On Oct. 25th, Chen Xu, vice chairman of the university council, welcomed Klaus Helmrich, CTO and member of the managing board of Siemens AG at Tsinghua University.
First of all, Chen Xu expressed her heartfelt thanks to Mr. Helmrich for his support on the cooperation between Tsinghua and Siemens over the years. She said, as early as in 1995, Tsinghua and Siemens had established a cooperative partnership. The cooperation on R&D made a great progress especially after the establishment of the Center for Knowledge Interchange in 2008, which is the highest level of R&D cooperation with university for Siemens worldwide. The year 2011 is the centenary of Tsinghua University. She hoped that the visit of Mr. Helmrich, at this special time, would continue to promote the comprehensive cooperation in areas of scientific R&D, personnel training and exchange.
Since Tsinghua University is one of Siemens’s most important research partners, Mr. Helmrich chose Tsinghua University as the first stop for his visit to Chinese universities, after his appointment as CTO of Siemens. He set a high value on the achievements resulting from the cooperation between Tsinghua and Siemens and expressed his wish to strengthen the partnership and promote the flagship cooperative projects in energy, environment and new materials.
At the meeting, Chen Xu and Mr. Helmrich also exchanged ideas and make detailed discussion on the future cooperative plans including building green campus, jointly organizing student competition and Siemens Science-Technology Innovation Day.
Attended the meeting were also related officials from Office of Scientific R&D, Department of Thermal Engineering and Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering.
Siemens AG is one of the biggest electronics and electrical engineering companies worldwide, operating in industry, energy and healthcare sectors. The cooperation between Tsinghua University and Siemens has been fruitful: in 2007, a strategic cooperative agreement was signed; in 2008, CKI was established; in 2009, a post-doctoral workstation authorized by Ministry of Personnel was set up; and in 2010, Siemens became a member of the University-Industry Cooperation Committee (UICC) of Tsinghua University.
