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Guangzhou City Institute of Technology (formerly Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology) is a multi-disciplinary applied university approved by the Ministry of Education, which focuses on engineering and coordinated the development of economics, management, literature, science, and art. It was founded in 2006 by Guangzhou Yunfeng Enterprise and South China University of Technology. In 2021, the school was approved by the Ministry of Education to be converted to Guangzhou City Institute of Technology, which is an independent undergraduate level private general higher education school. The school is the Guangdong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School, the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Pilot School, and the first IACBE international business accredited university in China.
School conditions
The school is located in Huadu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with convenient transportation and superior geographical location. The campus is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with trees lined with trees, and a hundred flowers blooming. It is an elegant place for studying and pursuing scholarship. The school covers an area of 1753 acres and has 14 experimental centers, including 5 basic experimental centers and 9 professional experimental centers, 268 laboratories, and 543 employment and practice bases. 1 national off-campus practice base for college students, 2 national-level crowd-creation spaces, 7 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 7 provincial-level student off-campus practice bases, 1 provincial-level collaborative education platform, and 2 provincial-level first-class majors , 11 provincial-level quality engineering specialty specialties, 3 provincial-level quality engineering applied talent training demonstration majors, and 3 provincial-level quality engineering professional comprehensive reform pilot projects.
Faculty
The school adheres to the strategy of “strengthening the school with talents”, and improves the level of the teaching staff through measures such as the “old age to bring the new”, the “double-hundred project”, and the formation of subject teams. A team of high-quality teachers mainly and supplemented by part-time teachers.
Among them, there are 1 national outstanding teacher, 1 national outstanding educator, 3 enjoying special allowance of the State Council, 3 famous teaching teachers in Guangdong Province, 1 advanced individual in teacher ethics in Guangdong Province, 4 outstanding teachers in private colleges and universities in Guangdong Province, and outstanding in Nanyue 3 teachers. In 2018, Professor Honghong Zhao won the highest honor award for architectural educators in my country-China Architectural Design Award•Architectural Education Award.
The project of "Application-oriented Innovative Talent Cultivation Model Based on Science and Technology Competition-Exploration and Practice of Talent Cultivation in Independent Colleges" and "Research and Practice of Application-oriented Talent Cultivation of Power Industry with Emphasis on Characteristics, Strong Practice and Abrupt Skills" hosted by teachers of our school Has won the second prize of provincial teaching achievement. In 2020, the "Exploration and Practice of the Professional Connotation Construction Model of Private Colleges and Universities Guided by the Concept of Professional Certification" hosted by Professor Zeng Zhixin of our school won the first prize of the Provincial Teaching Achievement Award.
major
Aiming at the development of regional industries and the construction of new engineering disciplines, the school actively promotes the docking of the discipline chain, the professional chain and the industrial chain, and constantly adjusts and optimizes the distribution of disciplines.
Existing School of Automobile and Traffic Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Electronic Information Engineering, School of Communication Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Computer Engineering, School of Management, School of Economics, School of Foreign Languages, School of Jewelry, School of Architecture, School of Civil Engineering, International Business There are 16 secondary colleges including the College of Robotics, the College of Robotics, the College of Big Data, and the College of Marxism. They have set up vehicle engineering, robotics engineering, electronic information engineering, communication engineering, new energy science and engineering, computer science and technology, accounting, and finance. There are 43 majors in engineering, English, gem and material technology, architecture, civil engineering, investment, intelligent construction, and visual communication, covering 16 first-level disciplines and 24 second-level disciplines. The school has 2 provincial-level key construction disciplines, 2 provincial-level first-class majors, 3 provincial-level applied talent training demonstration majors, and 3 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilot projects.
talent development
The school always regards the quality of talent training as the foundation of the school, and strives to cultivate high-quality applied innovative talents. The “third-year strategy” aimed at enhancing the core competitiveness of students’ employment has been implemented successively. Students will start from the third year of practice, focusing on building a new knowledge, ability, and quality structure system for applied talents, and building a training system for skills and vocational qualifications. Build a personal development and innovation practice guarantee system, build an employment service system, and focus on the cultivation of students' "expertise"; pioneeringly put forward a "personal expansion plan", specially set up a "expertise expansion module", and use 15 credits to personalize students The training system of “horizontal expansion and vertical improvement” has been formed; the “Student Research Program” (SRP) project has been specially set up to boldly break through the classroom-centered teaching model and focus on engineering research. Relying on the college, it adopts various forms such as "research-based learning", "inquiry-based learning", "participating in research and development projects, and learning with research tasks" to focus on cultivating students' innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities.
Students are fully trained in various innovative and entrepreneurial practice bases, college student entrepreneurship parks, club organizations and other distinctive educational practice platforms. Students have repeatedly achieved good results in various academic technology competitions and innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. They have won 57 international competition awards, 678 national competition awards, and 1052 provincial awards. Among them, they won the 16th "Challenge Cup" nationwide. 1 second prize of the college students’ extracurricular academic science and technology work competition, the "Low-Carbon Energy-saving Guardrail Spraying Car" National Daiso project was invited to be displayed at the 13th National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference and won the "My Favorite Project", It is the only private college in Guangdong Province selected for the National Daiso Annual Conference.
Scientific research
Based on the construction of technological innovation and industrialization platform, the school attaches importance to applied research and achievement transformation. It has successively established the Engineering Research Institute and the Intelligent Manufacturing Industry College, established a scientific research innovation platform and a platform for achievement transformation and industrial technology service, and has achieved a large number of high-quality scientific research results. In the past five years, the school has been approved for 365 scientific research projects, with a total of 57.75 million yuan in scientific research funding, with an average annual increase of more than 20% in the research funding of the school; 1415 papers have been published, 1421 patents have been applied for, 1147 patents have been granted, and patent applications have been made. The amount and authorized amount continued to rank first among private undergraduate colleges in Guangdong Province, and was approved as a pilot school for intellectual property rights in Guangzhou. In 2018, the school and South China University of Technology launched the joint training of postgraduates and has recruited students for three sessions.
School-enterprise collaboration
The school continuously innovates the school-running model, actively explores new models and new ways of cooperating with industries and enterprises to educate people, and develops in-depth cooperation with enterprises to coordinate education.
A collaborative education platform for practical innovation, a collaborative education alliance for advanced manufacturing technology, a collaborative education platform for information and communication technology, a collaborative education alliance for computer engineering colleges and IT companies, and a collaborative education platform for jewelry universities and enterprises have been established. There are 5 school-level collaborative education platforms, and 3 school-level collaborative centers, including the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Collaborative Innovation Development Center, the Intelligent Technology Collaborative Innovation Development Center, and the Internet of Vehicles Collaborative Innovation Development Center. Among them, the Information and Communication Technology Collaborative Education Platform is Guangdong One of the first batch of 40 provincial collaborative education platforms recognized by the Provincial Department of Education.
In 2018, the school, the School Planning and Construction Development Center of the Ministry of Education, and Sugon of China Science and Technology Co., Ltd. jointly established the "Big Data Academy" and the "Big Data Application Innovation Center".
In 2019, the School of Intelligent Manufacturing Industry of our school was awarded the first batch of exemplary industry colleges in Guangdong Province.
Open school
Focusing on the "One Belt One Road" initiative and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's demand for internationalized talents, the school takes the internationalization of education as an important development strategy. It has successively established cooperative relations with more than 10 educational developed countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Taiwan, and signed cooperation agreements with more than 60 high-level universities and institutions to carry out diversified cooperation.
In 2011, the school established the International Business School to introduce international business resources and cultivate international business professionals. At present, the school’s various international, Guangdong-Taiwan exchanges and cooperation projects have penetrated into all secondary colleges, and various forms of professional co-construction have been carried out with well-known universities at home and abroad, such as Curtin University in Australia and the University of California, Riverside. Joint training project.
The school actively promotes professional international certification and has obtained IACBE international business certification and IEET engineering certification. It is the first university in China to be certified by IACBE and the vice chairman unit of IACBE Asia. Nine majors of the School of Management, International Business School, and School of Economics have successively passed the IACBE certification. The certified majors cover all business schools, marking that the school’s business education quality has reached the level of international peers and achieving equal dialogue; at the same time, mechanical engineering, vehicle engineering and communications Engineering majors have also successively passed IEET engineering education certification, and talent training complies with EAC international certification standards.
Brand Building
In the past 16 years, the school has provided a total of 42,000 talents of various types to the society, and the average employment rate and employment quality of graduates have steadily ranked in the forefront of similar universities in the country. At the "Tenth National Summit of Independent Colleges", Wei Zhonglin, Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Education, gave our school "Unique school philosophy and positioning, unique characteristics for industry-oriented education, unique characteristics of school-enterprise collaborative education, and talent training Five distinctive features are highly praised, including the unique characteristics of reform and innovation, and unique characteristics of international education and exchanges. The school has successively won awards such as "China's Most Competitive College for Employment", "Top Ten Independent Colleges Most Trusted by Students in the Country", and "The Most Influential Independent College in China". In the 2021 China Private University Rankings (including independent colleges) released by iResearch Alumni Association.com, the school ranks seventh among China's private universities in 2021, and is a top six-star private university in China. It is ranked 235th in the 2020 China Applied Universities rankings released by the Guangzhou Daily GDI Think Tank, 19th in Guangdong Applied University, and 5th in the National Independent College.
Sixteen years of stringed songs are sung and blooming, and 90,000 miles of colorful clouds are growing in the new sky. Standing at a new starting point in the new era, the school will work hard to achieve the same morals, with the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the banner, adhere to honesty, standardization, reform, innovation, and truth-seeking. Adhere to the establishment of high-quality schools, the development of schools with characteristics, and the strengthening of schools with talents, and continue to deepen the cultivation of high-quality applied talents, converge to grow and become talents with students, walk with regional economic and social development, and dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation The solid strength of the peers is striving forward towards the goal of building a world-renowned applied university with Chinese characteristics.