Shanghai's elite Tongji University has founded a Sino-German school to train bilingual professionals in engineering management.

As an intergovernmental cooperation program, the school was founded between Tongji University and the University of Applied Sciences in Germany to train high-caliber engineering management professionals for Chinese and German enterprises.

The school, inaugurated on July 30, focuses on interdisciplinary studies in engineering, business administration and information technology.

Its three departments -- mechanical and electronic engineering,automobile services and civil engineering technologies -- will open to senior high school graduates starting from September.

Each student will study 1,200 hours of German under the four-year undergraduate program and most courses will be taught in German by specialists sent by the joint program as well as senior engineers from German-invested companies in China.

Besides a degree from the Chinese institution, the students will get a bachelor's degree from the German university, if they pass the DSH German proficiency test and spend at least one year in Germany studying and doing internships.

Dr. Wolf-Dieter Dudenhausen, state secretary of Education and Research of the Federal Government of Germany, was present at the school's inauguration ceremony on July 30 with Tongji's president Wang Gang.

Founded in 1907, Tongji is a multidisciplinary university featuring engineering, sciences, management, arts and law.

Source: Xinhua