Gao Guanyi, a graduate student from Tianjin University’s School of Mechanical Engineering, won the First Prize in the Poster Design Competition to promote the "World Engineering Day”.
March 4, 2020 is the first "World Engineering Day” for sustainable development established by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. As the COVID-19 pandemic is raging around the world, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations issued a statement, calling on the global engineering community to take urgent action, and engineers and technicians from all over the world to unite and tackle the novel coronavirus challenge.
A promotion design competition was held to celebrate the setting-up of the World Engineering Day, the theme being "Engineering for Sustainable Development". The design works were supposed to boost the United Nations 2030 agenda for sustainable development, raise public awareness and understanding of the role engineering plays in modern life, emphasize how engineering affects economic development, and science and technology adoption, and encourage more people, especially young people and women, to consider engineering as a career choice.
Gao Guanyi’s work entitled An Idea Sustains Forever gained the first prize after three rounds of voting and judging. Focusing on the sustainable development of small island developing countries, the main body of Gao’s design is a thriving tree with a canopy made up of maps of 52 small island developing states. The trunk and roots contain elements such as circuit boards, gears, icon for new project and inspiration for engineering technologies.
“I was inspired by an advertising line, ‘A diamond lasts forever’ and named my work as ‘An IDea SuStains forever’ while SIDS is also short for Small Island Developing States. What I want to convey to people is that a brilliant engineering idea has the capacity of bringing small island nations a flourishing future,” Gao said, proud of herconception and design ideas. As an engineer student, she loves painting very much. “My childhood dream is to be an engineer who paints after work. It may sound a little incredible. Although I did not choose the art industry to receive professional art training, I am still learning hard on my own now”.
Two other students from Tianjin University were rewarded in the competition. Zhao Sulei from the College of Intelligence and Computing won the third prize and Liu Sijia from the School of Architecture won an excellent award.
By the School of Mechanical Engineering
Editor: Eva Yin
