From January 18 to 19, 2024, the 1st Open Source Ecology Seminar on CAE Software Integrated Research and Development and CAE Software Integrated Research and Development Technology Training Conference was held in the Teachers' Salon of the Qihang Activity Center of Harbin Engineering University. The meeting was hosted by Harbin Engineering University National Characterization and Demonstration Software Institute and Heilongjiang Computer Society, and organized by Qingdao Digital Intelligence Ship Sea Technology Co. With the theme of "Open Source, Integration and Collaboration, Integration of Industry, Academia and Research", the seminar centered on the key technologies of CAE software research and development, including the integration platform, geometry, mesh, post-processing visualization, solver and other technologies to share. Cai Chengtao, dean of Harbin Engineering University's National Characterized and Demonstrated Software Institute, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

President Cai Chengtao said in his speech that China is facing a major challenge of industrial software autonomy, and CAE software as one of the key technologies, its independent research and development and application of the process is urgent. In the process of independent CAE software research and development, we need to face and solve many problems together. We hope that through this seminar, we can gather the wisdom and resources of all parties to build an open platform for technical communication, sharing and cooperation. Advocating the concept of "open source, integration and collaboration, integration of industry, academia and research", breaking down information barriers, accelerating technology iteration, and promoting the independent research and development process of China's CAE software.

The seminar invited Zhang Baolin, head of the industrial software team of the Fifth Research Institute of Electronics of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Li Guangjie, head of the open source community platform of Red Mountain, Fang Zhigang, director of the OpenGeometry Group open source community committee of the Digital Industrial Software Alliance, and Wan Decheng, director of the Research Center for Ship and Sea Computational Hydrodynamics of Shanghai Jiaotong University, and other experts from more than 20 industry enterprises to make a keynote report on the topic of open source ideas. More than 20 experts from industry enterprises made a keynote report around the open source idea, discussing the collaborative R&D mode of independent CAE software, the path of productization, the cultivation of industrial software talents, the integration of industry and research and other topics.

Under the joint efforts of experts and scholars, the institute, the community and all relevant units will work hand in hand with the goal of win-win cooperation to make new breakthroughs and create a new chapter in the output of major landmark achievements in the independent research and development and application of China's CAE software. While developing the characteristics of ship and sea, our college will carry out the construction of open source innovative talents training in depth, improve the quality of independent training of talents in a comprehensive manner, and continue to explore new ideas and paths for the high-quality construction of the characteristic and exemplary software colleges.