The “SZTU-CUTL 2022 International Young Scholars Forum” is scheduled to be held in November 26th and 27th, 2022, aiming to build a high-level academic exchange platform for outstanding young scholars at home and abroad in the fields of transportation, logistics and vehicles. The College of Urban Transportation and Logistics sincerely invites outstanding young scholars at home and abroad to focus on academic frontiers, discuss academic hotspots, carry out academic exchanges and build bridges of friendship.

1.     Forum Theme

Modern Transportation and Logistics

2.     Main Fields

Transportation: Smart Operation and Maintenance of Urban Rail Transit, Low-carbon Sustainable Development of Transportation Infrastructure, Intelligent Transportation Detection and Sensing Technology

Vehicle Engineering: Intelligent Connected Vehicle Technology, New Energy Vehicle Technology

Logistics Management: Logistics Digitalization and Automation, Supply Chain Flexibility Development Mode

3.     Schedule

Online Forum：Nov 26 (Saturday)

Online Interview：Nov 27 (Sunday), for candidates who are willing to join SZTU

4.     Type of Talents

1）Discipline Leader (professor or distinguished professor)

2）Outstanding young talents (associate professor/assistant professor)

3）Postdoctoral researchers/Lecturers

5.        Application

5.1.  Application Materials

1）CV/Resume

2）Research and Teaching Plan

3）Representative academic papers (published in recent five years) and academic achievement

5.2.  Application Process

Please send application materials to suwen@sztu.edu.cn And indicate "SZTU-CUTL International Young Scholars Forum - Name - Research Field" in the subject of the email. We will review and issue the Invitation Letter as soon as we receive your materials. Due to the limited scale of the forum, please submit your application as early as possible. The invitees of the forum will receive the invitation email sent by the sponsor on November 20, 2022 at the latest. If no invitation is received after that date, the number of participants is full by default.

5.3.  Application Deadline

Nov 15, 2022

6.        Introduction Criteria

1）Discipline Leader (professor or distinguished professor)

Worked as an associate professor or above in a high-level university or research institution at home and abroad, or has been a key figure in technology in a world-renowned enterprise for a long time, has senior professional and technical qualifications in the industry, has rich industry experience, global vision, strong business ability, and has made influential achievements in the industry.

2）Outstanding young talents (associate professor/assistant professor)

Have a doctor's degree, more than 3 years of working experience in high-level research institutions at home and abroad, or well-known enterprises at home and abroad, higher professional and technical qualifications in the industry, good achievements in the industry, strong teaching ability, independent experience in undertaking important projects or achievements in high-level technology transformation; Or have the potential to achieve higher scientific research achievements or technological transformation results. For particularly excellent talents, the requirements can be appropriately relaxed and not subject to the above conditions.

3）Postdoctoral researchers/Lecturers

Under the age of 35, has gained the doctor's degree for no more than 3 years or is expected to get the doctor's degree before June 30, 2023. Has a strong sense of responsibility, good scientific integrity, enthusiasm for innovation, team spirit, independent research and work ability, and is keen on original work or major applied research.

7.        Contact

Contact Person: Lance (Su Wen)

Mobile：+86 13528837844

Email：suwen@sztu.edu.cn

College Website：utl.sztu.edu.cn

Introduction of SZTU

Shenzhen Technology University is an international, high-level and exemplary first-class public application-oriented university built with high standards in Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City. It was officially established on November 30, 2018 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The university was born under the background of the transformation and upgrading of the national industrial structure, and Shenzhen seizing the major opportunity of the construction of "two zones" to meet the development needs of high-end manufacturing industry. The university fully draws on the advanced school running experience of first-class technical universities in Germany, Switzerland and other developed countries, takes the establishment of first-class research and technology university as the strategic goal, and cultivates high-quality applied talents with global vision and innovation and entrepreneurship ability for the society.

The university is committed to serving the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, the Shenzhen Pilot Demonstration Area and the national major regional development strategy, helping the industrial transformation of the "Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area", exploring the highland of applied higher education talents, actively cooperating with leading backbone enterprises in the industry, bringing resources such as industry education integrated platform and international cooperation into postgraduate training, and building a talent training model driven by industrial demand, integrating learning and research, and integrating industry and education, as well as creating academic superior disciplines and brand majors.

Since its establishment, the university has continuously promoted the strategy of strengthening with talents and implemented the concept of "talents are the first resource". At present, a high-level, international and professional teaching team led by academicians, national high-end talents, overseas returnees and enterprise technical elites has been established with excellent quality, reasonable structure and school enterprise interaction. The scale of the teaching team is close to 500, with full-time teachers accounting for more than 80% of doctors, and high-level talents accounting for 65%. Most of them have overseas learning or working experience. The university always introduces outstanding doctors or postdoctoral personnel at home and abroad, pays attention to introducing chief technical engineers and R&D elites from well-known enterprises to enrich the teaching and research team, attracts talents with generous remuneration (salary and post awards), retains talents with career, cultivates talents, and helps talents to stand out.

Introduction of College of Urban Transportation and Logistics

In order to adapt to the new requirements and trends of industrial innovation and technological revolution and serve the development strategy of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, the College of Urban Transportation and Logistics has developed four majors, namely, Transportation, Vehicle Engineering, Automotive Service Engineering and Logistics Management, of which the Transportation major is the first-class major construction spot in Guangdong Province. The talent cultivation and discipline layout of the college closely follow the forefront of the industry, closely integrate with industrial services, highlight the interdisciplinary characteristics of transportation, vehicles, logistics, information, software and management, and comprehensively benchmark the scientific research and talent cultivation system of German universities of applied sciences. Based on the school running idea of "openness, diversity and cooperation", the college actively explores and practices the school running mode of industry university research collaborative education and science and technology collaborative innovation services, and signs cooperative agreements with Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning and Design Research Center, BYD Co., Ltd., Shunfeng Express Co., Ltd., etc; At present, the college has built research platforms such as Guangdong University Rail Transit Intelligent Operation and Maintenance Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangdong University Intelligent Terminal Precision Construction Engineering Technology Research Center, and Shenzhen Urban Rail Transit Key Laboratory.

In recent years, the college has been approved 77 vertical projects of various types (with a total amount of 26.165 million yuan), including 10 national projects, 19 provincial and ministerial projects and 13 municipal projects; 51 horizontal projects signed with enterprises (project funding amount 22.5592 million RMB); A total of 90 high-level papers were published (47 SCI papers, including 18 SCI area I papers and 9 SCI area II papers); It has obtained 103 patents and software authorizations.

In the next five years, the college discipline system and talent training mode will highlight the interdisciplinary laws arising from the cross integration of contemporary science, promote the deep integration of basic science and technical science, and build high-level teaching and research centers in the fields of transportation science and engineering, vehicle electromechanical science and engineering, machine intelligence science and engineering, manufacturing science and engineering, logistics management science and engineering, and full life cycle automotive service science, to form a certain industrial influence in Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area.