On the afternoon of March 22, 2019, the 2018 FESTO Scholarship AwardingCeremony of the Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering of Zhejiang University was held in the conference room on the fourth floor of the hydraulic old building of Yuquan Campus. Leo Zhang,Personnel Director of FESTO, Ashley Ma, Personnel Specialist, XuBing, Director of the Department of Mechanical and ElectronicEngineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Professor Lei Yong and deputy Professor Xie Jin, Professor Li Dejun, Director of theInstitute of Mechanical and Electronic Control Engineering ProfessorLiu Tao, Director of the Institute of Micro-Nano Technology and precision Engineering, Associate Professor Liu Wei and DeputyMechanical and Electronic Engineering students attended the ceremony.
At the beginning of the ceremony, Professor Xie Jin represented all the teachers and students of the Department of Mechanical and electrical engineering and expressed warm welcome to the guests. FESTO is a world-leading R&D and manufacturing company of pneumatic components and systems. It has a pivotal position in the pneumatic industry and a global leader in automation technology. In recent years, it has also achieved a series of innovative breakthroughs in the field of bionic robots. The result.
LeoZhang expressed his congratulations to the award-winning students, and detailed the development history, research and development platform and development plan of the company. He reviewed the development of the company and hoped that more outstanding students from Zhejiang University would join.
Subsequently, the company representatives presented awards to the winning students. This year, 10 undergraduate students and 16 graduate students received FESTO scholarships. The award-winning student representative delivered a speech.
At the end of the award ceremony, Professor Xu Bing expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the donation. FESTO and Zhejiang University have maintained a good cooperative relationship for a long time. In the 1990s, FESTO established the “Zhejiang University-FESTOPneumatic Technology Center” with Zhejiang UniversityElectromechanical Institute, and strongly supported the teaching and research work of Zhejiang University in the field of pneumatics. At the same time, FESTO has established a “FESTO Scholarship” for students majoring in mechanical electronics at ZhejiangUniversity, which has made important contributions to supporting the teaching and student development of the department.