Recently, the eighth Jiangsu University Students' mechanical innovation design competition and the Ninth National College Students' mechanical innovation design competition sponsored by Jiangsu Provincial Department of education were successfully held online. The Jiangsu University team led by the industrial center performed well, and won two first prizes, two second prizes, four third prizes and one excellent organization award. Lu Jinzhong, Chen Hansong and Fang Yijun, were awarded as "excellent instructors".

The theme of this competition is "smart home, happy family". The content is to design and manufacture mechanical devices for helping the elderly to live alone or for modern smart home. A total of 187 entries were received in this competition. After preliminary evaluation, reevaluation and other screen methods, 25 first prize, 55 second prize and 80 third prize were finally determined. Among them, the top 15 first prize winners were recommended to participate in the national final competition.

Under the guidance of many teachers from industrial center, electromechanical plant, the team of Jiangsu University participated in the competition with 45 students from mechanical college, electrical college, automobile college and dynamic college, with a total of 9 works. Among them, “sound photoelectric integrated control intelligent desk" and "intelligent drug box for the elderly based on mobile phone interconnection" jointly guided by the Institute of mechanical engineering and the industrial center won the first prize. "The sound photoelectric integrated control intelligent desk" ranked the 10th in the province, and was recommended to participate in the national finals in November this year.