Congratulations to Texas Instruments for receiving two more awards from the Ministry of Education

- Awarded the title of "Excellent Partner of 2019" by the Ministry of Education and the title of "Excellent Partner" in the 2019 Industry-University Collaborative Education Project of the Ministry of Education

Recently, Texas Instruments (TI), a world-leading analog and embedded processing semiconductor manufacturer, was invited to attend the 2020 Spring Festival Reception held by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and was awarded the title of "Excellent Partner of 2019" by the Ministry of Education. In the subsequent Ministry of Education Industry-University Cooperation and Collaborative Education Project Recognition Exchange Meeting, the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Department (hereinafter referred to as the Higher Education Department) once again awarded TI the "Excellent Partner" award in recognition of its outstanding contribution to the Ministry of Education's Industry-University Cooperation and Collaborative Education Project in 2019. Since the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Department began to organize enterprises to support colleges and universities in carrying out industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects in 2014, TI has been recognized and recognized by the Ministry of Education for many consecutive years with its industry-leading innovative technology and solid cooperation foundation.

Texas Instruments wins the title of "Excellent Partner of 2019" from the Ministry of Education and "Excellent Partner" in the 2019 Ministry of Education Industry-University Collaborative Education Project

The Ministry of Education's Industry-University Cooperation and Collaborative Education Project aims to encourage enterprises to independently establish projects and provide special funds to subsidize colleges and universities to carry out comprehensive professional reforms, curriculum reforms, teacher training, and college student innovation and entrepreneurship training programs, jointly promote the reform of talent training models, and strive to cultivate application-oriented, compound, and innovative talents that meet the needs of industrial development. As a long-term partner of the Ministry of Education, TI has always actively responded to the call of the Ministry of Education and made unremitting efforts in supporting school-enterprise cooperation and promoting the development of engineering education in Chinese universities, including improving the teaching content of analog electronic technology, embedded technology and other related majors, optimizing the curriculum system, improving the teaching quality of electronic information and computer majors, and cultivating innovative talents based on TI's latest technologies and solutions, through supporting professional course construction, teaching method reform, experimental platform innovation, teaching material and lesson plan development, MOOC course development, teacher technical training, college student innovation and entrepreneurship practice, and college student electronic design competitions.

2019 marks the 23rd year that TI's university program has been rooted in China's education, and it is also the third year that TI and the Ministry of Education have signed a new ten-year strategic cooperation. In the context of the country's encouragement of innovation and entrepreneurship in colleges and universities, TI continues to fully support the Ministry of Education's industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects, and deeply participates in and cooperates with various teaching reforms in schools. In 2019, TI supported more than 70 industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects led by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education. The project categories covered teaching reform, innovation and entrepreneurship, student competitions, and new engineering construction, with a total support fund of more than one million US dollars. At the same time, TI also donated more than 30,000 sets of hardware development tools and more than 40,000 samples to Chinese universities, and built, updated and expanded various simulation, MCU and DSP joint laboratories. In addition to actively carrying out the Ministry of Education's industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects, the TI University Program also successfully held the TI Cup 2019 National College Student Electronic Design Competition in cooperation with the National College Student Electronic Design Competition Organizing Committee. This competition attracted 1,109 colleges and universities from 29 provinces and cities across the country to register, with a total of 17,313 participating teams and nearly 52,000 registered students. During the competition, TI held more than 20 offline technical training sessions in various provinces and cities, providing nearly 20,000 TI processor boards to participating students for free. In addition, TI and the organizing committee jointly built the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition Training Network, aiming to provide students with a rich training resource and online learning platform for courses.

As one of the award-winning companies, Dr. Wang Chengning, Director of University Programs in Asia Pacific at Texas Instruments, shared TI's rich experience in industry-university cooperation at the commendation exchange meeting. He said: "The purpose of the TI University Program is to support the reform of electronic information teaching and the cultivation of innovative talents in Chinese colleges and universities, and to promote the integration of industry, academia and research. This is also perfectly in line with the original intention of the Ministry of Education's Industry-University Cooperation and Collaborative Education Project. All along, the TI University Program has closely followed the direction of talent cultivation in Chinese universities, and has jointly promoted the reform of talent cultivation models through active cooperation with the Ministry of Education. In the future, we will continue to use the Ministry of Education's Industry-University Cooperation and Collaborative Education Project as a support and the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition as a bridge to give full play to TI's advantages in advanced technology and industrial applications to support China's engineering education reform. At the same time, as the 2020 Ministry of Education's Industry-University Cooperation and Collaborative Education Project Management Measures and Guidance are about to be released, I look forward to exploring new fields, new technologies, new concepts and new models for undergraduate engineering education in the new stage with more new and old friends!"

Since entering the Chinese market, TI has been developing continuously while always paying attention to fulfilling its corporate social responsibility, and education has always been the focus of TI's support. As a leading global semiconductor company, TI has always made every effort to promote the university plan in China on the premise of giving full play to TI's technological advantages, helping the industry to cultivate more professionals who master the world's advanced technologies through this cradle of innovation. So far, TI has established more than 3,000 digital signal processing, analog and microcontroller laboratories in more than 700 universities in China, and more than 300,000 students practice and learn through TI's laboratories and various activities every year.