Since the establishment of Beihang Sino-French Engineer School in 2005, the school has been unremittingly exploring the establishment mode of international general engineer school in China, regarding the internationalization as the school evaluation goal and approach. Over 11 years, the school has received two evaluations from CTI (Commissiondes Titres d’Ingnieurs). Each time the evaluation was well prepared by the faculties of all levels, staff members and students at school under the guidance of the school leaders.
CTI evaluates global universities based on the standard that “engineers are able to raise problems and innovatively provide outstanding solutions for complicated issues including invention, design, manufacturing and implementation in terms of product, system, service, or even capital and commercial competition mechanisms.”
Each leader of the school has been taking the valuation seriously. In the midst of their tight schedules, Academician Huai Jinpeng and President Xu Huibin were able to hold a meeting with the panel members of CTI to understand the evaluation process and assessment criteria. With unremitted efforts from the school and the university, the school became the first French CTI accredited institute in China and one of Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions qualified to issue European uniformly certified engineer diplomas. What’s worth mentioning is that the school continued to take the lead in the accreditation field, and obtained the second 6-year full accreditation in 2016.
In order to establish a world-class university in China, the university has to develop a world-class school, and international accreditation is the path to the top-notch school and is the achievement and sign of the school internationalization. The school values the international accreditation as the indispensable part of the school development, and contributes its effort in realizing the university’s goal of“1-3-6-1”.