Wuchang Institute of Technology is a full-time general undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education. The school was founded in 2002. The level of schooling is mainly undergraduate. The country has issued a unified enrollment plan for ordinary colleges and universities, and enrolls students nationwide. It has the right to confer bachelor's degrees and independent enrollment rights for ordinary junior college upgrades.
The school is located in the central city of Wuhan, with the Yangtze River in the west, Huangjiahu University City in the south, and the Wuchang Uprising Gate known as the "Beginning of the First Uprising" of the Revolution of 1911 and the Wuchang Railway Station, one of the landmarks of Wuhan. The Wuhan South Gate Expressway (Baishazhou Avenue Elevated) and Yangsigang Yangtze River Bridge intersect in front of the school. The location is superior and the traffic is convenient. The school environment is elegant and the scenery is pleasant. The campus covers an area of 745 mu, with a building area of 350,000 square meters and more than 12,000 full-time students.
The school has excellent conditions. The library has nearly 1.1 million paper books, more than 2.8 million e-books, and more than 1,500 newspapers and periodicals; modern education technology is fully equipped, and the number of seats in multimedia classrooms and language rooms is more than 12,000; engineering training is built The center and other 16 major categories, 88 laboratories and more than 100 off-campus practice bases; with all kinds of complete sports and living facilities, the campus is harmonious and orderly.
The school has distinctive disciplines and outstanding advantages. It has formed a discipline layout that focuses on engineering and has six disciplines including engineering, management, economics, literature, art, and education. The school has set up majors for regional economic development. There are 8 secondary colleges and ideas in the School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, School of Information Engineering, School of Food and Environmental Engineering, School of Economics and Management, School of Accounting, School of International Education, and School of Art and Design. There are 2 teaching departments in the Political Theory Department and the Physical Education Department, with 66 undergraduate and junior college majors. Among them, the mechanical design and manufacturing and its automation majors and environmental design majors are the pilot majors for the transformation and development of Hubei Province; the business management discipline is the key (cultivation) discipline of Hubei Province; the food packaging and storage disciplines are the "Chutian Scholars Program" disciplines; machinery Design and manufacturing and its automation are the first batch of provincial-level key undergraduate majors; mechanical design and manufacturing and its automation majors and communication engineering majors are also included in the undergraduate program of the strategic emerging (pillar) industry talent training program in Hubei Province; marketing and civil engineering majors Engineering major is the "Professional Comprehensive Reform Pilot Project" project of Hubei Province undergraduate colleges and universities; Computer Science and Technology major is the "Jingchu Outstanding Talents" collaborative education program project of ordinary undergraduate colleges in Hubei Province. The school is one of the leading universities of the Hubei Province Collaborative Innovation Center approved by the Hubei Provincial Department of Education and the Department of Finance. In March 2014, the University Practice Teaching Equipment Research Center of the Ministry of Education was established in Wuchang Institute of Technology. The center is one of the first 14 educational equipment collaborative innovation research centers in the country and the only private university approved in the country. In November of the same year, the People's Government of Hubei Province agreed to award the internship training base jointly established by Wuchang Institute of Technology and other universities as the "provincial demonstration internship training base for universities in Hubei". Since 2015, the school and Wuhan University of Light Industry have jointly cultivated postgraduates in mechanical engineering. In 2016, the School of Mechanical Engineering was approved as a pilot college for university reform in Hubei Province.
The school adheres to the strategy of "establishing the school by quality and rejuvenating the school with talents", and has a team of teachers with reasonable structure, excellent academic skills and noble ethics. The school has more than 800 faculty members. Among the teaching staff, 95% of the faculty have doctoral and master's degrees, and more than 50% are teachers with associate titles or above. A group of well-known domestic experts, senior professors, and doctoral tutors serve as the deans of the second-level colleges. Together with academic leaders, the school has also hired more than 80 senior executives and technical experts from listed companies, government agencies, and industry associations as special-appointed professors at one time. The faculty ranks among the forefront of similar universities.
The school adheres to the school motto of "Honesty, Dedication, Self-improvement, and Innovation", and demonstrates the talent training concept of "Comprehensive development, highlighting talents". It teaches students in accordance with their aptitude, classifies teaching, focuses on cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability, and builds a talented person with both ability and political integrity. High-quality talent. In 2011, the school won the National University Campus Culture Outstanding Achievement Award. Students have won back more than 200 awards for the school in many national science and technology innovation and skill competitions, such as the National College English Contest, the National College Electronic Design Contest, the National College Student Software Design and Development Contest, and the National College Student Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Innovation Contest.
The school has established a complete system of "award, aid, loan, diligence, subsidy, exemption, and reduction" to aid students in need. It has established excellent student scholarships, special scholarships and bursaries as incentive measures, and Guangwen Education Fund, board of directors bursaries For the basic guarantee, the national scholarship, national inspirational scholarship, national bursary, and national student loans are the main channels, and the school work-study is the basic channel of the scholarship system to help students in need and rewards.
The employment rate of graduates in the school over the years has reached more than 90%, and the quality of talent training has been continuously improved, which has been affirmed by employers. Zhang Min, a graduate of the 2008 civil engineering major, is now the general manager of Jiangxi Guoli Construction Group and has become a leader in the construction industry in Jiangxi Province. In 2011, the company he led achieved a total output value of more than 3 billion yuan; Liu Jian, a trade major, is currently the chairman and legal representative of Shandong Hualu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and has won the 23rd Shandong Province Enterprise Management Modernization Innovation and Outstanding Application Achievement Special Award... With outstanding results, many students were admitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology and other well-known universities and research institutes to study for master's degree. In 2015, there were also two "best dormitories" where all members of the School of Mechanical Engineering were admitted to graduate students at the same time.
The school attaches great importance to scientific research work, a strong academic research atmosphere, continuous improvement of scientific research innovation capabilities and scientific and technological achievements, the number and quality of scientific research projects have increased year by year, the steady growth of scientific research funding, the obvious results of industry-university-research cooperation, effectively promoting the improvement of teaching quality. Improve the students' innovative ability.
Wuchang Institute of Technology has entered a new period of development. Standing on the new development node, the school will further condense the school-running characteristics, enhance the school’s core competitiveness, and strive to build the school into a first-class and domestically based school with outstanding characteristics. Well-known applied university.