On the morning of 27 March 2025, Zhang Kai, an alumnus of the Class of 2018, came into the classroom of the undergraduate professional course "Engineering Ethics" and taught the students from the perspective of a corporate engineer with the theme of "Harmonious development of engineering and the environment" in the context of the part of the course content "Environmental ethics in engineering activities". He taught the students from the perspective of an engineer.
Director Zhang Kai is an alumnus of the 2018 master's degree programme of the School of Materials of Shenzhen University. During his studies, he conducted research on organic photocatalytic nanomaterials for organic degradation, and published two papers as the first author in journals such as Appl Catal B (IF 14). After graduation, he has been engaged in ecological and environmental consulting, evaluation and planning research in environmental consulting companies. Currently, he is the technical director of Shenzhen Yuhang Environmental Science and Technology Co., Ltd, a national high-tech enterprise and a speciality enterprise in Shenzhen, and he is in charge of the ecological and environmental impact evaluation of the regional space in Luohu and Futian districts, and he has successfully provided environmental protection solutions for a number of listed companies. This lecture Zhang Kai alumni introduced the background of the coordinated development of engineering and environment, the contradiction and symbiosis between engineering and environment, and the core principle of coordinated development. He also clarified the impact of engineering on the environment with specific cases such as the Three Gorges Project and the sponge city in Guangming District, and how to take reasonable and effective measures to improve the environmental benefits of engineering projects. Finally, the students are called upon to contribute to the promotion of the coordinated development of engineering and the environment in their future work fields and the construction of a beautiful China.
The Engineering Ethics course aims to cultivate engineering students' high sensitivity to engineering ethics and sense of professional responsibility, as well as the ability to comprehensively apply ethical theories, knowledge and methods to inductively analyse complex ethical issues in reality, and to improve ethical decision-making ability in practice. The lack of practical experience in engineering ethics in the previous lectures of this course is not conducive to the cultivation of students' ethical decision-making ability.Targeted invitation of front-line industry experts into the classroom to bring practical work experience introduction is one of the important initiatives of our institute to promote the integration of industry and education, make up for the lack of practical experience and cultivate students' practical ability.
