Recently, the “UAV Application Skills and Innovation” segment of 2022-2023 Guangdong Vocational College Students Skills Competition was held in Guangdong Women’s Polytechnic College. A total of 75 teams of 150 students from 38 colleges in 11 prefecture-level cities within the province participated in the competition. In the end, two teams from the UAV Application Technology major of the School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering both won the first prize for the third consecutive year.

UAV Application Skills and Innovation is based on real application scenarios, and according to the job technical requirements of UAV related enterprises, adopts the professional quality and safe flight evaluation of three modules (UAV fault analysis and maintenance, UAV flight control and UAV application development) throughout the whole competition process, which poses great challenges to the professional quality and safe flight ability of the contestants, aiming to build a competitive talent team of the whole industry chain.

The two teams awarded this time were composed of four students led by four instructors from the UAV Application Technology major. Among them, Wang Zhongxian and Luo Jiayi did not come into contact with UAV until the first semester of their sophomore year. It only took less than half a year for them to learn UAV related courses and participate in the skills competition training. Since the segment was announced, the UAV Application Technology major has set up a skills competition working group, formed a team of instructors with rich experience in teaching and competition, developed a detailed and thorough preparation plan for the competition and carefully organized the contestants to conduct systematic training. With concerted efforts between teachers and students, they finally delivered a satisfactory answer.

(Image/Li Peng; Text/Chen Youyi, School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering)