Tsinghua University Announces Completion of the Tsinghua-Rohm Electronic Engineering Hall
From the Office of Overseas Promotion
Beijing, April 22, 2011 – Tsinghua University announces the completion of the Tsinghua-Rohm Electronic Engineering Hall, which was constructed with donations from Japanese semiconductor manufacturer ROHM CO., LTD on April 22, 2011. Professor Gu Binglin, president of Tsinghua University, Mr. Uichiro Niwa, the Japanese Ambassador to China and Mr. Satoshi Wawamura, president of ROHM attended the ceremony.
The event, held as part of Tsinghua University’s centenary celebration, commemorated the completion of Tsinghua-Rohm Electronic Engineering Hall. The University and ROHM agreed in September 2008 to build it and pledged to pursue an active research and development program from a long-term perspective. In addition to housing research facilities and classrooms in its role as the main building of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, the new structure provides a total of 33,000 square meters of floor space on three subterranean and 11 aboveground floors. It also provides a joint research space for use by the University and ROHM, an international exchange center, and an auditorium for holding academic presentations at meetings of academic societies and other events. The new building will serve as an international center for the dissemination of information about state-of-the-art technology and as a venue where off-campus companies, universities, research institutes, and other organizations can pursue broad partnerships.
Tsinghua University and ROHM have taken advantage of the Comprehensive Agreement on Cooperation between Industry and Academia signed in April 2006 to pursue a partnership involving exchanges of researchers and events in a range of fields.
The partners also held the TRIFIA 2011 Tsinghua-Rohm International Forum on Partnerships between Industry and Academia on April 23. The forum, which sparked a lively discussion on academic-industrial alliances between China and Japan, featured commemorative lectures by Li Tingye, professor emeritus at Tsinghua University (and previous AT&T Bell Laboratories researcher) who pioneered the high-capacity optical communication technology that underpins much of the Internet, and Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California who fostered innovations in displays, lighting, and optical disc capacity using nitride semiconductors, as well as presentations introducing state-of-the-art technology in China and Japan along with the partnerships between industry and academia that are driving its evolution.
