"Professor Huang guides me patiently when I encounter problems," says Chen Zhuo, a doctoral student at Zhejiang University, who has been doing research with Huang since his junior year. "At the same time, we can also inspire each other, and we often conduct experiments together until late in the evening."

Hu Qichao, one of Huang's postgraduate students agreed. "We like to talk things through with professor Huang. She always urges us to be brave and embrace trial and error, encouraging us to learn from failure, and helps us to overcome difficulties."

Huang is just one of the scientific researchers in the College of Electrical Engineering of Zhejiang University who are at the forefront of scientific innovation crucial to the country's development.

"The members of the R&D team on the world's first large-scale dualwater internal cooling generator, and the R&D team of the electric power device for the manned space environmental control and life support system technology, are professors from the College of Electrical Engineering of Zhejiang University," says Huang.

"They are pioneers and they're unyielding. They have achieved major scientific and technological breakthroughs under difficult conditions, and they are role models of our time," Huang says.

"I hope that I can undertake my mission of cultivating top talent, and make further contributions to serving the nation, as well as the world," Huang says.

"I believe that only by sharing my dreams with the country can I truly realize my value."

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