ryethenovel Chapter 30 Everyone's Fighting
Chapter 30 Everyone's Fighting
Chen Weiguo smiled and said, "I've finished reviewing the materials, so I've written down some ideas. Please take a look and see if they're okay."
Professor Zheng worked overtime that night, reading through the forty-page technical memo from beginning to end, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.
The next morning, he gathered everyone in the office for a brief morning meeting and put the memo on the table: "Pass this around and take a look."
The memo circulated among the research group.
The researchers who had been discussing it the most earlier all fell silent after reading it.
It's not that I don't want to say anything, it's just that there's really nothing to say.
They've laid out the derivation of the principles right there, with the formulas written line by line on paper. You can pick any formula to verify it, and you're guaranteed to find no flaws from beginning to end.
Nobody in a research institute is stupid; they can tell at a glance whether something is good or bad.
Everyone was surprised; this was something Chen Weiguo had made.
How can a student in a vocational high school have such a high level of skill?
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In the afternoon, an assistant researcher named Xu Zhenbang came to Chen Weiguo's workstation to find him.
Xu Zhenbang graduated from Tsinghua University and, while not the most senior in the institute, had been working there for almost ten years.
This man is known for being a quiet, reserved person who doesn't talk much. However, he has one notable trait: he takes technical matters very seriously.
Anyone who can win his respect must have real talent.
He held the memo in his hand, circled several places in red pen, and immediately asked Chen Weiguo about the derivation logic of the boundary conditions in the thermal deformation compensation model.
Chen Weiguo didn't beat around the bush with him, and started from the basic assumptions of the heat conduction equation, working down line by line.
Halfway through his speech, Xu Zhenbang suddenly raised his hand to stop him, turned around and went out to call two people in to listen together.
One of them was a mechanical analyst, and the other was a structural designer.
The three of them stood in front of Chen Weiguo's workstation, as if listening to a lecture, occasionally interrupting to ask a few questions, asking more and more detailed questions.
Chen Weiguo was not intimidated at all.
He didn't even need to look up the system to answer these people's questions. He had already thoroughly understood every aspect when he wrote those forty pages. He could answer any question directly, covering everything from principles and formulas to practical applications.
Not two days later, Professor Zheng recommended the technical memorandum at the institute's joint meeting of department heads.
This joint meeting is the highest-level technical discussion meeting in the institute, with the heads of several research labs all present. The discussion topics range from specific experimental data to major technical issues.
Professor Zheng gave a brief overview of the contents of the memorandum at the meeting, and several department heads became restless after listening to it.
The first research lab focuses on materials modification, which at first glance seems unrelated to Chen Weiguo's work. However, the lab director immediately suggested that Chen Weiguo come over for a technical exchange.
Because they were working on a new type of spindle material recently, they found that the thermal deformation data did not match their expectations after heat treatment. They found Chen Weiguo's memo on the modeling of thermal boundary conditions to be enlightening.
The third research lab is doing preliminary research on CNC systems, which is inherently related to precision machine tool control.
Their department head was even more direct, immediately expressing his intention to second Chen: "If Xiao Chen could come over now and help us take a look at a few dynamic accuracy issues in the servo control loop, our urgent project with the ministry could be moved forward by a big step."
Another group from the Fourth Research Division, which designs the overall structure of machine tools, also came. They said they had just come up with a new machine tool bed structure scheme and wanted Chen Weiguo to help with a round of modal verification from the perspective of vibration analysis.
Professor Zheng sat there listening to these people arguing back and forth over who would get the person. If Chen Weiguo had seen the expression on his face, he would have found it hilarious.
Professor Zheng didn't budge an inch from beginning to end, deflecting all questions one by one.
"Xiao Chen is still a formal student in the Yanjing Industrial Vocational School training program. He hasn't even secured a permanent position in the institute yet. You guys shouldn't make any moves on him. Wait until he graduates from the training program."
They spoke politely, but their meaning was obvious.
He's mine, and nobody can take him away.
When this news spread within the research institute, it caused a huge stir.
As a newly arrived level-six fitter, he knew no one in the research institute full of prestigious universities, and no one even spoke to him when he was getting food in the cafeteria.
Now, wherever he goes, people point and whisper behind his back: "That's the new guy in the second office. He fixed the thermal deformation problem of the Swiss grinding machine in just three days."
Even people outside the institute knew about it.
There was an old professor surnamed Lin in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University who had a good personal relationship with Professor Zheng. After hearing about these things, he called directly and said that his research direction in servo control was in need of someone who understood thermal deformation and vibration analysis. He asked Professor Zheng if he could arrange for Chen Weiguo to come to the department to give a special report, and the topic would be the content of that memorandum.
When Professor Zheng finished making the invitation, Chen Weiguo was holding a glass of water and almost spilled it.
A student from a vocational high school continuing education program went to Tsinghua University's Department of Mechanical Engineering to give a special report to a group of regular undergraduate and graduate students. I've never even heard of such a thing, let alone seen it.
Professor Zheng said, "Professor Lin rarely invites outsiders to give lectures in the department. You've got some nerve, kid. You'd better get ready, or you'll embarrass yourself."
Chen Weiguo agreed verbally, but inwardly he was filled with emotion.
Just over a month ago, he was a level-six fitter in the workshop who was suspected of being a spy. Now, Tsinghua University has invited him to give lectures.
When Professor Zheng first told him that he was going to Tsinghua University to give a special report, Chen Weiguo thought it was just an internal exchange, at most a dozen people would sit in a classroom and listen to him talk and that would be it.
Two days later, Professor Zheng came to see him again, his expression much more serious than before: "Xiao Chen, your special report has been upgraded."
"Upgraded?" Chen Weiguo was still in shock and asked, "How was it upgraded?"
Professor Zheng handed him the notice: "Professor Lin from Tsinghua University felt that your thermal deformation compensation and vibration analysis not only had academic value, but also great potential for engineering transformation, so he reported it to the department, and the department then reported it to the university."
As a result, after the news spread, people from the First Ministry of Machine Building found out, as did people from the Yanjing Heavy Machinery Plant, and even a research institute under the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense was not left out.
This was no longer just a special report; it was upgraded to a formal technical presentation.
Chen Weiguo took the notice and saw that it was printed with the red letterhead of the First Ministry of Machine Building Industry and stamped with its seal.
The location has changed. It used to be described as a laboratory, but now it's listed as the small auditorium of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University.
Looking further down, the list of attending experts is clearly displayed.
Zhao Jishi, deputy chief engineer of the Equipment Department of the First Ministry of Machine Building, Meng Zhaofang, chief engineer of Yanjing Heavy Machinery Plant, and a technical director of a research institute of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense—whose full name was not listed, only his surname was left… Qian—followed by a note “not convenient to disclose.”
Add in Professor Zheng and Professor Lin, and any one of these five experts is a figure whose influence in the industry is so great that it can shake the world.