Shanghai Electric Power University

Shanghai Electric Power University is a full-time general institution of higher learning jointly established by the Central Government and Shanghai Municipality and focusing on Shanghai Administration. The school was founded in 1951 and was upgraded to an undergraduate degree in January 1985 and was renamed Shanghai Electric Power University. In December 2018, it was renamed Shanghai Electric Power University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The school has two campuses in Yangpu and Pudong, with more than 12,000 full-time students and more than 1,000 faculty members.

The school's motto is "patriotism, diligence, pragmatism, and forge ahead". The school adheres to the school policy of "power, application, and frontline", and establishes the school philosophy of "pragmatic and practical, rational and far-reaching". The school insists on deepening reforms and speeding up connotation construction. The scale, level, quality and international influence of the school have been steadily improved, and it has gradually developed into a work-oriented discipline with a combination of science, management, economics, literature and other disciplines. The main disciplines have distinctive characteristics of energy and electricity. Colleges and universities with coordinated development of multiple disciplines.

School history

The school was founded in 1951 and has long been under the management of the national electric power department. In 2000, it was managed locally. The school has gone through the development and evolution of Shanghai Electric Power School, Shanghai Power School, Shanghai Electric Power School, Shanghai Electric Power College, and Shanghai Electric Power University. It started to run undergraduate level in 1985, master level in 2006, and became a doctorate award in 2018. The unit has formed a complete degree authorization system for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. In 2018, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was renamed Shanghai Electric Power University. In 2019, our school was approved as a pilot unit for the construction of high-level local application-oriented universities in Shanghai, supporting our school to focus on clean and safe power generation, smart grid, and smart energy management with the characteristics of energy and power, and to carry out high-level local applications as a whole Pilot construction of high-level universities.

Faculty

The school currently has more than 1,100 faculty members, including more than 790 full-time teachers. Among the full-time teachers, the proportion of those with a doctoral degree is 51.26%. At present, there are 1 person selected into the National New Century Talent Project, 1 National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth, 1 National Outstanding Teacher, 1 National Outstanding Backbone Teacher Title; 1 Outstanding Talent Award Program of the Ministry of Education, and New Century Outstanding by the Ministry of Education There are 3 talent support programs; 1 Shanghai Leading Talent, 1 Shanghai Outstanding Subject Leader, 3 Shanghai Famous Teachers, and 14 Shanghai "Oriental Scholars" ("Young Oriental Scholars") distinguished professors. In addition, there are 7 special allowances from the national government, 10 Shanghai Baosteel Excellent Teachers Award, and 28 Shanghai Education Talents Award.

Subjects and Teaching

The school has School of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, School of Automation Engineering, School of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, School of Economics and Management, School of Mathematics and Science, School of Foreign Languages, School of Continuing Education ( Including Shanghai New Energy Talent Technology Education Exchange Center), Marxism College, Sports College, and Humanities and Arts College, there are 13 second-level departments and 32 undergraduate majors.

The school has 3 national-level characteristic majors, 1 pilot major for comprehensive professional reform of the Ministry of Education, and 2 pilot majors for comprehensive professional reform in Shanghai. It has 1 Shanghai IV Peak Discipline, 1 Plateau Discipline, 1 Shanghai First-Class Discipline, 6 Shanghai Key Disciplines, and 5 Municipal Education Commission Key Disciplines. At present, there are 6 first-level disciplines in power engineering and engineering thermophysics, electrical engineering, chemical engineering and technology, physics, information and communication engineering, control science and engineering, and power engineering, electrical engineering, control engineering, engineering management, and computer There are 5 master's degree authorization sites including technology, which independently recruit and train master's students. In 2018, our school was approved as a doctoral degree-granting unit, and the electrical engineering discipline was approved as a doctoral degree authorization point.

In 2006, the school passed the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education with an excellent grade. He has won 2 National Teaching Achievement Awards. In the past two Shanghai Teaching Achievement Awards, he has won 19 awards, including 1 special prize and 11 first prizes. In 2010, it became the first batch of pilot colleges for the "Excellent Engineer Training Program" of the Ministry of Education. There are currently 5 undergraduate and 2 master's pilot majors. In 2017, the major of "Electrical Engineering and Automation" was jointly certified by the Higher Education Teaching Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Education and the China Engineering Education Professional Certification Association. Phalanx". In 2018, it was approved for 1 Shanghai "First-class Undergraduate" construction leading plan project, 9 "Applied Undergraduate" pilot majors, and 2 "Chinese-based undergraduate" pilot majors. There are 32 Shanghai quality courses, 28 national planning textbooks and Shanghai excellent textbooks, and 4 Shanghai teaching teams. The school has 2 national practice (experimental) bases (centers), 3 provincial and ministerial experimental demonstration bases (centers), 5 provincial and ministerial off-campus practice (practice) bases, and more than 100 off-campus practice bases. In 2018, the school accepted the review and evaluation of the undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education.

Scientific research

The school always regards scientific and technological innovation as the source and motivation to promote the construction of high-level universities, adheres to serving the national strategy, industry needs and local social and economic development as the traction, and conducts scientific research and technological research in basic research, engineering applications, and industry-university-research cooperation. . The school has a national university science and technology park, a national technology transfer center and 11 scientific research platforms above the provincial and ministerial level. The school has a national engineering practice education center and an innovation base for college students.

The school actively serves the national energy and power development strategy and Shanghai's strategy of building a global influential technology innovation center. It has constructed the Shanghai Smart Grid Technology Research Collaborative Innovation Center, the Shanghai New Energy Talent Technology Education Exchange Center, the Shanghai Electric Power Security Technology Research Center and The "Three Centers and One Think Tank" composed of the "Belt and Road" energy and power management and development strategy research think tanks established the Shanghai Energy and Power Science and Technology Innovation Sub-center to fully serve the development of localities and industries.

In recent years, the school’s comprehensive scientific research strength has increased significantly, and the total scientific research funding has increased significantly. It has hosted and participated in nearly a thousand scientific research projects, including the national "973" and "863" projects, the national key research and development plan, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. , National Social Science Fund Project, New Century Excellent Talent Funding Program of the Ministry of Education, Major (Key) Science and Technology Research Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project, Shanghai Outstanding Subject Leader Program, Youth Science and Technology Venus Program, There are more than 500 high-level scientific research projects and talent training projects such as Pujiang Talent Plan, Dawn Plan, Morning Plan, Sunshine Plan, etc.; won 58 provincial and ministerial level and above science and technology awards, including 3 national awards.

The school has also achieved vigorous development in the industrialization of scientific research results. Many achievements have achieved significant economic and social benefits in production. Many scientific research results have won awards and have many invention patents and utility model patents with independent intellectual property rights. The number of scientific and technological papers indexed by authoritative search institutions has continued to rise, and many papers have been selected as ESI papers.

International cooperation

The school actively expanded international exchanges and cooperation and achieved significant results. The school signed a cooperation agreement with the Asian Development Bank to jointly promote the development of smart grids in Asia. The school proposed to jointly establish the "ADEPT International Electric Power University Alliance" with 10 famous foreign universities, and was elected as the permanent chairman unit. University of Technology, Curtin University of Technology in Australia, National University of Malaysia and other universities have signed cooperation agreements. In October 2018, the “Belt and Road Power University Alliance” and the “Belt and Road Power Industry, University and Research Alliance” were established in October 2018, with the University of Batangas in the Philippines, the University of Surangalari in Thailand, Shanghai Electric Power Construction Co., Ltd., and State Grid Holding Brazil CPFL Company Waiting for more than 20 foreign universities and companies featuring electric power to sign a memorandum of inter-university exchange and cooperation to discuss international exchanges and cooperation between the energy and power industry and universities. The school has established friendly and mutually beneficial exchange relations with many institutions in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries, and signed inter-school exchanges and cooperation in running schools. Substantive cooperation agreements; long-term and short-term foreign cultural and educational experts and scientific and technological experts are invited to the school every year as honorary professors and overseas famous teachers to conduct lectures and cooperative research; jointly hold electrical engineering undergraduate cooperative education projects with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom; Actively promote summer study tours, overseas internships, double master degree and other students' overseas study and internship programs, and the number of state-sponsored students studying abroad is increasing. The school currently has nearly 100 long-term international students from Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, Congo (Brazzaville), Cameroon, Australia and other countries.

The school actively connects with the "One Belt One Road" national strategy and combines its own characteristics to establish the "One Belt One Road" Energy and Power International Talent Training Base and the "One Belt and One Road Energy and Power Overseas Job Training Base". The school established the "China-Portuguese Cultural Exchange Center" to build a bridge for cultural exchanges between the school's teachers and students and the Portuguese-speaking countries. The school organized the "Belt and Road Energy and Power International Advanced Seminar" and energy and power company training courses, and energy and power companies along the Belt and Road have gained a high reputation.

Graduate employment

The employment rate and employment quality of school graduates have always maintained a high level. Under the employment mechanism of "two-way choice and independent job selection", the school has established the employment policy of "employment-oriented, school linkage, consolidation of power, expansion of vertical and horizontal, equal emphasis on both forms, and ensuring five rates". Through the full-course career development education, personalized employment guidance and standardized employment services, it provides a reliable guarantee for the career development of graduates. At the same time, with the extensive alumni network and the good cooperative relationship established with industry employers over the years, the school has provided a large number of employment opportunities for graduates by holding various job fairs such as the National Electric Power Talent Recruitment Conference (Shanghai Station). In recent years, the employment rate of undergraduate graduates has remained above 97%, and the employment rate of graduate students is 100%. The school is committed to industry cooperation and implemented the "3+1 order model" training model, which has significantly increased the employment rate in the industry.

Development goals

In June 2018, the school held the fourth party member congress and determined the school’s "three-step" mid- to long-term development goal: by 2020, to build a high-level applied technology university with distinctive energy and power characteristics, and the school’s comprehensive strength , The quality of running a school has been significantly improved; by 2025, a high-level applied research university with distinctive energy and power characteristics will be built. Talent training, scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation, and international exchange and cooperation capabilities have been significantly enhanced. The construction of doctoral degree authorization units has begun to show results, superior disciplines have become more prominent, major comparability indicators have reached a new level, and the ability to serve national strategies has become more prominent , The overall strength of running the school has been improved; by 2035, the superior disciplines will enter the ranks of first-class disciplines and become a well-known local high-level university in China.

Entering the new era, the school will take the implementation of the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China as the main line, take morality as the foundation, comprehensively strengthen the party’s leadership, and solidly promote the comprehensive reform. With the joint efforts of the company, we will take a new starting point, plan new development, and achieve a new leap.