At 8:00-10:00 on June 21, 2020, the graduation ceremony of the 2020 undergraduate students of the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University was held online and offline. Mr. Wang Xiqin, Executive Vice President of Tsinghua University, Mr. Jin Depeng, Party Committee Secretary of the Department of Electronic Engineering and Leader of the Party Work Leading Group of the School of Information Science and Technology, Wei Shaojun, Chair of the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Wang Yu, Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Huang Yidong, Former Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Deng Beixing, Deputy Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Li Dongmei, Deputy Party Committee Secretary of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Wu Ji, Deputy Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shen Yuan, Deputy Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Liu Yimin, Member of the Party Committee of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Yang Yi, Deputy Party Committee Secretary of the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Zhou Shidong, Leader of Grade 6 of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Zhang Lei, Leader of the Student Group of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Li Yue, Leader of the Student Group of the Department of Electronic Engineering, the head teachers of the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Department of Electronic Engineering, some counselors of the Department of Electronic Engineering, and all the in-campus students in Grade 6 of the Department of Electronic Engineering attended the ceremony on the playground in the east and off-campus students participated remotely through the Tencent conference online. The graduation ceremony was hosted by Li Zishi in Grade 6 of the Department of Electronic Engineering.

Graduation ceremony scene

At 8:00 am, the host announced the beginning of the graduation ceremony. Firstly, the Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics made speeches respectively. Wang Yu, Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering mentioned the objective difficulties encountered by students in Grade 6 at the present stage, and encouraged the students to realize that the current situation is both a challenge and an opportunity. Mr. Wang left a 16-word message for graduates: Value foundation, think independently, select a direction, realize collaboration and win-win, encourage everyone to pay attention to the needs of the nation and society and apply their knowledge to make the electronic information technology play a bigger role in various fields. He also hoped that students would often return to their alma mater and keep in touch in the future.

Mr. Wang Yu, Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, delivers a speech

Wei Shaojun, Chair of the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, expressed his pride in cultivating outstanding talents as a teacher, and hoped that the students would live up to the expectations of their families, schools and society. In the meantime, Mr. Wei proposed three expectations to the students: Firstly, they should hold the bottom line for being a human in the future life; Secondly, they should understand the conditions of a country and the people, and strive to be a doer; Thirdly, they should have a strong body and strive to work healthily for the motherland for 50 years. He also reminded his students that opportunities are always for those who are well prepared and hoped that everyone would make good preparations.

Wei Shaojun, Chai of the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, made a speech

Then Zhou Shidong, Director of Grade 6, made a speech. While congratulating the students for "breaking away" from the heavy schoolwork, he also reminded everyone to develop the concept of lifelong learning. Taking the rapid development of domestic mobile communications as an example, Mr. Zhou illustrated the mutual promotion of demands and technology, and encouraged students to focus on social needs and think about their objectives of the struggle in the next 20 years. Mr. Zhou also encouraged everyone to bravely face the endless challenges and carry forward the spirit of self-improvement through the comparison between the time background of the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge by the fathers and the present.

Zhou Shidong, Director of Grade 6, made a speech

The former and current counselors of Grade 6 also left messages visually to express their blessings to their students. Although the counselors are scattered all around, the profound feelings they cultivated in getting along with students in Grade 6 can't be blocked by distance.

Wishes from the counselors of Grade 6

To carry out the liaison with alumni, the appointment ceremony for grade directors was held at the ceremony and the grade director candidates of each class were announced at the scene. Mr. Wang Yu issued an appointment letter to the grade director representatives.

Mr. Wang Yu issued an appointment letter to the grade director representatives.

Then an appointment ceremony for new counselors selected from Grade 6 was held, and Mr. Jin Depeng issued an appointment letter to the counselor representatives.

Mr. Jin Depeng issued an appointment letter to the counselor representatives

Zhu Li, alumni representative in Grade 2006, Founder of Deptrum gave messages in video form. By use of his experience of studying abroad and starting up business in school period and since then, he shared his three insights with the students: Firstly, treat setbacks correctly, and there are opportunities in setbacks; Secondly, choose the direction you love and cling to it for a long time; Thirdly, after graduation, you don't need to compare yourself with classmates horizontally, but you should find out your self-positioning through vertical comparison and gradually improve yourself.

Zhu Li, alumni representative in Grade 6 made a speech

Cheng Dali in Grade 62 made a speech as a student representative. In his speech, he detailed the stories in his studies and life from entering the campus, military training to the students' day' evening party, curriculum examination and thanked the teachers for their arduous efforts made in imparting professional knowledge to the students, scientific research methods and rigorous academic attitudes, the counselors for their company and teaching in the university, parents and relatives for nurturing and concerns and the classmates who were together morning and night for growing up together in learning and life. He hoped that Grade 6 would be worthy of the instructions given by the school and teachers in the future, and strive for the development of the Electronic Engineering and the progress of the country and society.

Student representative Cheng Dali made a speech

At the "To Myself after 20 Years" mailbox sealing ceremony, 8 monitors in Grade 6 put the envelopes of their classes into the letter box to save their dreams and the envelopes will be opened after 20 years.

"To Myself after 20 Years" mailbox sealing ceremony

Huang Yidong, Former Chair of the Department, expressed his blessing and encouragement to smooth graduation of students in his speech. Huang Yidong thanked all the students for learning and living and spending their undergraduate time in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, and expected the students to seize opportunities, meet challenges, and make contributions to solving the bottleneck problems in the national electronic information field and hoped that students can shoulder the mission and responsibility bestowed by the times, contribute to the country and society and create their brilliant lives.

Mr. Huang Yidong, Former Chair of the Department, made a speech

Finally, Mr. Wang Xiqin, Executive Vice President of Tsinghua University, give his address to the students. Mr. Wang reviewed the comprehensive work of online teaching, materials and personnel guarantee, and back-to-school work deployment during the epidemic prevention and control, encouraged everyone to have the courage to undertake responsibilities of the world with his personal experience, vividly explained the meaning of values through the relationship between individuals and collectives, hoped that values would become the core concept that students often think about after stepping into society, and wished them to keep the enthusiasm, generate light and heat on the future way of life, and make their own contributions to the development of the entire world.

Wang Xiqin, Executive Vice President of Tsinghua University made a speech

In the melodious musical sound, the graduation ceremony of the 2020 undergraduate students of the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University ended in a satisfactory way.

Group photo of class students

The online and offline cloud graduation ceremony is a good and memorable memory for the teachers and students at the ceremony and participating students online. Sun Shiyuan in Grade 64, saw the familiar figures of the teachers and classmates on the screen after many days. He wanted to brave the occasion or have a go at it. He wished students in Grade 6 a bright future and the Department of Electronic Engineering writing a brilliant. Yu Siyuan in Grade 64 sighed with emotion, his undergraduate learning life drew to an end in a flash, sincerely thanked the teachers of the Department of Electronic Engineering for their teachings, counselors and classmates for their help. He hoped that his studies and sports would be aggressive day by day and live up to the school's cultivation and great trust from the society.

Remote access for off-campus graduates

Wish students in Grade 6 of the Department of Electronic Engineering a happy graduation!