The University of Macau (UM) Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) organized a training programme on “Artificial Intelligence and Smart City” for 37 students from Chengdu University. The program included two specialized lectures, ” AI for smart building, smart grid and smart city” and ” Artificial Intelligence and Smart City”, as well as a visit to UM’s State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City. The participants experienced the high-quality, all-English instruction delivered by UM professors and were left with a wonderful impression of the beautiful campus.
Founded in 1978, Chengdu University (CDU) is one of the comprehensive degree-awarding higher education institutions firstly sponsored by local cities after the Reform and Opening Up. It implements a Provincial and Municipal co-administration but city-based university system. It is a key university in Sichuan Province and Chengdu City. CDU has undergone several mergers. The history of its schooling can be traced back to the public Sichuan Superior Selective Teacher Training College in 1906 and the public Sichuan Provincial Women’s Teacher Training College in 1911. It is a university under the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” of the Ministry of Education (MOE), a special university for the MOE national defense education, a project unit for the construction of first-class undergraduate majors under the MOE “Shuangwan Plan”, and a construction unit under the “Priority Cultivation” category of the progressive cultivation plan for doctoral construction units in Sichuan Province.
CCE will continue to develop more training programmes for university students to promote exchange and cooperation between universities in Mainland China and the University of Macau.