Brief introduction of Huaqing College of Xi University of Architecture and Technology
Huaqing College of Xi University of Architecture and Technology is a full-time undergraduate college founded by Xi University of Architecture and Technology in 2004 with a new mechanism and new model with the approval of the Ministry of Education.
The College is located in Xi 'an, a famous historical and cultural city, at the east end of the South Second Ring Road, in the south section of Happiness Forest Belt in Gaoxindong Development Zone of Xi 'an City, with the famous Wild Goose Pagoda in the Tang Dynasty in the south, the world-famous Chang 'an City Wall in the Ming Dynasty in the north and Chanba Ecological Park in the east, with convenient transportation. The college covers an area of more than 600 mu, and has high-standard teaching buildings, apartment buildings, libraries, catering service centers, indoor and outdoor sports grounds, student activity centers, information network centers, computing centers and modern educational technology centers. The experimental training infrastructure is sound and the instruments and equipment are advanced.
Huaqing College of Xi University of Architecture and Technology is a teaching-oriented undergraduate college with engineering as the mainstay and coordinated development of multiple disciplines, featuring architecture, civil engineering, management and art. The college has six secondary colleges, including architecture college, civil engineering college, economic management college, electromechanical engineering college, material engineering college and art college, with 39 undergraduate majors and 9 functional departments. At present, there are nearly 10,000 full-time students and more than 600 full-time teachers, and teachers with middle and senior titles account for nearly 80% of the total number of teachers. The college actively promotes specialty construction and carries out scientific research to meet social needs. Shaanxi Province has 1 "Professional Comprehensive Reform Pilot" project, innovative experimental area of talent training mode and experimental teaching demonstration center. 2 provincial-level quality courses; There are 4 utility model patents, 9 national scientific research projects and 33 provincial scientific research projects; 23 scientific research awards above the provincial level; 3 1 provincial education reform project; Master (deputy) edited 46 textbooks, and was selected as 3 textbooks in the national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan"; Published 7 academic monographs.
Since its establishment, Huaqing College of Xi University of Architecture and Technology has been adhering to the educational philosophy of "student-oriented, harmonious development and comprehensive implementation of quality education" and the training goal of "understanding theory, strengthening practice and high quality", and has carefully built a comprehensive quality education platform such as Huaqing Lecture Hall, constantly innovating and diligently educating people. Huaqing students won 7 international competition awards, 25 national competition awards and more than 400 provincial competition awards in various competitions at all levels. In 20 10, Populus euphratica, a group dance performed by students majoring in dance in our college, won the "Top Ten Works Award" in China Dance Lotus Award, the top professional dance competition in China, which is also the highest honor that Shaanxi Province has won since the establishment of the National Dance Lotus Award. The architecture students of the 20th12nd session won the Excellence Award in the Garden Scheme Design Competition of the 20th1/xi World Expo, which is the only university student team among the eight winning teams in the world. 20 1 1 students majoring in electronic information science and technology were rated as "the most valuable engineers in the world" by Microsoft. Since the 1990s, only over 3,000 people in the world have won this honor. In 20 12, the documentary "The Mountain Making Clouds" filmed by photography students won two awards of "Best Director" and "Best Photography" at the Shanghai Magnolia TV Festival on 18. In the same year, it won the jury award of the 55th German Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, becoming the first university student in China to win this international award. In 20 13 and 20 14, students majoring in automation won the first prize in two consecutive "Yalong Cup" National Undergraduate Intelligent Building Engineering Practice Skills Competition, which is the only national competition sponsored by the Professional Steering Committee of Building Electricity and Intelligence in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. 20 14 students majoring in mechanical manufacturing and automation won the second prize of the national college students' mechanical innovation competition. 20 16 "Garbage Dump" directed by Zhao, a photography major, won the "Documentary with the Most Social Concern" award in the "Golden Panda" International Documentary Festival, becoming the youngest award-winning director in this international documentary competition. Subsequently, the film won the second prize in the domestic competition of the 4th China International Women's Film Festival. The initial employment rate of graduates has remained above 90% for eight consecutive years, and the online rate of postgraduate entrance examination has remained at around 15%. Graduates enjoy a good reputation in all walks of life.
The College has continuously expanded the depth and breadth of overseas cooperation and exchanges, and has successively established cooperation platforms with universities such as St. Martin's University in the United States, northern arizona university, university of idaho, Northumbria University in the United Kingdom, chaoyang university of technology in Taiwan Province Province, Shixin University in Taiwan, Nankai University of Science and Technology in Taiwan Province Province, etc. In-depth joint training, academic exchanges, short-term training, cultural exchanges in winter and summer vacations and other projects have been carried out, drawing on advanced experience in running schools and broadening the international horizons of teachers and students.