Introduction: Foshan Institute of Science and Technology is located in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, a city with profound historical and cultural heritage and strong economic and social development. It is a full-time undergraduate university officially approved by the state. The history of the school can be traced back to 1958, which founded Foshan Normal College and Foshan Branch of South China Agricultural College. 65438+1In March 1995, the State Education Commission approved the merger of Foshan University and Foshan College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry to form Foshan College of Science and Technology. In 2005, with the approval of Guangdong Provincial People's Government, Foshan Staff Medical College and Foshan Education College merged into Foshan Institute of Science and Technology. In 2002, the school successfully passed the undergraduate teaching qualification assessment organized by the Ministry of Education, and in 2007, it passed the undergraduate teaching level assessment organized by the Ministry of Education with excellent results. 20 13 was approved as a master's degree awarding unit by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee in July, and three disciplines, namely mechanical engineering, veterinary medicine and civil engineering, became the first batch of first-class disciplines authorized by our university. Graduate students were officially enrolled in 20 14. The school is divided into headquarters, North Campus, He Bin Road and Tongji West Road, with an area of 22 10.7 mu and a building area of 3,485,438+00,000 square meters. Up to now, 65,438+200,000 professionals have been trained for local economic and social development. There are 13 secondary colleges: College of Arts, College of Politics and Law, College of Science, College of Electromechanical Engineering, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, College of Ceramic (Jewelry) Art and Design, College of Environment and Civil Architecture, College of Life Sciences, school of economics and management, Medical College, College of Education Science, College of Physical Education, College of Food and Horticulture. There are 54 undergraduate majors, covering ten disciplines, such as economy, law, education, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and art. The school has a staff of 1453, including 808 full-time teachers. Among the school's professional and technical personnel, there are 152 people with positive senior titles and 394 people with deputy senior titles. There are 2 19 teachers with doctoral degrees and 623 teachers with master's degrees. In addition, world-renowned scientists Dr. Yang Zhenning and Dr. Ding Zhaozhong and well-known domestic experts and scholars were invited as honorary professors. The school has ordinary full-time students 144 16, and 6774 adult education students. The school adheres to the school-running philosophy of "education-oriented, quality-oriented, characteristic-oriented", "teaching is the foundation of the school, scientific research is the road to strengthening the school, and talents are the key to development", and insists on meeting the needs of local talents as the fundamental task, focusing on undergraduate teaching, focusing on the construction of disciplines and specialties, promoting teaching with scientific research, vigorously carrying out scientific research and discipline construction, actively exploring innovative talent training modes, and cultivating students with leading consciousness, entrepreneurial spirit and practical ability. The school won the second prize of national teaching achievement1; Won the 2 1 provincial teaching achievement award; There are 4 provincial excellent open courses, 2 excellent courses and 7 key courses. It has five provincial-level professional construction sites, including animal medicine, civil engineering and mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, international economy and trade, and animal science. Three provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, such as electromechanical technology center, biological basic teaching center and chemical experimental teaching center; There are 1 provincial innovative experimental zones for talent training mode, 1 national off-campus practice teaching bases for college students and 4 provincial off-campus practice teaching bases for college students. The school closely combined with the needs of local economic and social development to carry out scientific research and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and achieved remarkable results. In 2009-20 13, the school undertook 34 national projects, including 3 projects of National Natural Science Foundation and 3 projects of National Social Science Foundation. Undertake 140 provincial and ministerial projects; There are 336 municipal and departmental projects, 362 horizontal projects 1362 and 5 scientific research achievements 15 that have passed the appraisal of provincial scientific and technological achievements, including 8 domestic advanced projects and 7 domestic leading projects. Won 59 science and technology awards at or above the municipal level, including 4 Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Awards and1kloc-0/Guangdong Agricultural Technology Promotion Awards. Obtained 63 patents and registered 3 computer software copyrights. The scientific research funds of the school have increased rapidly year by year, with a total of 328 million yuan from 2008 to 20 12. According to the statistics of scientific research funds of universities in Guangdong Province published by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, our school ranks tenth with 20 1 1 and 20 12. The school actively promotes the cooperation with local governments and enterprises in Industry-University-Research, and promotes the "school (bureau/town) linkage project". It has successively signed strategic cooperation agreements with government departments and industries such as Gaoming District, Shunde District, Foshan Science and Technology Bureau, Qingyuan Agriculture Bureau, etc. 1 1, and also built 88 Industry-University-Research bases, 2 joint laboratories and 655438 engineering technology centers with enterprises. The school * * * has 49 people stationed in enterprises as "Guangdong Enterprise Science and Technology Commissioners", and 3 scientific research teams and 15 people stationed in rural areas as "Guangdong Rural Science and Technology Commissioners" to provide technical support for local industrial development. At present, the school has two key disciplines with Guangdong characteristics, namely, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation. The research base of Guangdong Humanities and Social Sciences 1 is Guangdong Guangfu Cultural Research Base, and the key laboratory of Guangdong University 1, as well as three Guangdong University Technology Development Centers, namely, Modern Manufacturing Equipment Engineering Technology Development Center, Civil Engineering Technology Development Center and Animal Disease Diagnosis and Prevention Technology Center. The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation, and has established friendly inter-school relations with many foreign universities such as Britain, the United States, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Mozambique and Hong Kong, and carried out long-term academic exchanges, scientific research cooperation and joint training of graduate students. Carry out various forms of student exchange activities with famous universities outside Australia, such as Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; It has promoted the training of school talents and the improvement of the overall academic level. In recent years, hundreds of graduates from our school have gone abroad to study for degrees, and nearly 100 in-service teachers have gone abroad to be visiting scholars or to study for degrees. The school adheres to the direction of running a socialist school, vigorously strengthens Party building and ideological and political work, builds a good school spirit, teaching style and study style, creates a good educational environment, and carries out a variety of campus scientific and cultural activities. Students' innovative spirit and practical ability have been significantly enhanced, and the overall employment rate of graduates in our college has been over 99% in the past three years. From 2008 to 20 13, students participated in various scientific and technological cultural competitions at all levels and won 533 prizes at or above the provincial level, including 232 national prizes and 4 14 provincial prizes. The school has set the development goal of "Twelfth Five-Year Plan": by 20 15, the school will be built into a teaching-oriented local comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics, outstanding dominant disciplines, significantly enhanced scientific research and social service capabilities, the comprehensive strength is at the forefront of similar universities in the province, and it has certain influence in the whole country. At present, the school is steadily implementing the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" and the "three-step" strategy in accordance with the concept of "science and engineering as the mainstay and comprehensive development", and is moving towards the goal of building a high-quality comprehensive university with local characteristics and the spirit of innovation and reform.