Established in 1960, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University is a municipal ordinary college of higher learning that is known for its engineering disciplines and manages economics, arts, sciences and arts in a coordinated development of multiple disciplines.
For more than 50 years, the school started from adult education, to hold full-time higher vocational education, and then upgraded to a general undergraduate university, until it was listed as a pilot unit for professional degree graduate training in the "Service National Special Needs Talent Training Project" by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. , Has embarked on a road of characteristic development of technology application-oriented universities. In the course of running a school, the school has always adhered to the socialist direction of running a school, fulfilling the fundamental task of Lide, adhering to the positioning of "professional higher education", adhering to the combination of education and economic society, education and production and labor, and following the laws of education. Strengthen the construction of connotation, assume social responsibility, and send more than 110,000 technical and applied talents at all levels, represented by national labor model and outstanding inventor Bao Qifan, Li Bin, etc., for the modernization of Shanghai. The school's achievements have been hailed as the cradle of China's vocational education benchmark and model worker training. In 2017, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission organized a review and evaluation of the school's undergraduate teaching work, which fully affirmed the school's orientation and school performance.
Basic information
The school consists of a main campus and several branch campuses, covering a total area of nearly 800 acres. The main campus is located on Jinhai Road, Pudong, Shanghai, with a construction area of nearly 300,000 square meters, including more than 40,000 square meters of experimental training center and more than 20,000 square meters of engineering training center. It has 45 standard laboratories, an experimental room area of 65,000 square meters, a total fixed asset value of 512 million yuan in teaching and research equipment, a collection of more than 1.42 million paper books, more than 1.57 million e-books, and complete computer network services System. The school implements a school (academy) secondary management system, and has a department of engineering (under the School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Control Engineering, the School of Computer and Information Engineering, and the School of Environmental and Material Engineering), the Department of Arts and Sciences (the School of Science, the School of Foreign Languages, and the Public Department of Relations, General Education Center), School of Economics and Management, School of Applied Art and Design, Higher Vocational and Technical (International) School, School of International Exchange, School of Marxism, Department of Physical Education, Engineering Training Center, Art Education Center, School of Continuing Education 12 second-level teaching and research units including the Electronic Waste Research Center. The school takes undergraduate education as the main body, develops high-level international vocational education, holds distinctive professional degree postgraduate education and international student education, and undertakes a certain scale of continuing education. There are 12,450 full-time undergraduate and junior college students (9,978 undergraduates and 2,472 junior college students), 233 professional master's students, and more than 8,500 adult education students.
Subject Major
The school gives priority to the development of leading disciplines, develops non-engineering disciplines in accordance with the idea of "relying on engineering, serving engineering, and leading engineering", and builds a discipline system that has expertise in engineering and coordinated development of multidisciplinary management, economics, science and art. The subject of "Materials Science and Engineering" participates in the construction of category IV peak disciplines in Shanghai universities, the subject of "Environmental Science and Engineering (Resource Cycle Science and Engineering)" has been approved to be included in the construction of category II plateau disciplines in Shanghai universities, and the "thermal functional materials laboratory" is actively declared Shanghai Key Laboratory. The school has 15 school-level key disciplines and cultivated disciplines. The support coverage rate of discipline construction for master's cultivation sites reaches 100%, the support coverage rate for undergraduate majors reaches 100%, and the support coverage rate for undergraduate major construction reaches 100%.
The school has 6 disciplines, including engineering, management, economics, literature, science, and art, and 22 professional categories. It has 43 undergraduate majors, 31 higher vocational majors, and 1 master's degree. The school has 3 national-level characteristic majors, 2 majors under the Ministry of Education's Excellent Engineer Training Program, 1 pilot program for the first batch of undergraduate major comprehensive reforms in local colleges and universities "Undergraduate Teaching Project" by the Ministry of Education, and 9 applied undergraduate pilot majors for universities in Shanghai , Shanghai has 8 undergraduate education highland construction projects, and 2 all-English construction majors. The school has 4 majors for middle school, 6 majors for middle and high school, and 1 major for higher school.
Personnel training
The school insists on cultivating people by virtue, cultivates high-tech, high-skilled applied talents who master vocational skills, advocates professional credit, and demonstrates professional characteristics, and establishes and improves a full-staff, full-process, all-round education system and education and teaching quality assurance system. Continue to promote education and teaching reform and connotation construction to ensure the steady improvement of the quality of talent training.
The school promotes the fine tradition of combining work with learning and industry-academic cooperation, closes to academics, closes to industry, close to employment, strengthens professional construction demonstration and revision of talent training plans, and implements a full credit system and academic tutorial system. The school actively explores and innovates a diversified talent training model, and enhances students’ engineering practice ability through the exploration of the “engineering introduction” engineering master’s training model, the outstanding engineer education training plan, the CDIO engineering education reform, and the localized practice of the German FH education model. Career adaptability and career development ability. Relying on the pilot training model of high-level integration, middle-level integration, and high-level integration, through the integrated design of training plans, we will expand the development channels for application-oriented talents and strive to build a through-and-connect training system for application-oriented talents. In recent years, the employment rate of school graduates has remained above 98%, students' entrepreneurial ability has continued to improve, and the quality of graduates has been affirmed by employers.
The school has 3 national quality courses, 25 Shanghai quality courses, 14 municipal teaching teams in Shanghai universities, 75 key courses of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, 8 demonstrative English courses in Shanghai universities, and 3 high-quality online courses in Shanghai universities , 20 key undergraduate teaching reform projects in Shanghai universities. In the past three years, students have participated in 176 provincial and ministerial level and above various discipline skill competitions, and won a total of 781 awards, including 352 national awards. On average, more than 1,000 students participate in city-level and school-level college student innovation projects each year.
Faculty
The school vigorously implements the strategy of “strengthening the school with talents”, centering on the construction of a double-qualified team, focusing on the construction of discipline leaders and innovative teams, and aiming to improve the comprehensive quality and innovation capabilities of teachers, and build a team with high quality, strong skills, Energetic, rationally structured and innovative faculty. There are 1,070 faculty members, including 760 full-time teachers, more than 360 teachers with senior professional titles, more than 85% of teachers with a master's degree or more, and more than 30% of teachers with business experience. Among the faculty members, there are 2 people who are entitled to special government allowances from the State Council, 1 person is selected for the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, 4 are distinguished professors of Oriental Scholars, 4 are selected for the Pujiang Project, 5 are from Shuguang, and 4 are famous teachers in Shanghai universities. There are 2 model teachers in Shanghai.
Technology Service
The school pays attention to feeding back teaching with scientific research, actively develops scientific research that meets the needs of economic and social development and the school's discipline and professional layout and direction, and strengthens applied research and development. In the long-term scientific research practice, the school has formed a strong scientific research team, undertook more than 100 national and provincial (ministerial) level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the 863 Program, and produced nearly 100 scientific and technological achievements. There has been a significant increase in various types of school research funding, the number of patent applications has continued to increase, and the quality has continued to improve.
The school has established a number of knowledge service teams such as mechatronics, measurement and control and information technology, electronic waste and environmental engineering materials, and engineering technology applications, as well as the Suguang Research Institute composed of more than 300 young teachers with high academic qualifications, and relying on this, Consolidate research directions, enhance cooperation and cross-cutting, promote the transformation of results, and provide professional technical services for society and enterprises. The school has established a technology transfer center to be responsible for the promotion and transformation of the school's scientific and technological achievements.
The school has built the Shanghai E-waste Resource Recycling Collaborative Innovation Center and the Seven Cube Science and Technology Park with the theme of science and technology, cultural creativity and intelligent manufacturing. There are a number of technology transfer workstations or production-university-research workstations established in the Yangtze River Delta region, and extensive cooperative relations have been established with industry enterprises to provide professional expertise in the fields of electronics and automatic control, mechatronics, computer and information technology, environmental engineering and new materials. Technical services.
Foreign exchanges and cooperation
Centering on the school's positioning and talent training goals, the school vigorously implements an international strategy. In recent years, the school has successively carried out stable exchanges and cooperation with 123 universities and institutions in 33 countries and regions overseas. Through Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, the school introduces and integrates activities and projects such as international student education, teacher overseas visits, student overseas projects, overseas famous teachers, foreign (overseas) professional qualification certificate introduction, engineering education certification, academic exchanges, etc. Overseas education concepts, school-running experience and teaching resources, implement multi-level, wide-ranging, and all-round international exchanges and cooperation. The school has carried out in-depth cooperation in the field of engineering education with universities of applied sciences in Germany, Sweden, Finland and other European countries. It has cooperated with TAFE Education Group in Queensland, Australia to organize Queensland College, and it has cooperated with Broward College in the United States to organize two Sino-foreign cooperative education projects. , Cooperated with Hong Kong Monita International Group to establish Monita Academy to jointly develop talent training activities. The “Cross-Strait Applied (Technical and Vocational) Higher Education Academic Seminar” held in turn with Beijing Union University, Shenzhen Vocational and Technical College and Taipei University of Technology and other universities on both sides of the strait has a great influence in the field of cross-strait vocational education.
The school is a "National Advanced Unit of Vocational Education", a member of the "China University of Applied Technology Alliance", a vice-chairman unit of the "Shanghai Vocational Education Association", and a standing director unit of the "Shanghai Jinqiao Export Processing Zone Enterprise Association". The school is the "Ministry of Education Teacher Training Base for Higher Vocational Colleges", "National Vocational Education Teacher Training Key Construction Base", "Shanghai Vocational Education Teacher Training Base", and "Shanghai "Double Name Project" Training Base". Since 2005, it has been continuously evaluated as "Shanghai Civilized Unit" and won the honorary titles of "National Worker Pioneer", "Shanghai Safety Unit", "Shanghai Advanced Unit for Recruitment Work", and "Shanghai Garden Unit".
Facing the future, the school will continue to carry forward the excellent school-running traditions and the school motto of “enjoy students, morals, and skills”, actively adapt to the new requirements of the country and Shanghai’s economic and social development, actively integrate innovation-driven development and economic transformation and upgrading, and highlight the emancipation of minds. Guided by ideas, we will give more prominence to the orientation and demand orientation of running a school, to highlight the characteristics and quality improvement, to focus more on the comprehensive reform of education and the management of schools according to law, and to strive to achieve the goal of a high-level, multidisciplinary university of applied technology.