The MUST Team Won the Special Prize in the Enterprise Operations Competition at the 2025 China Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition
Group photo of the MUST team (from left: Dong Zihan, Chen Yingning, Cheng Jiayi)
On August 10, 2025, the 15th China Undergraduate Engineering Practice And Innovation Ability Competition concluded successfully at Dalian University of Technology. In the Enterprise Operations Simulation track, the MUST team which is supervised by Associate Professor U Kin Tak from the Faculty of Innovation Engineering, and composed of Cheng Jiayi, Chen Yingning, and Dong Zihan, with their outstanding digital operation strategies and interdisciplinary collaboration skills, won the Special Prize by achieving third place in the finals after a month-long verification of results.
The MUST team won the special prize in the Enterprise Operations Competition
The China Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition is a biennial nationwide competition organized by the Ministry of Education’s Engineering Training Teaching Steering Committee. The competition emphasizes the integration of theory and practice, interdisciplinary and professional crossover, university-industry collaborative innovation, and the integration of science, engineering, and humanities. This year’s competition theme was “Fostering New Quality through Interdisciplinary Engineering Innovation Education, Upholding Virtue and Taking Responsibility in National Development.” Guided by the development of new engineering and new liberal arts, it highlights multidisciplinary collaboration and innovation, emphasizes digital operations and sustainable development, and aimed to cultivate students’ abilities in enterprise digital operation management, teamwork and communication, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship.
The competition follows a three-tier selection system at the university, provincial, and national levels. The finals are held in Dalian, featuring competitions across three tracks and seven sub‑events, bringing a total of 126,000 students from 771 universities across 34 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps participated. Nearly 5,000 outstanding students competed on the same stage, showcasing their youthful spirit with patriotism, innovation, and determination.
