The school is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province. It is a comprehensive research-oriented national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). Selected into "Strong Foundation Plan", "11Plan", Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan, Excellent Doctor Education and Training Plan, Hubei Province 20 1 1 Plan, National College Students' Innovative Experiment Plan, National College Students' Innovative Country Building High-level University Postgraduate Plan, and National New Engineering Research and Research. It is an independent auditing unit authorized by the degree, a national demonstration university for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, a first-class network security college construction demonstration project university, a scholarship receiving institution for overseas students in China, and a demonstration base for studying in China by the Ministry of Education. It is a member of China-Europe Engineering Education Platform, a member of the "Double First-class" medical construction alliance, and a governing unit of China Artificial Intelligence Education Association.
School history
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
1952165438+10 In October, the Culture and Education Committee under the Central South Administrative Committee held a meeting on higher education planning, and decided to build three new engineering colleges in Wuhan-Huazhong Institute of Machinery, Central South Institute of Electric Power and Central South Institute of Water Conservancy.
1953 1 month, the Ministry of Education of Central South Management Committee issued a document, and the planning committee for the joint construction of the three hospitals was formally established. Wuhan University supports the construction of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, with Professor Cha Qian of Wuhan University as the chairman.
1953 in may, the Ministry of higher education of the people's Republic of China decided to merge Huazhong institute of machinery and zhongnan institute of electric power, which are under construction, into one school and cancel the establishment of zhongnan institute of electric power.
On September 1953, 1 1, the school building project broke ground at the southern foot of Yujiashan, Wuchang. In the same year, the inaugural meeting and opening ceremony of Huazhong Institute of Technology was held in Wuchang.
In mid-August, 1954, the teachers and students of the whole school joined hands with Yujiashan in Wuchang to complete the centralized relocation work; 1955, the State Council appointed Professor Cha Qian as the first president of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
1955 September, majoring in automobile, Changchun Institute of Automobile and Tractor Engineering.
1960, recognized as a national key institution of higher learning. Graduate students are admitted from 196 1.
From 1966 to 1976, due to the efforts of Liu Kunshan, the captain of the military propaganda team, and Zhu, the vice president, three "noes" have been realized: the main leaders of the school will not change, the teaching staff will not leave, the research and teaching equipment will not be abused, and teachers and cadres will suffer less.
197 1 Wuhan institute of machinery was closed, and some majors and more than 300 faculty members were merged into Huazhong institute of technology.
1988 65438+ 10 month, renamed Huazhong university of science and technology.
/kloc-0 successfully passed the pre-examination of "2 1 1 project" in 1995 and became the key construction unit of "2 1 1 project".
In February 2000, the School of Cadre Management of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Wuhan Staff University of Science and Technology) was merged into Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
On May 26th, 2000, the former Tongji Medical University, Wuhan Institute of Urban Construction and Huazhong University of Science and Technology merged to form Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
200 1 Enter the ranks of key universities under the national "985 Project"; The first batch was approved to pilot the National Model Software Institute.
In February 2022, Huazhong University of Science and Technology was selected as the second round of national "double-first-class" construction universities.
competence
As of 202 1 and 65438+February, there were more than 3700 full-time teachers, including professors 1400 and associate professors 1400. Among the teachers, there are 20 academicians, chief scientist of "973 Program" 15, chief scientist of major scientific research projects, chief scientist of national key R&D projects1KLOC-0/person, 9 national famous teachers and 43 candidates for the National Thousand Talents Program. Innovation Research Group of National Natural Science Foundation 1 1, Innovation Team of Ministry of Education 19.
discipline construction
School official website 202 1 shows that Huazhong university of science and technology has 50 departments, including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, art, etc. 10, and undergraduate majors 109. There are 8 "double-first-class" construction disciplines, 7 national key disciplines with first-class disciplines, 2 disciplines 15 national key disciplines (three levels of internal medicine and surgical credits), 7 national key disciplines (training), 54 majors selected as national first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites, and 15 majors selected as provincial first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites.
Characteristic major
"Double first-class" construction disciplines: mechanical engineering, optical engineering, material science and engineering, power engineering and engineering thermophysics, electrical engineering, computer science and technology, basic medicine, public health and preventive medicine.
First-class discipline National key disciplines: mechanical engineering, optical engineering, materials science and engineering, power engineering and engineering thermophysics, electrical engineering, control science and engineering, biomedical engineering.
Two national key disciplines: western economics, higher education, biophysics, microelectronics and solid-state electronics, computer system structure, water conservancy and hydropower engineering, pathology and pathophysiology, internal medicine (cardiovascular diseases), internal medicine (hematological diseases), internal medicine (respiratory diseases), surgery (general surgery), surgery (urology), obstetrics and gynecology, anesthesiology, labor hygiene and environmental sanitation.
National key training disciplines: communication and information system, internal medicine (infectious diseases), imaging medicine and nuclear medicine, child health care and maternal and child health care, basic integration of Chinese and western medicine, pharmacology, management science and engineering.
Key disciplines in Hubei Province: Marxist theory, theoretical economics, applied economics, sociology, China language and literature, foreign language and literature, physics, chemistry, design, biology, mechanics, electronic science and technology, information and communication engineering, computer science and technology, architecture, urban and rural planning, civil engineering, ship and ocean engineering, environmental science and engineering, basic medicine, philosophy, pharmacy and law.
National first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites: mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, industrial engineering, material forming and control engineering, ship and ocean engineering, energy and power engineering, electrical engineering and automation, electronic information engineering, photoelectric information science and engineering, integrated circuit design and integration system, automation, computer science and technology, information security, civil engineering, urban and rural planning, water supply and drainage science and engineering, biomedical engineering, clinical medicine, preventive medicine, Pharmacy, journalism, English, economics, marketing, public enterprise management, mathematics and applied mathematics, physics, biotechnology, philosophy, finance, law, sociology, translation, radio and television, information and computing science, chemistry, biological science, engineering mechanics, material science and engineering, new energy science and engineering, electronic science and technology, international economy and trade, etc.
Construction points of provincial first-class undergraduate majors: material science and engineering, nuclear engineering and technology, landscape architecture, stomatology, medical laboratory technology, nursing, medical experimental technology, radio and television science, philosophy, finance and applied chemistry.
academic research
On June 5438+ 10, 2022, the school official website showed that Huazhong university of science and technology has 1 national research centers and 2 national major scientific and technological infrastructures. It also has 1 national manufacturing innovation center, 4 national key laboratories, 6 national engineering (technology) research centers, 1 national engineering laboratories, 2 national professional laboratories, 1 national humanities and social science bases, 8 national research institutions of other categories, and 10 provincial and ministerial construction. There are 25 international cooperative research bases and one international research center. There are 9 innovative research groups under the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 19 innovation team under the Ministry of Education.
20 16-20 18, Huazhong university of science and technology won the national science and technology award 12, and the Ministry of education won 8 science and technology awards.
On June 1 2022, at the International High Performance Computing Conference held in Hamburg, Germany, DepGraph, a graphics computer developed by the graphics computing team of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, once again broke the world record of graphics computing performance and topped the list of the most authoritative graphics computing in the world. This is the first time in the world that the performance of a single computer exceeds that of a supercomputer.
Cooperation and communication
By February 2022, Huazhong University of Science and Technology had carried out friendly cooperation with more than 300 universities and institutions in 4/kloc-0 countries and regions in the world. The College of Engineering Science is one of the first four international demonstration colleges in China, and the China-Europe Institute of Clean and Renewable Energy is listed as one of the 40 typical cases of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Europe. The school is the Chinese lead unit of the Industry-University-Research Alliance for Clean Coal Technology of the Sino-US Joint Research Center for Clean Energy, and the "China-Europe Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy" jointly sponsored by China and the European Union. In recent years, more than 4,000 international students from five continents 150 countries come to our school every year for degree, further study, training or exchange. Every year, more than 1500 students go to famous universities in Europe, America and Australia for exchange, internship or degree study. The school cooperated with universities in the United States, New Zealand, Brazil and other countries to build three Confucius Institutes. Huazhong University of Science and Technology attended the general meeting of all members of the International Applied Science and Technology Development Cooperation Network. China University of Science and Technology participated in a series of activities of the Sino-Russian Alliance of Engineering Universities. Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Global Energy Internet Research Institute signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Huazhong University of Science and Technology joined the Global Alliance of Energy Internet Universities. Huazhong University of Science and Technology joined 16 National Science and Technology Alliance of Engineering University. Huazhong University of Science and Technology joined the National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Alliance.
The "985 Project" refers to the major decision made by the Chinese Production Party, People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council at the turn of the century to build a world-class university.
1on may 4th, 998, Jiang Zemin, then president, declared to the whole society on behalf of the China * * * production party, the China people * * and the central people's government at the 0/00th anniversary celebration meeting of Peking University/kloc: "In order to realize modernization, China should have a number of world-class universities."
"2 1 1" project refers to the construction project of about 100 colleges and universities and a number of key disciplines facing 2 1 century. It was officially launched on 1995 1 1 with the approval of the State Council.
"2 1 1 Project" is a key construction work in the field of higher education initiated by the state since the founding of New China. This is an important measure taken by the China government to implement the strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education", and it is also an important decision made by the Chinese nation to develop higher education in the face of the domestic and international situation at the turn of the century.
The full name of "double first-class" is a world-class university and a world-class discipline. It is an important strategic decision made by the Central Committee and the State Council, and another national strategy in the field of higher education in China after the "2 1 1 Project" and the "985 Project", which is conducive to enhancing the comprehensive strength and international competitiveness of China's higher education, achieving the goal of "two hundred years" and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.