On the morning of September 3, Steffen Haack, CEO of Bosch Rexroth AG based in Germany, visited Yanshan University (YSU) for exchanges. Mr. Haack was accompanied by Liu Huowei, President of Bosch Rexroth East Asia, Schoppel Georg, director of industrial hydraulic valve R&D, Chen Yongbo, director of industrial hydraulic R&D of Bosch Rexroth China, and He Chaohui, manager of education and training industry. Kong Xiangdong, former vice president of YSU, Yao Jing, Vice Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering, Ai Chao, head of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Control Engineering, and representatives of teachers and students of the department attended the event.
Dr. Haack delivers an academic report
Dr. Haack communicates with students
At the invitation of the School of Mechanical Engineering of YSU, Dr. Haack first gave an academic report entitled "New Ways for Sustainable Fluid Power Solutions" to teachers and students of YSU in the Machinery Hall J3. In the report, Dr. Haack introduced the solutions provided by Rexroth fluid transmission technology in sustainable development from five aspects, including carbon footprint, efficiency, fluid, design, and life. He also demonstrated the current technological and research achievements of Rexroth through technical comparison and actual product parameters. Dr. Haack interacted with the students and answered their questions in detail.
Kong Xiangdong presents Dr. Haack with hydraulic tie and badge
Group photo of representatives at the signing ceremony
After the report, Dr. Haack and his party and the faculty representatives of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Control Engineering held a cooperation agreement signing ceremony in Machinery Hall 301. Professor Ai Chao presided over the ceremony. Kong Xiangdong, chief professor of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Control Engineering, delivered a speech on behalf of the department. In his speech, Professor Kong gave a brief review of the cooperation between YSU and Bosch Rexroth and of the disciplinary advantages of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Control Engineering. He expressed a warm welcome and gratitude to Dr. Haack for his visit and cooperation. Dr. Haack highly affirmed the achievements made by YSU in the research and teaching of fluid transmission technology and expressed hopes to take this visit as an opportunity to further strengthen the cooperation between Rexroth and universities. At the ceremony, Mr. Chen Yongbo signed R&D agreements with Professor Yao Jing and Professor Gao Dianrong respectively. The parties exchanged presents and took a group photo.
A postgraduate student introduces the research results to Dr. Haack and his party
After the signing ceremony, Dr. Haack and his party inspected the fluid transmission and control laboratory. Postgraduate student representatives of the research teams introduced the achievements and innovative features of each platform, which gained high recognition from Dr. Haack.
As one of the world's leading transmission and control technology suppliers, Bosch Rexroth is committed to providing efficient, powerful, and safe intelligent motion solutions for all types of machinery and system equipment. The company has operations in more than 80 countries and regions around the world, with more than 32,000 professional employees. Its global sales reached nearly 7 billion euros in 2022. Bosch Rexroth has donated to YSU 5 sets of hydraulic integrated teaching experiment platforms, the Bosch Rexroth Endowed scholarship, and the 4EE scholarship. It has also reached a donation agreement with YSU that include ten-million-level scientific research and teaching equipment.
