Recently, the final of the 10th "Academic Three Minutes" Speech Competition for graduate students of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, the "Class of 1996 Alumni Cup," concluded successfully in the university's academic lecture hall. Huang Weiran, a 2024 master's student of the Institute of Engineering Technology (hereinafter referred to as "IET"), won the Silver Award with her solid academic competence and outstanding on-site performance.

With the topic "Dual-Driven Empowerment, Precise Corrosion Resistance," she elaborated on the R&D and application of seawater-corrosion-resistant steel, a key basic material for marine engineering. She highlighted the practical path of precisely regulating the comprehensive properties of the material and balancing practical performance with production costs through joint efforts in composition optimization and process improvement, vividly demonstrating the important role of advanced material technology in enhancing the marine corrosion resistance of steel, consolidating the protective foundation of marine equipment, empowering the high-quality development of marine engineering and supporting the building of a maritime power.

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Huang Weiran is a 2024 master's student majoring in Materials Engineering at IET and Chair of the Graduate Student Union. During her studies, aiming at "diligent study, solid practice and all-round development," she has won many honors, including the Second Prize in the "Youth AI" Artificial Intelligence Plus Special Competition of the "Challenge Cup" Capital University Students' Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition of "Youth Innovation Beijing" 2025, the Third Prize in the 16th Beijing Graduate Student English Speech Competition, the First-Class Academic Scholarship and the Jinheng Scholarship of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, the title of Merit Graduate Student of USTB, and the Second Prize in the university-level Graduate Student English Speech Competition.

As a brand activity with distinctive features for building a good academic style, the "Academic Three Minutes" Speech Competition for graduate students of USTB adheres to the core concept of "expounding scholarship through speech" and fully demonstrates graduate students' solid professional competence, rigorous scholarly attitude, innovative way of thinking and outstanding expressive ability. As an important part of the university's "Iron Backbone" education action plan for the new era, the competition has been successfully held ten times since it was founded in 2016. It has not only built a stage for graduate students to showcase their academic style, but also brought forth many outstanding students of quick wit and profound learning, forming extensive and far-reaching influence on campus and being highly praised by teachers and students.

In the next step, IET will continue to focus on cultivating the scientific research literacy of young people, guiding the vast number of young students to write their papers on the soil of the motherland, to serve national development with what they have learned, and to write a chapter of striving that belongs to young researchers of the new era.