Recently, Tianjin International Engineering Institute gained EUR-ACE accreditation.

The EUR-ACE system, an international engineer accreditation standard, has operated since 2007 and is supervised by the European Network for Accreditation Education. The EUR-ACE applies application procedures and authorization under the general framework of the Bologna process, aiming to achieve diversity in European engineering education and engineer professional organizations. The EUR-ACE has gained wide recognition across Europe or even around the world.

The Tianjin International Engineering Institute (TIEI) was established on the basis of national strategic demand and Tianjin University’s cultural confidence. It is an independently built pilot engineering education institute inspired by CTI and EUR-ACE. The accreditation of CTI and EUR-ACE means that graduates of Electronics, Computer Science and Smart Building majors can acquire a French engineering diploma authorized in Europe without going abroad. The recognition means the international assurance of the education standards of TIEI and provides potent evidence of the cultivation of leading international engineers.

TIEI have created five modular training programs, including ideological and political education, language communication, business management, mathematical foundations and professional science. The five modular training programs, together with a personalized training plan are in line with the idea of student-oriented cultivation. Like the French engineers' standard to cultivate engineering talents, TIEI promotes a comprehensive reform of course teaching with practice and experimental classes accounting for about 2/3 of the total class time. A total of 10 months of three-phase progressive enterprise internships achieves "seamless convergence" with business needs. Forty-two well-known domestic and foreign enterprises including NXP, Siemens, Schneider, Huawei, China Railway and the China Architectural Design Institute have joined the school business clubs, setting up 19 school-enterprise cooperation bases. TIEI, with the support of business clubs, has further implemented a school-enterprise training mechanism. The enterprises are actively involved in business management and design, training programs, teaching reform, quality control, innovation and incubation of education and teaching. The process of enterprise participation ensures that the personnel training matches employment needs. After three years of training the first batch of students graduated in June 2017, wining highly praise from employers.

Editors: Sun Xiaofang and Ross Colquhoun