Tsinghua University International Engineering Project Research Institute was founded at the end of 1999. With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, it was established to meet the challenges of China's foreign trade and economic development and its accession to the WTO. Its predecessor was Tsinghua University Engineering Construction Management and Research Training Center, which was established in 1995. At that time, its main task was to train management talents for the World Bank loan project in China.
Tsinghua University International Engineering Project Research Institute relies on the Department of Construction and Management of Tsinghua University Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering. Its establishment and development have been strongly supported by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Finance, the World Bank, FIDIC and other institutions. Now it has established good relations with many world-renowned teaching and research institutions such as MIT, University of Pennsylvania, University of Tokyo, University of Reading and National Road and Bridge University.
At present, Tsinghua University International Project Management Research Institute has developed into a professional training and consulting institution with project management as its main business content. The college now has three business departments: training department, consulting department and research department. Its objectives are:
(1) Cultivate export-oriented and compound senior talents who are competent for international engineering projects and consulting;
(2) Grasp the current situation of China's engineering construction project management, track the frontier issues and technologies of international engineering construction project management and investment management, research and develop relevant management modes, knowledge systems, management technologies, management standards and industrial policies suitable for China's national conditions, and popularize the research results;
(3) On the basis of the full-time research team of the Institute and the teachers, postdocs, doctors and graduate students of the Department of Construction Management of Tsinghua University, combined with outstanding experts in related fields at home and abroad, participate in project definition, project evaluation, project decision-making, project management, asset management, operation management and other related consulting work, and directly contribute to the national economic construction.