On April 2, the Business Administration Department Party Branch at SEM led faculty members and Party members and faculty representatives to iFLYTEK's Beijing office for a combined Party-building and research visit, studying how AI is being applied in education and management.
The visit opened with a guided tour of iFLYTEK's AI exhibition hall, where faculty saw recent AI hardware and software products up close and tried them, noting the underlying technical principles and the real-world use cases.
A discussion session on Party building and industry–academia engagement featured the head of iFLYTEK's education division, who walked the group through the company's smart-education portfolio. He spotlighted products including the Spark Teacher Assistant, an AI learning companion, and an intelligent grading machine, and described how Party leadership helps the firm integrate AI with the education industry and meet social responsibilities.
Faculty then tied the discussion back to their own discipline. They asked how AI should shape business administration training, how university-enterprise collaborative models can be built, and how AI can drive management innovation. Company staff answered each question, and both sides explored potential approaches and future directions for merging AI with the department's curriculum and research.
Participants said the visit gave them a more direct sense of AI's industrial applications and new ideas for bringing AI into teaching and research. The Party branch will review the findings and explore further links among AI, academic development, student education and Party building, while strengthening cooperation with its industry counterparts.
