Anhui University of Science and Technology is a multi-disciplinary provincial key university focusing on engineering, science, economics, literature, medicine and management with distinctive characteristics. Founded in 1945, the school is the first engineering college with a history of nearly 60 years in Anhui Province. Originally under the Ministry of Coal Industry. 1July, 1998, the school implemented a school management system based on Anhui provincial management. Now it is one of the five key universities in Anhui Province during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period.
The school is located in Huainan, an important energy base and big city in China, covering an area of 1.400 mu. It is divided into three campuses: Headquarters (Shungeng Middle Road), West Campus (Dongshan Middle Road) and North Campus (Yuannan Road). The school has complete infrastructure and sufficient resources for running schools. The school building covers an area of 560,000 square meters, including a spacious and bright new teaching building, a comprehensive experimental building with advanced equipment, a modern library, the highest 28-story college student apartment in East China, and a 15-story graduate apartment. The library has a collection of 920,000 volumes, and has database mirror sites such as Superstar Digital Library, Wanfang, China Knowledge Network, springerLINK and EBSCO. There are 350,000 kinds of e-books, 70,000 excellent doctoral dissertations and 6,543.8+2,000 kinds of e-journals, which are the information service center of Anhui education books and literature resources guarantee system. The school has 32 research institutes and 56 laboratories (centers), and has modern teaching facilities such as CAI center, CAD center, EDA laboratory, language lab, multimedia classroom and network information center, which provides a good learning environment for the majority of students. The school is an important base for cultivating high-level talents, scientific research and technological innovation in Anhui and its surrounding areas. The school campus is lush with flowers and trees, elegant architecture and beautiful environment. It was named "Garden School" by Anhui provincial government.
The school now has 14 colleges and departments, such as Resources and Environmental Engineering Department, Resources Development and Management Engineering Department, Civil Engineering Department, department of mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering Department, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Chemical Engineering Department, Computer Science and Technology Department, Foreign Languages Department, Mathematical Physics Department, Economic Management and Social Sciences Department, Medical College, Vocational and Technical College, Adult Education College, etc., which are open to national enrollment. The school is one of the first universities in China with the right to award bachelor's degrees and master's degrees. Now it has the right to award doctor's degree, master's degree and master's degree in engineering, and on-the-job personnel have the right to apply for master's degree with the same academic qualifications as graduate students. The school has 4 1 undergraduate majors, 18 master's programs, 2 doctoral programs and 6 fields authorized by master of engineering. The school has 6 provincial key disciplines, 1 provincial key laboratories, 2 provincial key laboratories in universities and 2 provincial key demonstration majors.
The school is one of the larger universities in Anhui Province, with 26,330 students of all kinds. In the autumn of 2003, it began to cooperate with Nanjing Military Region to recruit national defense students. The school has 2079 teaching and administrative staff, including full-time teachers 1060. Among the full-time teachers, there are more than 400 professors, associate professors and other associate higher vocational personnel, forming a group of excellent academic groups composed of top talents at the provincial and ministerial levels, academic leaders and young and middle-aged backbone teachers.
The school insists on discipline construction as the leader and teaching as the center. In the process of running a school, we should adhere to the people-oriented principle, constantly strengthen quality awareness, and cultivate talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty. In the long-term teaching practice, the educational characteristics of "thick foundation, emphasis on practice, innovation and high quality" have been formed, and the campus cultural tradition of "unity and enterprising, rigorous and standardized, knowledgeable and pragmatic, and brave in innovation" has been accumulated. Since its establishment, after several years' training, the once employment rate of school graduates has reached over 97%, ranking among the top universities in Anhui Province.
While deepening the teaching reform, the school vigorously carries out scientific research focusing on applied technology. In the past five years, * * * has completed more than 600 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, more than 600 national and provincial key research projects and basic research and applied development research projects entrusted by enterprises and institutions, and published more than 3,000 monographs and academic papers (departments). In the annual ranking of main scientific and technological indicators of colleges and universities in Anhui Province, the school's scientific and technological assessment indicators are among the best in colleges and universities in Anhui Province. The school was awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Collective of Scientific Research Management in Colleges and Universities" by the Ministry of Education.
The school actively carries out academic exchange activities with foreign countries. We have established good inter-school cooperative relations with relevant universities in the United States, Australia, Poland, Britain, Germany and other countries. Send personnel to visit, give lectures, study for degrees and carry out scientific and technological cooperation in relevant universities in the United States, Australia, Poland, Britain, Germany, Russia, Canada, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. Inviting academicians, experts and scholars from famous universities and research institutes at home and abroad to visit, give lectures and hold celebrity lectures all the year round. Exchanges and cooperation with relevant universities at home and abroad in joint education, personnel training, scientific research and academic activities have been continuously consolidated and developed.
Development is the first priority of the school's development and growth. The new Party Committee of the school will continue to unite and lead the faculty and staff of the school, hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, comprehensively implement Theory of Three Represents, deepen reform, promote innovation, work hard, accelerate development, and strive to build the school into a high-level university with important influence among similar universities in China.