On January 16, 2023, Phase #2: Energy & Power E Station: Academic Salon was successfully held at the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Cryogenic Institute").

Professor (Prof.) Lin Shi, the director of the National Quality Course of "Engineering Thermodynamics" at Tsinghua University and a well-known educator in China, was invited to speak at this salon under the theme "Teaching Experience Exchange Meeting." Moreover, Asst Prof. Ran Tian, the top honoree in the Basic Teaching Skills Competition for Young Teachers at Beijing Institute of Technology, was also the keynote speaker. Prof. Jun Shen (Director of the Cryogenic Institute), Prof. Mingjia Li (Deputy Director of the Institute), Assoc. Prof. Xu He (Deputy Director of the Engine Research Institute), and Assoc. Prof. Song Panpan (Deputy Director of the Department of Energy and Power), attended this event.

At the beginning of the activity, Prof. Shen warmly welcomed the arrival of the keynote speaker and the participating teachers, and then briefly introduced the overall situation of the Institute. She said she would continue to focus on the development needs of the college's young teachers and promote the " Energy & Power E Station: Academic Salon " to become an academic exchange and innovation platform by holding various academic exchange activities.

Prof. Shi shared her teaching philosophy based on her experience, with the title "Stimulating initiative, teaching and learning are mutually beneficial." She put forward some suggestions for young teachers: 1) treat the classroom as a stage, pay attention to appearance, and infect students with our positive mental state and love of the curriculum; 2) prepare the desk work, carefully design the classroom links; 3) pay attention to introducing new examples from scientific research and life into the classroom. In addition, based on her experience in the teaching reform of 《Engineering Thermodynamics》 at Tsinghua University, she shared many details about managing and preparing for the class.

Asst Prof. Tian made an experience sharing entitled "Growth in promoting teaching through competition - thinking and understanding of participating in teaching basic skills competition." She first shared her experience of participating in the teaching basic skills competition, then shared her experience and insights one by one from topics, content design, knowledge point explanation, and on-site demonstration, besides focusing on explaining the difficulties and detailed experience of the teaching basic skills competition in combination with excellent cases.

Prof. Shen awarded the appointment letters to the two keynote speakers

During the exchange and question session, the participating teachers had in-depth discussions about topics like "how to stimulate students' enthusiasm to participate in class" and "how to arrange and control class time reasonably." The atmosphere was lively and warm, which brought this activity to a successful end.