Editor's note: At Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES), first-class undergraduate education is regarded as the foundation of the university. The majority of teachers take the initiative to undertake the educational mission, stick to the initial educational intention, and with their unremitting efforts, cultivate a large number of outstanding students with both ability and integrity. The teachers who won the honorary title of excellent lecturers this time are outstanding representatives among them, and they have made a useful attempt to broaden the international perspective of teaching in English. The exemplary role of the excellent lecturers will be a powerful driving force for the high-quality development of SUES.

Cultivating Cultural Awareness

In the course College English Speaking, Ms. Nie Hui of School of Foreign Languages uses the interactive, timely and inspirational functions of language teaching to explore the core values, humanistic spirit, engineering ethics, and other moral connotations contained in the topics, and to cultivate composite New Engineering talents with core qualities such as national sentiment, global vision, cross-cultural communication, and critical thinking. Adhering to this teaching philosophy, the teachers aim to improve the English communication skills of science and technology majors, cultivate students' international vision and cross-cultural communication skills, and lay the foundation for students' future international course study, academic exchange, and cross-cultural communication and cooperation in a multicultural work environment.

The course College English Listening, taught by Gao Yanning of School of Foreign Languages, adopts a blended intelligent teaching mode, focusing on the two characteristics of college English: instrumental and humanistic, developing students' global competence in four dimensions: language, cultural awareness, thinking, and learning ability, and cultivating students into composite new engineering talents who are rooted in China, integrated with China and foreign countries, based on the times, facing the future, with both patriotism and international vision.