Chemcup Special Issue § 2012 Nationwide University Chemistry Department Cup
The 2012 Nationwide University Chemistry Cup (Chemcup for short) will be held this Saturday and Sunday at NCTU. The chemistry departments of 34 colleges and universities across Taiwan will participate in the grand event. For more information, please visit the official website of Chemcup: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/chemcup2012
Many colleagues in Everwide Chemical have graduated from chemistry-related departments. We specially set up a Chemcup fan group to cheer for the younger brothers and sisters! http://www.everwide.com.tw/manuals/chemcup2012.pdf
While admiring the youth and invincibility of the younger siblings, the editorial team specially set the theme of this issue of the bi-weekly as the "Chemcup Special", sharing some of our experience with the youth, and blessing the success of the "Chemcup" by the way.
Chemcup Special Issue § About Everwide Chemical
Everwide Chemical belongs to the "secondary processing industry," the so-called "formulation factory." To put it simply, we purchase raw materials from upstream suppliers, and after processing steps such as mixing, grinding, packaging, etc., we sell them to downstream factories for use. The types of our products are extensive, such as adhesives, coatings, inks, composite materials, electronic packaging, heavy electrical products, etc., you can see us. From another point of view, we are a material supplier for many factories, such as bicycles, LED lights, mobile phone buttons, fiber optic connectors, and even factories that manufacture handicrafts, all need to use our products.
Customers often visit us, hoping to develop products with lower cost, better performance, or meet special needs. Many visitors to Everwide Chemical will unanimously say, "This company is like a school!" From many perspectives, it is the case. We have a campus-like green space, 11 laboratories the same as the school, and an instrument room, a medicine room, and a library.
In addition, to the similarities in hardware, we, like schools, have invested a lot of resources in education and training. There is a training system for recruits. They need to read books, attend classes, writing experience, and take exams during the training period. The R&D staff regularly attend classes every Wednesday night, and this year, an after-school assessment has been added. The relevant colleagues in the manufacturing department are trained every Thursday from 8 to 9 in the morning. Coupled with a wide range of external training, we estimate that 6% of this year's working hours are spent on education and training.
Everwide Chemical is very similar to the school's characteristics, which is related to our staff composition. A considerable proportion of our colleagues came to this company for their first job, including the partners in the company's early days. We have mastered several key factors learned in school and let Everwide Chemical enter the growth direction: 1. Experimental spirit: In the process of Everwide Chemical from scratch, whether it is R&D, business, management, manufacturing, every part of it is in constant attempts to find a suitable path. 2. Continuous improvement: We are often uneasy about the current situation, and gradually improve the production environment of the factory, raise the technical level of research, and breakthrough the performance of existing products. 3. Undertaking the mission: The concept of Everwide Chemical was put forward at the end of 1997. We don't have the foresight to go public, and we don't need to talk about shareholders' equity. The only mission we undertake is: Can we make a unique factory? For the sense of mission at this young age, we are working hard day and night.
Over the past few years, we have put in a lot of effort to build a unique factory. Of course, there are still many places where the ideal is not fulfilled, and we will continue to work hard.
Many people think our ideas are bold and risky. However, we like to experiment. Isn't it?
Chemcup Special Issue § Advice for graduates
Once I was invited to give a lecture at a university in the north; the target audience was prospective graduates who took a particular course. Before the speech began, these audiences were robbing the last few rows of the lecture hall. Some people bowed their heads to eat fried noodles, some were stumbling over their homework, and some were entangled with their girlfriends. Seeing this kind of sight, I secretly cried out in my heart. Finally, after an hour and a half of speaking, no one asked questions during the open questioning stage. At this time, the teacher who invited me to give a lecture jumped out of the question "Hello," hoping that I would provide the graduates with present a suggestion to enter the society. After enduring the bird's air for an hour and a half, I decided to electrify them.
"Dear students, think that the starting salary of NTU graduates is higher than that of you; please raise your hand." Most of the students raised their hands. "Dear students, when did you know that the starting salary of NTU graduates is higher than that of you? Did they know it when they were freshmen or did know it when they were about to graduate from the senior year?" Most students said that they thought it was when they were freshmen. The social and economic conditions of NTU students will be better than them. "I would like to ask everyone, in response to the knowledge that social and economic conditions will not be as good as NTU students four years ago, what kind of efforts have been made in the past four years to prevent this from happening?" The audience was silent. "Please evaluate yourself. After these four years, has the gap between you and the NTU students in various indicators such as knowledge and ability narrowed or widened?" The audience was still silent.
Many bad results can be predicted at the beginning of the matter. There is often plenty of time to avoid bad results. Bad results occur mainly because the process is laissez-faire. The above three points are my advice to the graduates in that speech. Although it was an impromptu performance, I was proud of my on-the-spot reaction. Even the teacher who invited me to speak was full of praise, boasting that I dared to tell what others could not say, and hoped the students would receive the effect.
─Author: Dr. Ming-xu, Li, Everwide Chemical
Chemcup Special Issue § Are you a master student yet?
I was stunned by the recent recruitment of R&D talents. The current master's degree may be similar to the previous junior high school graduation. My interview question: "20g of sugar plus 80g of water becomes 100g of sugar water with a concentration of 20%. How much more water must be added to this 100g of sugar water to become 5% sugar water?" This question can be electrocuted for more than half of the year's candidates for the master's degree. The two masters of chemical engineering I interviewed this year gave wrong answers, which shows how fragile the foundation they have.
High schools had to take the joint exams at my age, and universities also had to take the common exams. If you don't pass the high school entrance exam, you will go to the higher vocational exams and prepare for employment. The college acceptance rate is less than 50%, and you will feel embarrassed if you pass the exam. Ever since I was young, I was worried that I could not keep up and get a good school. I have lived in my thirties, and I have dreamed of taking an exam several times, but the fear of not being prepared shows how much crisis I felt when I was studying in the past.
Nowadays, exemption from entrance examinations and happy learning have come out, opening the door to universities. The university is afraid that it will close down if no one is recruited and accept all kinds of students. Many people graduate from the master's class, and even university spells it wrong, and it is written as universtion; major is spelled as majeor. It is the current master's level! Our education system has allowed many people who shouldn't go to university or graduate school to obtain academic qualifications, but their abilities will never have a corresponding output value. I don't know who should be responsible for this phenomenon?
For a while, not for a lifetime. If the future generation is only left with the kuso online auction bubble value and Chao x Daren, will Taiwan accept such a change? If your values are still in the age of the entrance exam, you must pay close attention to your children because school education has begun to be irregular now.
─Author: R&D Engineer Mr. Hui-xu, Li, Everwide Chemical
Chemcup Special Issue § Ph.D. classification
A student told me that there are five types of doctors: "big doctors," "medium doctors," "small doctors," "doctors who are not as good as masters," and "doctors who are not as good as bachelors." At that time, the younger brother said that to ridicule some of the brothers who didn't work hard, but now I think of this classification method, but I feel a lot of feelings.
The newly graduated Ph.D. student has been a "little doctor" since he started. "big doctors" may refer to an authoritative person with far-reaching influence. Those in between are naturally within the scope of "middle doctors." Judging from this classification method, the lives of many "small doctors" are a history of struggling to move towards "middle doctors."
As far as general social perception is concerned, a doctoral degree in a profession must know a lot more than a master's degree. This view has created immense pressure on doctors. For example, two 30-year-old young people may have just graduated with a doctorate and are looking for their first job; those with a master's degree may have four or five years of work experience. If these two people happen to work in the same company, a master's degree is likely better than a doctor's job.
The embarrassing thing is that the "little doctor." puts on the title on the first day of work at the company and may even get a high salary. If the boss finds that "a doctor is inferior to a master's degree," then it's worth it? Active "small doctors" should reduce this practical gap in the shortest possible time, give full play to the strengths that others do not have, and build up the style of "middle doctors" step by step. If the "little doctor" did not hurry up and study hard, it would not be long before his colleagues around him would be listed as a "doctor who is not as good as a master's."
In retrospect, the "doctoral classification" invented by my younger brother can also provide a good point of view when used in other places, such as: "inferior to the junior's senior," "inferior to the regular employee of a temporary employee", etc. This classification tells us the illusion of relying on the old and selling the old and the necessity of lifelong learning.
─Author: Dr. Mingxu, Li, Everwide Chemical
