Education and research activities of electrical engineering in China's university and industry

In recent years, the increasing demand of electricity and the new technology applied in the electrical engineering (EE) bring many challenges to the research and education of China's industry and university. In order to adapt to such changes, the industry, university and government put much efforts on the industry-academic and education cooperation. This paper describes the background, status and problem of the research and education activities of EE in China's universities and companies. Industry-academic collaboration examples are also presented to demonstrate the typical cooperation models. Suggestions are finally proposed in the conclusion.