Wuhan University of Technology (formerly Wuhan Institute of Chemical Technology) is located in Wuhan China Optical Valley Center, Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone. It has two campuses, covering an area of 1.527 mu and a building area of 640,000 square meters. The school was founded in June, 1972, formerly known as Hubei Institute of Chemical Technology and Petroleum, under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province. 1980 in March, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was renamed Wuhan Institute of Chemical Technology and managed by the Ministry of Chemical Industry. 1July, 998, with the adjustment of the management system of colleges and universities, the school was placed under Hubei Province, and the system was established by the central and local governments, with Hubei Province as the main management. In February 2006, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was renamed Wuhan Institute of Technology. After more than 30 years of construction, the school has developed from an engineering college that mainly trains chemical engineering and related professionals to a multidisciplinary university with good school conditions, strong strength, high level and distinctive characteristics.
The school now has 15 colleges, 1 department and 1 research and design institute, with 6 disciplines of engineering, science, management, economics, literature and law and 47 undergraduate majors. There are more than 4000 full-time students/kloc-0, including 65438 undergraduates and junior college students. There are nearly 5,000 undergraduate and junior college students in the School of Posts and Telecommunications and Information Engineering, the secondary school of the school.
There are 7 provincial key disciplines, 2 provincial key laboratories,/kloc-0 provincial humanities and social science bases, 9 provincial engineering centers, 24 master's programs and 5 doctoral programs in Hubei province. Seven disciplines, including chemical technology, chemical engineering, material science, biochemistry, chemical process machinery, applied chemistry, material chemistry and physics, were awarded the post-discipline of Chutian scholar distinguished professor by Hubei Province. In addition, it has cooperated with Central South University, Northeastern University, Tianjin University, Institute of Plasma Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences and other universities and research institutes to train doctoral students in mineral processing engineering, chemical process machinery, chemical technology and plasma physics.
The school's fixed assets are 7 1 10,000 yuan, the teaching and experimental room is 350,000 yuan, there are 2 400-meter standard track and field, standard swimming pool 1 piece, and there are 52 basketball, badminton and tennis courts. There are 37 multimedia classrooms (699 1 seat) and 7 language laboratories. There are 33 laboratories of various types and 8,729 teaching and research instruments and equipment, with a total value of1.1.300 million yuan. The library has 925,000 paper books, 6,543,800 physical e-books, 300,000 online e-books and 9 literature databases. It is an excellent university library in Hubei Province and a research-level document collection unit in Hubei Province.
The school has more than 500 faculty members 1.500, including 49 professional and technical personnel above the subtropical high school, including full-time vocational education personnel 1. There are 893 full-time teachers, including 226 associate professors, 0/05 professors and 604 teachers with master's degree or above, accounting for 67.6% of the total number of teachers. Among the teachers, 1 was selected for the National Million Talents Project in the New Century, 1 was selected for the Outstanding Youth Fund of the Ministry of Education, 9 were selected for the New Century High-level Talents Project in Hubei Province, 12 were selected for top-notch talents such as cross-century academic leaders in Hubei Province, 4 were selected for distinguished professor, 1 was selected for Chutian Scholar, and 18 were selected for Hubei Province. Thirty-nine people enjoy the allowance at or above the provincial or ministerial level, two people are elected as famous teachers in Hubei universities, 1 people are elected as the top ten outstanding young people in the seventh session of Hubei province, 15 people are awarded as outstanding teachers at or above the provincial level (among them, 1 people are awarded as national outstanding teachers).
The school has formed a stable research direction in chemical engineering and technology, development and utilization of phosphate rock resources, plasma technology, development and utilization of new materials, new drug synthesis and pharmaceutical technology, research and development of new equipment, network and automation, artificial intelligence technology, talent and human resources development, and economic management. Since the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the school has undertaken 1476 scientific research projects, including 43 national projects, 307 provincial and ministerial projects, and 1 126 enterprise projects, and transformed more than 440 scientific research achievements. The school won 53 scientific and technological achievement awards, including the second prize of national technological invention 1, the second prize of national scientific and technological progress 1, 34 provincial and ministerial natural science awards, invention awards and scientific and technological progress awards, and other provincial and ministerial awards 1. In recent years, more than 4,000 academic papers have been published in academic journals at home and abroad, including more than 430 papers retrieved by SCI, EI, ISTP and ISR. In 2002 and 2003, the number of patent applications ranked fifth among universities in Hubei Province and 1 among provincial universities. In 2002, the number of patent applications ranked 78th among universities in China, and in 2004, the number of patent grants ranked 78th among universities in China. In 2004, the research funding was 34.75 million yuan. The robot soccer team of our school won 5 pairs and 5 groups in the 7th and 8th World Robot Soccer Championships, and won 1 1 pair 1 group in the 9th World Robot Soccer Championships.
The school has established cooperative relations with more than ten foreign universities or scientific research institutions, such as Columbia University Institute of Technology in Missouri, USA. The school has also established a board of directors with more than 100 large and medium-sized enterprises, institutions and local governments.
During the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, the school has carried out a series of reforms in personnel training mode, teaching content and curriculum system, teaching methods and means. On the basis of the full implementation of the credit system, major and minor courses, pilot classes, double-degree and graded teaching have been implemented, and a teaching quality monitoring system with teaching supervision, student information officer, department-level teaching evaluation, students' evaluation of teaching and teaching inspection as the main forms has been established and improved. Further promoted the appropriate graduation mode. The comprehensive quality evaluation system of college students has been fully implemented, and quality education has been steadily promoted; Adapt to the management mode of one school and two districts, further strengthen student education management, speed up the networking process of ideological and political work, establish a relatively perfect student management system, student work information network and student financial assistance service system, and ensure the improvement of education quality. The school has extensively carried out ideological education activities with patriotism as the theme and youth service activities with young volunteers as the carrier, and outstanding college students such as Xu Zhiwei and a number of advanced collectives have emerged.
He has won many awards in the national college students' challenge cup, English, electronic design, mathematical modeling, art design and various sports competitions. The quality of running a school has also been widely recognized by the society. Judging from the enrollment situation in recent years, our school has great advantages in terms of students. Our graduates are generally welcomed by employers, the employment rate is stable at more than 90%, and the admission rate of fresh graduates for postgraduate entrance examination exceeds 12%. Over the past 30 years, * * * has trained more than 30,000 graduates for the country, and many graduates have become the backbone of party and government organs, enterprises and institutions.
The school has been commended more than 40 times at or above the provincial level, including 8 times by the Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, 4 times by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and 3 times by the National Federation of Students. The school was awarded the honorary titles of provincial best civilized unit, advanced school of party building and ideological and political work, national model worker's home, green and red flag unit, garden-style school and safe and civilized campus.