Stevens and major university in China sign memorandum

Stevens Institute of Technology and Southeast University (SEU) of Nanjing, People's Republic of China, have signed a memorandum of understanding, setting the stage for future cooperation and exchange, with an emphasis on graduate education. (Please visit the SEU homepage at www.seu.edu.cn/~seue for further information.) It is the third such signing between Stevens and a major university in the PRC this year.

The memorandum with SEU provides for measures to promote student exchange between the two universities, opportunities for exchange of faculty and administrators, collaborative research in civil and electrical engineering, wireless communication, information systems, and other areas to be jointly determined. There are also provisions made for joint special summer academic programs and seminars.

Wu Jieyi, Senior Vice President of Southeast University, signed the document Dec. 7 during a visit to the Stevens campus. Stevens' Vice President for University Enrollment and Academic Services, Maureen Weatherall, signed the memorandum for the Institute.

Founded in 1902 as Sanjiang Normal College, SEU is one of the key national universities administered directly under the Ministry of Education in China. The university comprises more than 40 schools or departments, spread over five campuses. It holds the national lead in areas such as architecture, civil engineering, electronics, IT, energy, power engineering, and transportation technology. It is accredited by the State Council to approve the qualifications of professor, associate professor and doctorial supervisor.

The two other universities in China now joined by memorandum with Stevens are the Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics in Changchun and the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai.

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