In the early 1950s, Zhang Wenqi served as the deputy mayor of Tangshan, and his work was very busy. He still insists on the teaching and scientific research work of the metallurgical department of Tangshan Institute of Technology. When he returns to school, he always deals with some departmental affairs first, and then goes home to prepare lessons until late at night. At that time, I was in charge of two courses: "Nonferrous Metallurgy" and "Choosing Non-science". Although he has taught these two courses for many years. However, he has to rewrite the lesson plans and handouts in every class. His lectures are rich and vivid, logical, and the classroom teaching effect is very good, which is very popular with students. During this period, he edited and published the book Non-ferrous Metallurgy, and expounded modern metallurgical technology in combination with China's mineral resources and metallurgical industry. It is a textbook that closely combines the national conditions of China. He always personally takes students to the factory for internship during holidays. Every time I go out for an internship, I can always see him wearing the blue uniform of railway workers, carrying a backpack and hand luggage, taking students to Tangshan Railway Station and walking from the station to the factory. Driven by his style of words and deeds, the teachers in the Metallurgical Department of Tangshan Institute of Technology are very serious and responsible for the teaching work, which is welcomed by the students and makes the feelings between teachers and students in the department very harmonious.
Since 1952, Zhang Wenqi has successively served as vice president and dean of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel, and worked hard in leadership positions. He is loyal to the party's educational cause, resolutely implements the party's line, principles and policies, strictly follows the laws of education, and strives to train students to develop morally, intellectually and physically in an all-round way and become a worker and builder with socialist consciousness and culture. He emphasized that students should learn basic theories well, integrate theory with practice, and learn the skills of analyzing and solving problems, so that students have strong adaptability and development potential. He devoted his life to the development of metallurgical education in China and the construction of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel, the "cradle of steel" in China.
Zhang Wenqi went deep into educational practice, conscientiously summed up educational experience, and gradually formed his own educational thoughts. He tried to explore the characteristics of higher education, especially metallurgical higher education, and studied how to cultivate senior talents in metallurgical field from the perspective of educational management and cognitive law. He pointed out that "the law of education" is generally consistent with the law of cognition, that is, practice, cognition, re-practice, re-cognition ..., but education has its particularity. In order to let students accept new knowledge on the basis of predecessors, we must deal with the relationship between direct understanding and indirect understanding, and between theory and practice. In teaching, we should not only attach importance to practical links such as experiment, study and design, but also emphasize the importance of theoretical teaching. The characteristic of school education is to let students concentrate on receiving a lot of knowledge in a short time, and it is impossible to repeat all practical links. He also believes: "Without theoretical knowledge, students often have no stamina in their future work, so they should get twice the result with half the effort."
Zhang Wenqi attached great importance to the basic education of universities, believing that only deep roots can flourish and solid roots can flourish. Under his leadership, Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel established the Basic Courses Teaching Committee in the early 1960s to organize professors and teachers of related majors to strengthen the teaching and research of basic courses. After the "Cultural Revolution", he first restored the original basic department, increased the class hours and paid attention to the inspection of teaching quality.
In order to bring order out of chaos, he resolutely carried out the spirit that the central government guaranteed teachers to spend five-sixths of their time in their posts, which played an important role in restoring the professional level of teachers in Beigang as soon as possible and continuously improving the teaching quality. He advocated strengthening ideological, political and moral education for students, establishing moral education teaching and research section and offering moral education courses, so that students can develop morally, intellectually and physically in an all-round way.
Zhang Wenqi also attaches great importance to the education of leading cadres in metallurgical enterprises. 1955 As the vice president of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel, he personally served as the monitor of the cadre class composed of leaders of metallurgical enterprises and taught them "Metallography". 1956, at the Eighth National Congress of the * * * Production Party in China, he and Jiang Nanxiang jointly submitted the Report on the Scientific Armed Forces of Factory Directors and Managers of Metallurgical Enterprises, which was published in the People's Daily at that time. This played a very positive role in the development of China's metallurgical industry at that time and laid a good foundation for the regular continuing education of metallurgical leading cadres. Zhang Wenqi is one of the pioneers and founders in the field of corrosion and protection science and technology in China. He devoted his life to exploring and developing the cause of corrosion and protection science and technology in China. From 65438 to 0945, Zhang Wenqi went to England for further study and conducted scientific research at Imperial College London, University of London and Royal Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He mainly studies the strengthening theory and stress corrosion mechanism of high-strength aluminum alloy, and is the first scientist in China to systematically study material corrosion and obtain a doctorate. During World War II, the aviation industry developed rapidly. As the main structural material of aircraft, the strength and stress corrosion resistance of aluminum alloy are the key issues related to the life and safety of aircraft. Zhang Wenqi made an important breakthrough in the study of strengthening theory and stress corrosion mechanism of high-strength aluminum alloy, and the research results were adopted by British Northern Aluminum Company. His research achievement, monograph Study on Strong Aluminum Alloy and Its Corrosion Resistance, was published in London and China respectively.
After returning to China with a doctorate in Britain, he devoted himself to the science and technology of corrosion and protection in China.
He set up the major of corrosion and protection in Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel, engaged in the education and scientific research of corrosion and protection science and technology, and actively trained graduate students in the field of corrosion and protection science and technology. He trained more than 30 graduate students in this field, and the first doctor in China who studied material corrosion was in his name. Under his guidance, the research on metal re-passivation, high temperature corrosion of alloy in mixed atmosphere, new protection technology, electrochemical corrosion testing technology, especially micro-area electrochemical testing technology has reached the international advanced level. Dozens of academic papers such as Passivation Process and Kinetics of Stainless Steel in Hot Chloride Solution and Rapid Measurement of AC Impedance have been published in relevant academic journals at home and abroad, and many invention patents have been obtained.
In order to develop the cause of corrosion science and technology in China, he suggested to the relevant leaders such as the State Science and Technology Commission and the Ministry of Metallurgy to set up a corrosion and protection center in China. Through unremitting efforts, he obtained the joint funding from the United Nations Development Programme and the China Municipal Government, and established the "Beijing Corrosion and Protection Technology Training and Consulting Center" in University of Science and Technology Beijing. The center received nearly one million dollars from the United Nations and one million yuan from the State Science and Technology Commission. The former Ministry of Metallurgy invested in the construction of the corrosion and protection center building of University of Science and Technology Beijing. Now, corrosion and protection has developed into the dominant discipline field of University of Science and Technology Beijing. The Center for Corrosion and Protection of University of Science and Technology Beijing has become one of the core units for training scientific and technological talents and engaging in scientific research in the field of corrosion and protection in China, and it is also one of the internationally renowned corrosion and protection centers.
Participated in the formulation of the National Twelve-year Development Plan for Corrosion Science. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, he participated in the leadership of the Corrosion Science Group of the State Science and Technology Commission. After the Cultural Revolution, he served as the executive deputy head of the Corrosion Science Group of the State Science and Technology Commission, and led and participated in the formulation of the Ten-year Development Plan of Corrosion Science from 65438 to 65438 to 0985.
With the joint efforts of him and many experts, the Chinese Society of Corrosion and Protection was established in Hangzhou on 1979, and was elected as the vice chairman of the first Council, and then successively elected as the second and third directors. Under his leadership, the work of Corrosion and Protection Society is flourishing, becoming one of the more active and well-run academic groups in China and enjoying a good reputation in the international corrosion science and technology community. He attaches great importance to international academic exchanges. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he visited the Soviet Union, the Democratic Republic of Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and other Eastern European countries many times. After the "Cultural Revolution", he led a delegation of the China Corrosion Society to visit the United States, Japan, Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany and other countries, and established contacts with organizations such as the American Society of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) and the Japanese Society for Corrosion Protection, which laid the foundation for international exchanges and cooperation in China's corrosion and protection science and technology circles.