2020 Product Design and Manufacture (PDM) Graduation Exhibition was successfully unveiled this morning in the atrium of PMB. There are more than 50 students’ design work showcased through poster and model. Final year students, staff representatives from PDM and also their industrial collaborators attended the opening ceremony. 

In the opening ceremony, Dr Xu Sun, Director of Teaching in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering said that despite of the crisis and the challenges that we all face, this year's graduation exhibition shows no difference. “We are all extremely proud of our students. The exhibition is a great opportunity to celebrate their works. PDM course has always been based upon promoting creative design that improves the quality of life. I encourage our students to keep their passion in design and develop their creative skills, the engineering rigour and grow to be a successful designer!”

Dr Bingjian Liu, PDM course director also mentioned that with unprecedented challenges from COVID-19, PDM final year students have been working very hard and completed their major project with high quality. We wish our graduates a bright future in their career and life and believe they will make contributions to our society by providing creative design solutions.

Industrial collaborator also values high to our PDM students design projects especially the creativity and aesthetical aspect. However, from the industry point of view, he also pointed out some shortcomings in their practicality and practicability. He hopes to see more great design coming up.

In the ceremony, two student representatives also shared their feelings about learning Product Design and Manufacture in the UNNC.

“First of all, I want to thank my tutors, classmates, friends and all the staff in the UNNC. Not only for the opportunity to share my experience on the open ceremony, but also for the design skills and design knowledge I've learned, and the time we spend together.

I think I am really lucky because I am the guy who really love product design. When I face difficulties or challenges, I won’t give up easily and always can face them more optimistically.

What we should do is keeping practising and refining our skills and holding our interest and passions to realise our design concept to a real product.”

--Huanrui He

“First I’d like to say, it has been a great pleasure to go through this fabulous journey with you guys, with the teachers who support and help us, with my best friends and with all of you, the future professional designers around the world. I’m so glad to meet and know you all here and it is an unforgettable memory slot for me. Those nights we stayed together in the studio, those projects we created, those design thoughts and talks we shared are the treasure in my life.

During these four years, I’m lucky to figure out what I love and what I have passion for my future career. So wish you guys all the same, have a bright future and achieve what you love and want. Happy graduation :)”

--Yifan Kang