From August 30 to 31, 66 freshmen of the 2025 cohort from Shandong Vocational College of Science & Technology’s “Dawn Craftsman Class” registered on campus, marking the official launch of the university-enterprise cooperation project to deepen industry-education integration and nurture industrial talents. This collaboration aims to achieve a “triple win”: targeted talent training by the university, qualified personnel supply for the enterprise, and promising career prospects for students.

During the orientation, Dawn Group’s HR team participated and gave customized welcome packages to the students. “The packages include daily necessities and the newly published The Dao of Dawn,” said Zhan Fudong, Deputy Director of HR. “We want students to understand Dawn’s development philosophy through this ‘special textbook’ from day one.”

The “Dawn Craftsman Class” focuses on two core majors—chemical engineering and mold technology—corresponding to Dawn’s two leading industries: chemical new materials and precision manufacturing. The applied chemical technology program, tailored to Dawn’s chemical new materials industry, offers courses on basic chemistry, chemical unit operations, and chemical instrumentation & automation, covering production processes and quality inspection. The mold design and manufacturing program emphasizes precision mold design, CNC machining, and mold assembly/debugging, integrating real enterprise projects to achieve seamless connection between “classroom teaching, on-the-job training, and industrial application.”

Jiao Luzhen, the class advisor, said he would coordinate with the department and enterprise to manage students, build a good academic atmosphere, and link the school-enterprise joint training program—serving as both the students’ “caretaker” and a “liaison” between the two parties. Niu Weimei, a counselor, noted she would integrate Dawn’s craftsmanship spirit and quality awareness into daily ideological and political education to guide students in shaping correct career views and cultivating high-quality technical talents needed by the industry and enterprise.

“Industry-education integration is essential for high-quality vocational education in the new era,” said Chen Yiqun, Director of the university’s Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering. “We jointly developed talent training programs based on real production scenarios, introduced the enterprise’s advanced technical standards and craftsman culture, and formed a close cooperation model of ‘joint talent cultivation, process co-management, and achievement sharing.’” Yu Huiguo, Secretary of the Department’s Party General Branch, added that the collaboration not only builds a solid platform for industry-academia-research-application integration but also creates a new education pattern of “ideological guidance and simultaneous cultivation of ethics and skills.” The two sides will explore a new path for university-enterprise collaborative training of high-quality technical talents, with significant demonstration value and broad prospects.