The University of Science and Technology Beijing was established in 1952 by the Mining and Metallurgical Departments of 6 famous domestic universities, including Tianjin University (formerly Beiyang University) and Tsinghua University. The Ministry of Education, which has coordinated the development of multiple disciplines such as Law and Law, is directly under the national key universities and is one of the first colleges and universities to formally establish a graduate school in the country. In May 1997, the school first entered the ranks of the national "211 Project" construction colleges and universities. In 2006, the school became the first batch of pilot universities for the "985 Project" superior discipline innovation platform construction project. In 2014, the “Iron and Steel Generic Technology Collaborative Innovation Center” led by the university, with Beijing University of Science and Technology and Northeastern University as the core universities, was successfully selected into the national “2011 Plan”. In 2017, the school was selected as a national "double first-class" construction university.
Since its establishment 66 years ago, the school has gradually formed the fine tradition of "rigorous learning style and advocating practice", and has cultivated more than 200,000 talents of various types for the society. Most of them have become national politics, economy, technology, education and other fields, especially metallurgy. , The pillar and backbone of the materials industry. Party and state leaders Luo Gan, Liu Qi, Xu Kuangdi, Huang Mengfu, Fan Changlong, Guo Shengkun, Liu Xiaofeng, etc. have all studied at the school. Another 38 alumni were elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Long leadership positions, a large number of alumni have served as the chairman or general manager of large national companies such as Baowu Group, Anshan Iron and Steel Group, Aluminum Corporation of China, Shenhua Group and Xinxing Jihua. The school is known as the "cradle of steel".
The school is located on Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, where many colleges and universities gather. It covers an area of approximately 803,900 square meters (including Guanzhuang campus) and a total building area of 970,000 square meters (including Guanzhuang campus). The school has 1 national science center, 1 "2011 plan" collaborative innovation center, 2 national key laboratories, 2 national engineering (technical) research centers, 2 national science and technology basic condition platforms, and 2 national international science and technology Cooperation bases, 50 provincial and ministerial-level key laboratories, engineering research centers, international cooperation bases, innovation bases, etc. Especially in 2007, as the first university directly under the Ministry of Education, the school took the lead in undertaking a major national science and technology infrastructure project-a major engineering material service safety research evaluation facility, and was responsible for the preparation of the National Material Service Safety Science Center. The library has a physical collection of more than 2.31 million volumes (pieces). Regularly publish "Journal of Engineering Science", "Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing (Social Science Edition)", "International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials", "Ideological Education Research", "Logistics Technology and Application", "Metal World", "Powder Metallurgy Technology" and other important Academic publications.
The school consists of the School of Civil and Resource Engineering, the School of Metallurgy and Ecological Engineering, the School of Materials Science and Engineering, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Energy and Environmental Engineering, the School of Automation, the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, the School of Mathematics and Physics, the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Dongling It is composed of the School of Economics and Management, the School of Arts and Law, the School of Marxism, the School of Foreign Languages, and the School of Advanced Engineering, as well as the Graduate School, the Department of Physical Education, the Guanzhuang Campus, the Tianjin University, and the Yanqing Branch. There are 20 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 30 first-level discipline master degree authorization points, 79 second-level discipline doctorate authorization points, 137 second-level discipline master degree authorization points, and MBA (including EMBA), There are 8 professional degree authorization sites including MPA, Master of Laws, Master of Accounting, Master of Translation, Social Work, Cultural Relics and Museums, and Master of Engineering, 16 post-doctoral research mobile stations, and 50 undergraduate majors. The school's four national first-level key disciplines of metallurgical engineering, materials science and engineering, mining engineering, and history of science and technology are well-known at home and abroad (in 2017, it entered the ranks of the national world-class discipline construction; in the fourth round of subject evaluation, metallurgical engineering, history of science and technology A+ for materials science and engineering, A) for safety science and engineering, environmental science and engineering, control science and engineering, power engineering and engineering thermophysics, mechanical engineering, computer science and technology, civil engineering, chemistry, foreign languages A number of disciplines such as literature, management science and engineering, business administration, and Marxist theory have strong strengths, and basic disciplines such as mechanics, physics, mathematics, information and communication engineering, instrument science and technology, nanomaterials and devices, optoelectronic information materials and devices, etc. And interdisciplinary is full of vitality.
As of the end of 2017, there were more than 24,000 full-time students, including 13,663 undergraduates and junior college students, 10,125 postgraduates (including 6,959 master students and 3166 doctoral students), 985 international students, and 4,030 students in the College of Adult Education. There are 65,025 distance education students. There are 239 postdoctoral fellows at the station. A multi-level and relatively complete talent training system has been formed for graduate education, full-time undergraduate and junior college, higher vocational education, adult education, continuing education and distance education.
The school has a rigorous teaching staff. There are 3375 faculty members, 495 faculty members with senior professional and technical positions, 792 faculty members with associate-senior professional technical positions, of which 1760 are full-time teachers. There are 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (2 double-employed), 1 member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 5 members of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 3 chief scientists of the National 973 Program, and the National Thousand Talents Program "(Including the "Thousand Young Talents Program") 20 people were selected, 15 national-level experts with outstanding contributions, 10 provincial and ministerial-level experts with outstanding contributions, 14 distinguished professors, 4 lecture professors, and 2 young scholars, 20 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 3 leading talents in the "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 3 top-notch young talents, 2 national-level teaching teachers, 18 candidates for the National Hundred and Thousand Talents Project, national outstanding There are 11 winners of the Youth Science Fund, 29 famous teaching teachers in Beijing, and 104 cross-century/new century outstanding talents from the Ministry of Education.
The scientific research strength of the school is very strong. From 1978 to the end of December 2017, a total of 6,859 patents were applied for and 4064 patents were authorized; more than 2,000 scientific research achievements have won various awards at the national, provincial, and ministerial levels, including 169 national awards. In 1999, the "List of Major Achievements Awarded by Chinese Higher Education Institutions in 50 Years of Science and Technology" compiled by the Ministry of Education included 12 major scientific research achievements of University of Science and Technology Beijing, which ranked among the best in the country. According to statistics from the Ministry of Education, from 1978 to 2011, the school won 4 first prizes for National Science and Technology Progress, ranking 4th among universities in the country. In recent years, the school "research on key technologies for safe and efficient mining of large deep-pit mines", "jet boiling cooling enhanced multifunctional quenching and cooling equipment and process development and innovation", "atmospheric corrosion data accumulation, rules and sharing services for iron and steel materials and products" "Complete set of key technologies and applications for hot strip steel hot rolling production", "Key technologies for high-efficiency open-pit-underground combined mining under complex crushing conditions", "Research and application of seepage theory and development methods for effective development of ultra-low permeability reservoirs", "Extrusion of large aluminum alloy profiles" A large number of scientific research achievements, such as the design and manufacturing technology and application of the complete set of tool and die, "the direct forming technology and application of high-performance copper-aluminum composite material continuous casting", and the key technology and application of risk prevention and control for the development of large-scale deep mining resources. It played an important role and obtained huge economic and social benefits. According to the data released in 2017, in 2016, the number of papers published by teachers and students of the school was included in the "SCIE" and "EI", ranking 30th and 19th among universities in the country.
The school continues to expand the field of social services and development space, and has signed comprehensive cooperation agreements with more than 130 domestic provincial and municipal governments, large enterprises and institutions. At the same time, the school aims at the forefront of the world and strengthens international cooperation. It has established cooperative relations with more than 170 famous universities and scientific research institutions such as Aachen University of Technology in Germany, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and carried out substantive cooperation. .
With the fundamental task of cultivating the builders and successors of the socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics in the new era, the school focuses on the cultivation of students' comprehensive quality and innovation and entrepreneurial abilities. The school is rated as an advanced unit of social practice in colleges and universities across the country every year, and its students have won many awards in various national and Beijing competitions over the years. In particular, the student representative team has repeatedly achieved good results in competitions such as the "National College Student Smart Car Competition", "National College Student Robot Competition", "National College Student Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction and Social Practice Competition", and "National Challenge Cup Entrepreneurship Plan Competition". The original school history dramas "Burning" and "Blooming" have successively won the highest awards for campus dramas. The school also attaches great importance to student ideological and moral education, and strives to create a campus cultural atmosphere that cultivates students’ patriotism, collectivism and socialist spirit. It has been awarded "Beijing Civilized Campus", "Beijing Advanced University for Party Building and Ideological and Political Work" Honorable titles such as "the pacesetter of civilized units in the capital".
The school's athletic level and mass sports activities enjoy a high reputation in Beijing and even the whole country. A group of national outstanding athletes, coaches and sports officials represented by Li Minkuan and Lou Dapeng have emerged. The student track and field team has won several prizes in the national and Beijing college competitions; the women's basketball team won 12 consecutive championships in the Beijing College League and entered the CUBA national quarterfinals in 2005. The school currently has about 82,000 square meters of modern sports venues. As a venue for the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the school gym has successfully completed the four events of Beijing Olympic Games Judo, Taekwondo, Paralympic wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair rugby. The school gymnasium team was awarded "Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Advanced" by the Party Central Committee and State Council. Collective" honorary title.
Today, all faculty and students of the University of Science and Technology Beijing are full of confidence and are taking firm steps towards "building the University of Science and Technology Beijing into an engineering-oriented, coordinated development of engineering, science, management, literature, economics, and law in a moderate scale. , With outstanding characteristics, domestic first-class, internationally renowned high-level research university" forge ahead.