Taiyuan Institute of Technology

Taiyuan Institute of Technology is located in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province. It is managed by the People’s Government of Shanxi Province. It focuses on engineering and features engineering applications. It covers eight disciplines including engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law, art, and teaching. , A full-time general undergraduate university with multi-disciplinary mutual support and coordinated development; it is the national "13th Five-Year" applied undergraduate industry and education integration development project support university, and it is the first batch of pilot universities identified by Shanxi Province to transform to an application. It is a model university in Shanxi Province to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.

The school was founded in 1954, formerly known as the North China Fifth Industrial School. It was a national key technical secondary school established during my country’s first "Five-Year Plan" period to meet the needs of national defense construction. It was upgraded to a junior college in 1988 and enrolled in 1999. Undergraduate students, approved by the Ministry of Education in March 2007, were independently set up as a full-time general undergraduate school and renamed "Taiyuan Institute of Technology". In 2015, it successfully passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. In 2015, it formally joined the China Applied Technology University (College) Alliance. In 2017, it initiated the establishment of the "Shanxi Provincial Applied Colleges Alliance" with some universities in the province. Over the past 67 years, the school has inherited the military spirit of continuous self-improvement and dedication, and practiced the school motto of "knowledge and action, and action speaks louder than words", and trained more than 90,000 students with high comprehensive quality, professional foundation and practice for the defense industry and national economic construction. Excellent talents with strong abilities have played an important role in the country's economic and social development, especially in the development of the weapons industry, and once enjoyed the reputation of the "Little Huangpu" in the weapons system.

The school covers an area of 405,000 square meters, with a total construction area of 312,000 square meters. The total value of fixed assets is 956 million yuan, of which the total value of teaching and research equipment is 231 million yuan. The library has 1.88 million books (including e-books). A computer network system and an information management platform covering the campus have been built. Various supporting service facilities are continuously improved, and various teaching, living, sports and other facilities are complete.

The school has Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, Department of Automation, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, Department of Environmental and Safety Engineering, Department of Materials Engineering, Department of Science, Department of Economics and Management, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of Design and Art, and Department of Law , There are 13 departments in the Department of Physical Education, the Department of Ideological and Political Theory Teaching and Research, and the Department of Continuing Education. There are 47 undergraduate majors, recruiting students from 30 provinces (cities, districts) across the country, and 17,043 full-time students. There are 937 faculty members, including 780 full-time teachers, 226 teachers with senior professional titles, and 718 masters and above. Among them, 1 national outstanding educator, 1 selected by the Ministry of Education "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", 1 provincial excellent teaching team, 9 Shanxi "131" leading talents, and outstanding young academics from colleges and universities in Shanxi Province There are 2 leaders, 6 famous teachers in Shanxi Province, 10 "Three Jin Talents" in the education field of Shanxi Province, 112 "double teachers and dual ability" teachers, and 1 academic and technical leader in Shanxi Province. At the same time, the school also pays attention to hiring well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad as honorary professors, distinguished professors, part-time professors and visiting professors, 2 specially-appointed academicians, 1 Changjiang Scholar, and 1 unmanned system team.

The school carries out applied undergraduate education and teaching work around the education and teaching philosophy of "consolidating the foundation, focusing on ability, highlighting practice, and encouraging innovation". The school continues to accelerate the construction of majors related to regional (industry) leading industries and strategic emerging industries, and gradually forms a new pattern of coordinated development of the six university disciplines and the development of disciplines and majors to lead the school's development. It has one of the first batch of comprehensive reform pilot majors (applied chemistry) in local colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education of "Undergraduate Teaching Engineering", and two superior majors (applied chemistry, polymer materials and engineering) of Shanxi Province colleges and universities. Five majors, applied chemistry, polymer materials and engineering, computer science and technology, electronic information engineering, and automation, were rated as provincial characteristic majors. The five disciplines of materials science and engineering, information and communication engineering, chemical engineering and technology, mechanical engineering, and environmental science and engineering are provincial key supporting disciplines, among which materials science and engineering disciplines are the advantages of Shanxi Province’s "1331 Project" key discipline construction plan Featured subjects. There are 1 national quality course, 1 national first-class undergraduate course, 4 project construction courses, 10 provincial quality resource sharing courses, 6 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, One provincial-level virtual simulation experiment project was identified, two projects were constructed, and one provincial-level talent training model innovation experimental zone. Textbooks such as "Visual C++ Programming and Computer Guidance" have been included in the national planning textbooks, and have won many teaching reform awards at all levels, including the Shanxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Special Award and the first prize. There are 16 teaching experiment centers and 95 laboratories, including 7 laboratory projects jointly built by the central and local governments. According to the 2020 China University Rankings by the Alumni Association of China, the college ranks 445 and is among the universities in Shanxi Province. Ranked 12th.

The school attaches great importance to the quality education of "focusing on innovative practice and highlighting application ability". The school-running characteristics of "promoting teaching with training and promoting learning with competition" are becoming more and more prominent, with outstanding achievements in subject competitions, and perfecting the "national-regional-provincial-academic level" Subject competition system. In recent years, students have won more than 1,200 awards at or above the provincial level in various competitions. The school robot team won the championship of the 13th National University Robot Competition and was awarded the "Shanxi Youth May 4th Certificate" by the Provincial Committee of the League. In 2019, students participated in the ROBOMASTER Mecha Master Finals of the National College Student Robotics Competition and won the first prize; participated in the 6th National College Student Engineering Training Comprehensive Ability Competition and won 4 special prizes. In 2020, students participated in the 9th National College Student Mechanical Innovation Competition and won 1 first prize; participated in the 15th National College Student Smart Car and won 5 first prizes; participated in the National College Student Advertising Art Competition 1 first prize; participated in the country Won the first prize in the chemical experiment competition for college students; won the first prize in the National College Student Chemical Design Competition; won the first prize in the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Contest, the National College Student Mechanical Innovation Design Contest, Fischer Contest, Shanxi Xingjin Challenge Cup College Student Entrepreneurship Contest The results of other events are also among the best in the province. Our school entered the top 100 in the 2020 National College Student Competition Ranking (Undergraduate), ranked 69 in 2020, and entered the top 100 in a single year for 3 consecutive years. In addition, cultural and sports activities have also achieved outstanding results. The school orienteering team participated in the Shanxi Provincial Student Orienteering Championships in the college group A competition, and won the championship in all events of the group competition in one fell swoop, and won the first place in the team total score by an absolute advantage; college student football The team participated in the 2016 Chinese University Football League and won the Shanxi Division (men's undergraduate group) championship. In 2019, the school men’s basketball team won the 22nd CUBA Chinese College Basketball League Shanxi Division (undergraduate group) championship; the school rock climbing team was in the national college rock climbing north In the regional competition, 3 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 3 bronze medals were won. In recent years, outstanding groups such as the national "outstanding class collective", the national top ten "three-good student model", the national "outstanding student cadre", and the "advanced collective" and "advanced individual" in the organization of the second National Youth Games have emerged. And personal.

The school follows the principle of "demand-oriented, deep integration", strengthens the interdisciplinary (group) interleaving, and promotes the integrated development of "production, study, research and application". With the construction of a collaborative innovation center as the carrier, continuously strengthen foreign exchanges and cooperation; deepen close contacts and resource sharing with scientific research institutes, industry enterprises and other universities; introduce various social resources, gather innovative elements, stimulate innovation vitality, and promote school talents The coordinated development of the "four in one" of training, discipline construction, scientific research and social services will further promote Shanxi's regional economic development and industrial transformation and upgrading. In 2017, the Collaborative Innovation Center for New Functional Materials was recognized as a Category B supplementary construction project of the "1331 Project" Collaborative Innovation Center Construction Plan (the first batch) of Shanxi Province. In 2018, the discipline group of energy storage new materials was successfully approved as the "Cultivation Project" of the "Service Industry Innovation Discipline Group Construction Plan" of Shanxi Province. In 2018, the Clean and Renewable Energy Engineering Technology Development Engineering Research Center was selected as the "1331 Project" Engineering (Technology) Research Center construction plan of Shanxi Province. In 2019, the school was approved as the "Provincial Double Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base" in Shanxi Province and became the fifth "university and scientific research institute" innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration construction unit in our province. The school has a provincial-level innovation space for lean manufacturing. There are more than 210 high-quality off-campus internship training bases. In 2020, Shanxi Province Digital Design and Manufacturing Technology Innovation Center and Shanxi Province Energy Storage Material Technology Innovation Center were approved as "Shanxi Province Industry and Information Industry New Research and Development Institution Cultivation Unit". The number and quality of monographs, SCI, and EI papers have been increasing year by year, the number of authorized patents and award-winning scientific and technological achievements has increased significantly, the channels for scientific research projects have been continuously expanded, and the horizontal contracting funds have increased significantly, especially in the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Continuous breakthroughs have been made. The ability to serve regional economic and social development continues to improve.

The school implements the "internationalization strategic project", actively expands international communication channels, continuously increases the intensity of international exchanges and cooperation, accelerates the process of internationalization, and improves the level of international schooling. It has successively cooperated with the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Russia, South Korea, etc. Dozens of universities have carried out multi-level, two-way international exchanges and cooperation in personnel training, creating good conditions for students to go abroad, teachers to exchange for further studies, and to introduce high-quality foreign teaching and research resources.

The school builds an "all-round, multi-level" campus culture, actively exerts the function of environmental education, and strives to create a civilized, harmonious, healthy and progressive campus cultural atmosphere. It has been awarded many times as "Civilized Unit" in Shanxi Province, "Pacemaker of Civilized Units in Higher Education Institutions" in Shanxi Province, "Safe Unit" in Shanxi Province, Advanced Unit in the Work of Creating "Safe Campus" in Shanxi Province, "Safe Model Unit" in Provincial Capital, and "Pacemaker in Social Security in Shanxi Province" "Excellent Unit for Comprehensive Governance Work", Advanced Collective of Senior Cadres Work in Shanxi Province, May 1 Labor Certificate of Shanxi Province Education, Science, Culture, and Sports System, "May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee" of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan City Gardening Model Unit and other honorary titles.

Today, when the country implements the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and building an innovative country, the school adheres to the school positioning of "based on Shanxi, facing the whole country, and connecting with ordnance industry", and explores "application-oriented undergraduate colleges with distinctive engineering application characteristics and regional (industry) important influences." The development path of “School” strives to build a first-class application-oriented industrial university in Shanxi and an important national influential application-oriented industrial university.