From November 1 to 2, 2025 (Eastern Time), the Chem-E-Car Global Finals, organized by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), were held in Boston, USA. The competition brought together teams from 53 leading universities worldwide, including Stanford University, Cornell University, the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, as well as Sichuan University, Tianjin University, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from China. In this highly competitive event, our university’s Chem-E-Car team demonstrated solid engineering practice skills and stable on-site performance, achieving precise control with a deviation of only 0.59 meters from the target distance, and ultimately securing 9th place in the global finals.

Under the dedicated guidance of faculty advisors and through close collaboration among team members, the team showcased a strong professional foundation and outstanding engineering competence. This achievement follows the team’s success in August this year, when our students won the Performance Competition Special Prize and the Golden Tire Award at the 9th China Undergraduate Chem-E-Car Competition, once again highlighting their excellence in scientific innovation and engineering practice on the international stage. During the competition, faculty and students actively participated in international academic exchange activities, broadening their research horizons and laying a solid foundation for future international cooperation and talent cultivation.

The Chem-E-Car competition is an international innovation-oriented event that integrates knowledge from chemical engineering, mechanics, and control engineering, aiming to enhance students’ engineering practice capabilities and teamwork skills. Upholding the fundamental mission of fostering virtue through education, our university is committed to cultivating high-quality chemical engineering talents capable of shouldering major industry responsibilities, and places great emphasis on the coordinated development of students’ professional competence and practical innovation abilities. The breakthrough achieved at this top-tier international competition fully demonstrates the students’ strong research foundation and exceptional innovative capacity, vividly reflecting the spirit of engineering students in the new era.

This participation was strongly supported by the Office of Academic Affairs, the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation, and the School of Information Science and Technology. The honor not only underscores our university’s strengths in chemical engineering research and talent cultivation, but also serves as a vivid testament to the university’s continuous efforts in advancing New Engineering education and deepening the cultivation of Outstanding Engineer training programs. Looking ahead, the university will further deepen reforms in innovation and entrepreneurship education, guide students to focus on national strategic needs in scientific research, and continue to strengthen teamwork, technological innovation, and engineering practice capabilities, contributing BUCT’s strength to the cultivation of morally and intellectually accomplished talents and to the construction of a strong nation in science and technology.