Some netizens questioned whether he wanted to "become an Internet celebrity." Jia Suizi said that he just hoped to attract students' interest through these novel forms and assist him in teaching. She has devoted herself to the civil engineering profession for 20 years, and scientific research is regarded as the "main" part of her life. As for online comments and doubts, she "doesn't care much."
▲Jia Suizi in the classroom
This young woman who has been living in the ivory tower for a long time has given her little free time to the countryside. For more than ten years, Jia Suizi has long been concerned about rural construction issues and tried to translate his scientific research results into the countryside. "Since I am doing research in this area, I must have such a sense of responsibility."
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Rap-style teaching
as Teacher, Jia Suizi’s class is different.
She never rolls names or signs in during class, and she doesn't like to assign homework. In the classroom, students can communicate with each other at any time and can freely ask questions to her. This young teacher, who has just ended her student status, does not want to restrict students through attendance and classroom discipline. “When students are relaxed, Only by opening up our minds."
▲ Jia Suizi in the classroom
Some reports focused on describing Jia Suizi's teaching innovation through her own creation of rap songs. According to her, rap songs are only part of her attempts. Rote memorization is not the purpose of teaching in itself, and rapping is just to use this form to deepen students’ impressions of key knowledge points. “Whether they are taking exams or applying them to practice in the future, they can think of these concepts and theories. This is My starting point."
For engineering majors, understanding of concepts and theories is only the most basic requirement, and correct application is the key. Jia Suizi requires students to bring pens and paper to class, and does a lot of blackboard writing in class, leading students to deeply understand the knowledge points mentioned in the lyrics; as for the assessment of teaching results, it is through leading students in class "Make questions" to proceed.
Jia Suizi calls this model an imitation of high school education methods. In her opinion, she just made some adjustments based on the characteristics of university subjects and focused on stimulating students’ initiative. “If students learn passively, then There will be resistance, so I ask the students to bring paper and pen to study with me without naming them, and we complete the project together. The relationship between teachers and students is equal, which is very important."
As for why he chose rap Jia Suizi admitted that it is more based on the students' hobbies. In fact, she usually prefers music based on folk songs and rarely takes the initiative to engage in rap music. In order to be able to compose songs that students would like, she studied for a long time with zero foundation.
’s rap skills have also been put into recruiting students. On March 7, Jia Suizi released a short video "Engineering Women", introducing the living conditions of female engineering workers including herself in the form of rap, hoping that students would understand her and apply for her master's degree. This video was liked by many students.
Along with the attention, there are also voices of doubt, thinking that she is "not doing her job properly" and wants to "become an Internet celebrity" through short videos. In this regard, Jia Suizi said that she just hopes to use these novel forms to attract students' interest and assist her in teaching. As for online comments and doubts, she "doesn't care much."
Now, in order to collect materials and cultivate a "musical sense", Jia Suizi's playlist also has a lot more rap songs, and the tempo is generally not that fast.She smiled and said that she "couldn't listen" to the extremely fast tempo, "I mainly listened to some simple raps."
Jia Suizi said that music is her main pastime. In addition to scientific research, I have to take care of my family and invest in rural construction issues that I am interested in. I really don’t have enough time to develop more “hobbies.”
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has always paid attention to rural construction. A large part of it comes from Jia Suizi's growth experience. She herself is a child who came out of the mountains and has a natural affinity for the countryside. But on the other hand, she also took the initiative to choose this responsibility.
During the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, senior Jia Suizi was faced with applying for a master's degree. She chose the research direction of disaster prevention and reduction, hoping to use her own power to make some changes. Going to Yangyao Village in Zhangjiakou in 2012 was the point where Jia Suizi officially started to put what he had learned into practice. At that time, she was invited to go to the local area to popularize the concept of green countryside to the villagers and propose dangerous reinforcements.
▲Jia Suizi visited Yangyao Village. The popularization of
has not been smooth. The local people have lived in masonry houses for generations and are full of resistance to these concepts. Jia Suizi recalled that she worked with the county government staff one by one. "For them, the old house is the 'heritage' passed down from generation to generation and cannot be touched." In the end, the villagers explained and persuaded her and the local government repeatedly. The government accepted the dangerous reinforcement proposal, and the safety hazards of old houses that had been eroded by time were removed.
In 2015, Jia Suizi returned to Zhangjiakou again and followed the mentor team to Xiaoliangou to apply the results of green village house technology. Compared with rural buildings in the past, these green village houses with light steel structures have significantly improved structural strength and heat insulation capabilities, and their earthquake resistance reaches nine degrees. In addition, due to the prefabricated assembly process, there are obvious advantages in the cost and manpower required for construction. The overall cost of a two-story building is only about 200,000 yuan, and it looks like beautiful "small villas".
Since then, Jia Suizi has been paying attention to rural construction issues. Almost every year, she visits rural areas across the country to inspect and participate in projects. The more places she travels, the more she feels the importance of improving the rural living environment. In many villages, due to the lack of knowledge in architecture and mechanics, villagers do not pay attention to structural safety when renovating houses. Some even build second or third floors directly on the original houses.
In addition to Xiaoliangou, Jia Suizi has also participated in rural building renovation projects in Yunnan, Fujian and other places. With the deepening of the national rural revitalization strategy, she found that more and more scientific researchers have joined the team that pays attention to rural architecture, " This is a trend and there is a huge market demand."
Every year, Jia Suizi has to participate in academic forums on related topics. She is usually under pressure from teaching work, and her own scientific research and various projects are almost full of her " "On rest days", "For example, during the Chinese New Year, we are all busy working on projects, otherwise school will start again soon, so we can't be distracted when teaching."
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Young Women in the Ivory Tower
I have been classmates with Jia Suizi and have been friends for many years. Ms. Li commented that she is "too simple" and "has always stayed in the ivory tower. She is usually engaged in academic work, doesn't go shopping, and doesn't seem to buy much clothes."
Comments on friends, Jia Suizi explained that she It’s not that I don’t like shopping, I just don’t have time. As for dressing up, from her point of view, "it's not that necessary." "Sometimes I stay up late for a week, and the machine can't stop when people sleep. When I wake up, I continue to see the results. Even if I wear a beautiful dress, it will look like ' Pickles' gone".
Jia Suizi's current research directions are mainly in the two fields of geotechnical engineering and prefabricated composite structures. Recently, he is also trying to involve the interdisciplinary application of AI, which are all standard engineering topics. She recalled that she became interested in civil engineering when she was very young. In my hometown village, I like to play in the mud with my friends and make imaginary houses and bridges. “I find it very interesting.”
▲Jia Suizi does wall experiments
After she really entered the civil engineering major, overcoming technical problems gave her a lot of sense of accomplishment. Taking the field of geotechnical engineering as an example, Jia Suizi’s research mainly focused on the goaf areas of ore bodies and dams. In terms of structure and engineering of tunnels, these research results will be transformed into grouting reinforcement of goafed ore bodies, as well as maintenance and repair of tunnels after damage and deformation, and become protective barriers for public safety.
A sense of accomplishment is also accompanied by Dedication and hard work. Whether it is a mined ore body or a damaged tunnel, it is necessary to go to the field for measurement and exploration. In the jargon of the civil engineering profession, it is "going out". Not only are the conditions difficult, but also often encountered In emergencies, danger is unavoidable. Jia Suizi said that she has become accustomed to it. "No matter how dangerous the job is, someone has to do it. For us scientific researchers, we pay more attention to solving the problem, and personal safety can only be put aside." in second place. "
As a young female scientific researcher in engineering, Jia Suizi has also experienced gender pressure. For example, during her Ph.D., she heard more than once that "it is difficult for women in engineering to find partners." In terms of scientific research competition, she He believes that women are also facing greater pressure, "such as marriage, childbirth, and family. Male scientific researchers have more energy to solve scientific research problems, and women need to balance the relationship between work and family." "
Fortunately, society and academia have paid attention to this issue. According to Jia Suizi, many funds in her subject field have appropriately relaxed the age limit for women in terms of application conditions. In addition, the school will also Female faculty and staff provide policy support.
At the end of the interview, Jia Suizi suggested that women who are good at mathematics and mechanics can consider joining engineering research. In her view, more women joining scientific research is in line with the needs of the times and academic development. , "Many people think that civil engineering is on the construction site. This is not accurate. We now pay more attention to intelligence, programming and making chips based on mathematics and software. Women can do this more carefully and improve our scientific research. . ”
Red Star News reporter Zhou Weihao
editor Zhang Li editor-in-chief Deng Haoguang
