perspective on the Discipline of Electronic Information
The discipline of electronic information at Tsinghua is not limited to a single line within the engineering system, but aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the overall structure of the information age. From simple circuits to complex chips, from the underlying logic of semiconductor materials to the intricate architecture of large communication systems, from directly interacting with the computer’s low-level MIPS instructions to training and optimizing neural networks, all of these are part of our learning content.
The four-year undergraduate study process has made me feel that the various courses are interconnected, and the knowledge framework gradually becomes clear; what seems like a complex course system has a clear context. After understanding the overall picture of electronic information, I have also gradually found my area of interest, with the opportunity to delve deeper into the field that suits me best.
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Learning by Writing and Doing
As an ever-evolving and iterative engineering science, the electronic department has provided me with not only knowledge from textbooks but also experience from experiments.
When the balance car I built using PWM control stands steadily, when I write my own FPS game framework with thousands of lines of C# code, when the oscilloscope displays a perfect waveform, when I measure my heart rate curve using a cascaded circuit, I gradually find the perfect mapping of abstract theorems and formulas from textbooks to reality. Those sleepless nights spent debugging and tuning parameters have become my most precious memories during my undergraduate years. Another memorable experience is the major projects in the electronic department’s courses, such as writing my own pipelined CPU in Verilog, creating a face recognition system in Matlab, using Kalman filtering to restore the running trajectory on the Zijing playground, and capturing Beidou satellite signals. These seemingly difficult and distant projects from textbooks have shown us how close what we learn in the classroom is to real-world applications.
Each time I complete a major project, it feels like finishing a real engineering project, and the excitement and sense of accomplishment are enough to make me forget all the fatigue.Students in the electronic department sometimes feel that the course difficulty is high, but they always quietly take notes in the classroom, type out lines of code in front of the screen, and connect wires in the laboratory. I believe it is this recognition of the profession itself that has motivated us to go this far.
Prototype of the self-balancing car from the hardware design competition
Measuring my ECG with an oscilloscope
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Stepping Out of Campus, Stepping into the World
My learning and growth in the Tsinghua electronic department extend beyond the campus. During the winter and summer vacations, I have participated in domestic and international practices organized by the electronic department five times, visiting places such as Sichuan, Guangdong, Macau, Fujian, Boston, and New York in the United States, educating myself through practice, developing skills, and contributing to society, while giving back the knowledge learned in school and drawing growth that cannot be found in textbooks from society.
In Fujian, we taught microcontrollers to high school students, igniting their interest in electronics and passion for innovation; in the United States, we discussed the future development of artificial intelligence with local professors; in Shenzhen, discussions with enterprises revealed new development directions…From teaching microcontrollers in the classroom of Minnan Middle School, to discussing artificial intelligence in a Boston laboratory, to dialogues on the cutting edge of industry in Shenzhen’s innovation park, these practical experiences serve as bridges connecting the code in the laboratory with the pulse of the real world. They have made me deeply realize that electronic information professionals must not only master the language of signals and systems but also understand the unspoken book of social needs — this is the most precious second classroom that Tsinghua’s electronic department has given us.
Teaching microcontrollers at Jianou No. 1 High School in Fujian Province
Practicing in Boston, USA
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