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Liaoning Institute of Science and Technology is located in Shenxi New City, Liaoning Province, 20 kilometers away from Shenyang Taoxian International Airport. It is a provincial general undergraduate college that focuses on engineering and develops multi-disciplinary coordination. The school’s predecessor, Benxi Metallurgical College, can be traced back to the Benxi County Normal School, which was established in 1907. After the liberation of Northeast China in 1948, the People's Government took over the school and changed its name to Benxi Engineering Senior Vocational School. In 1958, it was upgraded to Benxi Iron and Steel Institute. In May 2004, it was renamed Liaoning Institute of Science and Technology. In 2015, the school was identified as one of the first batch of undergraduate pilot schools in Liaoning Province to transform to application-oriented. In 2016, it was identified as a key university supported by the Ministry of Education for the construction of an industry-education integration project. U.S. Applied Technology Education "Double Hundred Plan" pilot colleges and "Internet + Made in China 2025" production-education integration promotion program pilot colleges, were identified as the first in the country in the Ministry of Education's "Scientific Capability Enhancement Program (Ten Million Project)" in 2017 The first batch of pilot universities in the “Hundred Cities, Thousand Schools” of the China University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance, Liaoning Province has transformed into an application-oriented model school.
The school occupies an area of 871,000 square meters, with a construction area of 390,000 square meters. The original value of fixed assets was 950 million yuan, of which: the original value of teaching and research equipment was 185 million yuan. The library has a collection of 1.005 million books. There are 40 on-campus laboratories (centers), 4 provincial engineering research centers, 4 engineering laboratories, 4 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 provincial college student innovation and entrepreneurship education base, and provincial college student off-campus practice education base 8 There are 1 provincial-level university student entrepreneurship incubation demonstration base, and 1 provincial-level dual innovation demonstration base.
The school has 17 secondary teaching units, which are mainly engineering, covering 36 undergraduate majors and 8 higher vocational majors in the five disciplines of engineering, management, literature, art, and education. There are 1 national undergraduate comprehensive reform pilot major, 1 provincial undergraduate comprehensive reform pilot major, 1 provincial key undergraduate construction major, 1 provincial undergraduate engineering talent training model reform pilot major, and provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education reform pilot 2 majors, 8 characteristic majors at or above the provincial level, 5 provincial-level teaching teams, 13 school-level teaching teams, 10 school-level scientific research teams, 14 provincial-level quality courses, and the discipline of iron and steel metallurgy is listed as a provincial-level characteristic discipline And key cultivation disciplines.
There are 901 faculty members and 619 full-time teachers, including 310 professors and associate professors, and 495 teachers with master's and doctoral degrees. There are 4 experts who enjoy special government allowances. Flexible introduction of 1 Changjiang scholar. There are 1 national outstanding teacher, 36 candidates for Liaoning Province’s Ten Thousand Thousand Talents Project, 1 Liaoning Province outstanding expert, 2 Liaoning Province outstanding teachers, 2 provincial-level teaching teachers, and 3 outstanding young backbone teachers in regular colleges and universities in Liaoning Province . There are 10,296 full-time undergraduate and junior college students, of which 8,529 are undergraduates. The employment rate of graduates has remained above 95% in recent years, ranking among the top universities in the province.
The school actively carries out applied scientific research for the industry and the local area. In recent years, it has undertaken a total of 673 scientific research projects of various types, including 18 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Science and Technology Support Plan, and 172 projects above the provincial level. Undertook 173 education and teaching research and teaching reform projects above the provincial level, and won 19 provincial teaching achievement awards, including 3 first prizes.
In recent years, the school has taken the transformation and development as a breakthrough to build a platform for integration of production and education of "school-enterprise, school-government, and school-school" cooperation, actively adapting to the needs of local economic development, and actively developing social services such as technology and government consulting. Major breakthroughs have been made in major projects of transformation and development. The National "Thirteenth Five-Year" Production and Education Integration Development Project Planning Project was approved; the national "Benxi City Industrial Transformation Technical and Skilled Talent Dual Cultivation and Reform Pilot Program" project was approved. Cooperate extensively with enterprises to jointly build industrial colleges. Cooperate with Zhongke Shuguang Group to run a school to build a "Big Data Academy"; cooperate with the United States Applied Technology Education Alliance (GCC-GATE) to build a "Sino-American Double Hundred Academy", and cooperate with Xinsong Robotics to build a "new "Song Robot Application College" has gradually formed a new customized talent training model.
Launched the action plan for serving local areas, facing the reality of industrial development in Liaoning Province, and continuously improving the ability of collaborative innovation and serving local economic and social development. There are 1 state-level technology transfer demonstration institution, 3 provincial-level public technology service platforms, 1 provincial-level industrial cluster window service platform, and 4 municipal-level key laboratories. Relying on the technological advantages of the school's talents, 10 scientific research institutes (institutes) have been established, including the Large Materials Application Research Institute. These research institutes have become important research and consulting service bases for local governments. Encourage teachers to carry out applied scientific research, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, actively carry out the activity of "100 professors under the enterprise", and play the role of "think tank" and "think tank".
Actively carry out industry-university-research cooperative education, take the lead in forming the "Liaoning Robot Industry School-Enterprise Alliance" and become the chairman unit of the alliance. Build a stable school-enterprise cooperation platform and become the governing unit of 27 school-enterprise alliances. At the same time, with China Aviation Industry Corporation, Qingdao Haier Co., Ltd., Northeast Electric Power Group, China Energy Construction Group, China Railway Construction Group, China Metallurgical Construction Group, State Grid Corporation, State Power Investment Group, Shenhua Group, China National Gold Group, Beijing Shenzhou Digital, Beijing Iron and Steel Research Institute, Shougang Group, Baowu Group, Anshan Iron and Steel Group, China Minmetals Corporation, Brilliance Automobile Group Co., Ltd., China Railway Construction Corporation, Benxi Iron and Steel Group, China Construction Bank, China Industry and Commerce More than 500 enterprises and institutions, including banks, China Mobile Communications, and China State Construction Engineering Corporation, have established cooperative relationships, accepting students' internships, practical training, and employment.
Vigorously carry out foreign cooperation and exchanges, and adhere to the international development strategy. Jointly cultivate master's students with Northeastern University, Liaoning Technical University, Liaoning University of Science and Technology and many other universities. It has also established good cooperative relations with Shilla University in South Korea, Dhurakij University in Thailand, Putra University in Malaysia, Wittur National Institute of Technology in New Zealand, Pacific National University in Russia, Japan Co., Ltd., etc. to continuously expand the path of international development of school education.
As socialism with Chinese characteristics enters a new era, Liaoning Institute of Science and Technology continues to deepen comprehensive reforms, in-depth promotion of connotative development, steadily improve school quality and collaborative innovation capabilities, and adhere to the "applied, local, industrial, and international" school positioning Based in Liaoning, relying on the industry, condensing characteristics, building a brand, and striving to build the school into a distinctive applied technology university, making new and greater contributions to regional economic and social development and northeast revitalization.