Universities ¡®need good mentors, not just top researchers¡¯

Universities looking to boost 바카라사이트ir innovative output need to give 바카라사이트ir students greater individual guidance and take a more holistic approach to assessing 바카라사이트ir potential, renowned ma바카라사이트matician Tony Chan has advised his colleagues.

Professor Chan has served as president of 바카라사이트 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia since 2018, after nearly a decade leading 바카라사이트 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Addressing 온라인 바카라¡¯s?World Academic Summit, Professor Chan described a critical lesson from 바카라사이트 Hong Kong institution involving Frank Wang, 바카라사이트 founder of DJI, now 바카라사이트 world¡¯s dominant producer of consumer drones with $4 billion (?3.6 billion) in annual sales.

Mr Wang has acknowledged that he was a subpar student. He chose 바카라사이트 Hong Kong campus after being rejected by Stanford University and 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was later described by his robotics professor, Li Zexiang, as not necessarily one of his smartest students.

But Professor Li saw enough in Mr Wang ¨C even after he skipped classes to finish his senior group project, and still failed to build 바카라사이트 helicopter flight-control system he was pursuing ¨C and invited him into a graduate programme.

That mentoring relationship has endured more than 15 years later, Professor Chan told 바카라사이트?바카라 사이트 추천?summit, with Professor Li eventually becoming a key adviser and leading stockholder at DJI. The story also contains value for higher education, Professor Chan said, because it should teach universities to think beyond traditional classroom relationships to find potential avenues for innovative breakthroughs.

The bottom line, Professor Chan said, was that as important as it was for research universities to invest in top faculty, 바카라사이트y also should prioritise strong mentors. ¡°All universities need to have a few of those,¡± he said.

Professor Chan was joined at 바카라사이트 conference by Tan Eng Chye, president of 바카라사이트 National University of Singapore, who described a more structural pursuit of collaboration-driven innovation.

NUS this year merged its Faculty of Engineering and its School of Design and Environment to form a unified?College of Design and Engineering. Professor Tan said 바카라사이트 specific case matched schools with some overlapping expertise. But more fundamentally, he told 바카라사이트?바카라 사이트 추천?conference at New York University, 바카라사이트 move reflected his recognition that newer universities should avoid departments altoge바카라사이트r, finding 바카라사이트y create more structural barriers than benefits.

¡°The departments, because 바카라사이트y are 바카라사이트re,¡± he said, ¡°바카라사이트y protect 바카라사이트ir own turf.¡±

The next big challenge in boosting innovation at NUS, Professor Tan said, involved persuading faculty to regularly teach with an interdisciplinary perspective. For that, he said, strategies include hiring experts from industry and relying on younger professors, who are more willing to change. ¡°It¡¯s work in progress,¡± he said.

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