The school is located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, a famous historical and cultural city in China and a world-famous scenic spot. It covers an area of 805 mu, with a planned construction area of 280,000 square meters, and has completed 225,900 square meters. There are nearly 7000 students in general education at school; There are 507 registered faculty members, including 322 full-time teachers, 33 professors, 3 associate professors 100, 3 people who enjoy special allowances from the State Council, 3 people who were selected in the second and third grades of "15 1 talent project", 2 provincial discipline leaders and 1 provincial famous teacher 1 person. There are 50 multimedia and voice classrooms; The total value of existing teaching instruments and equipment is 40.079 million yuan; Building a campus network system with gigabit backbone bandwidth; The school library has more than 550,000 printed books, more than 360,000 electronic books and more than 0 kinds of paper periodicals 1 100. It has become one of the libraries with distinctive digital characteristics of water conservancy in Zhejiang Province and the richest collection of water conservancy and hydropower literature resources.
The school has always put the construction of disciplines and specialties in the first place. At present, there are 6 teaching departments, 29 majors, 1 Zhejiang university of technology affiliated undergraduate major, and 2 Chinese-foreign cooperative education majors, among which water conservancy and hydropower specialty is unique to Zhejiang universities. Most majors in the school have advanced experimental training bases in similar institutions. In addition, there are more than 70 off-campus practice bases, one of which is the largest estuary test base in East China in cooperation with Zhejiang Water Conservancy Estuary Research Institute.
The school actively carries out teaching research to promote the continuous improvement of teaching management and teaching level. Over the years, the school has undertaken a large number of scientific research and teaching research projects at all levels, published a large number of papers in various publications, and some papers have also been selected for retrieval by SCI, EI and ISTP. The school * * * has 8 Zhejiang excellent courses and 2 national excellent courses; Won 5 first and second prizes for provincial teaching achievements; At present, he is editing 9 textbooks of the Tenth Five-Year Plan and national cooperative textbooks of water conservancy higher vocational education. Our journal won the first prize of excellent journals of national higher vocational colleges for two consecutive years and was awarded the title of "Top Ten Journals of National Higher Vocational Colleges".
The school insists on teaching as the center and pays attention to the cultivation of students' practical application ability. Quality-oriented education has achieved fruitful results, the results of academic competitions are gratifying, and the employment effect of students is remarkable. The school has set up a professional skill appraisal station for special types of work in the water conservancy industry and launched 37 kinds of professional qualification certificates. In 2006, the average passing rate of students reached 9 1.2 1%. The school encourages and supports students to actively participate in extracurricular academic and scientific activities. In recent years, students have won a large number of national and provincial awards in various academic competitions. The comprehensive quality of school graduates is good, and employers generally reflect that graduates are "able to get down, need to get up and stay". In 2005 and 2006, the initial employment rate of graduates reached 97.6 1% and 96.94% respectively, and the school was also rated as an excellent unit for the employment of college graduates in Zhejiang Province in 2005. Over the past 50 years, a large number of professionals in water conservancy, electric power and machinery have been trained, and many of them have become leaders and business backbones of water conservancy system management departments or enterprises. More than 200 graduates have successively held leadership positions above deputy director of municipal and county (city, district) water conservancy bureau, and the school is also known as the cradle of Zhejiang water conservancy and hydropower personnel training.
The school is thriving, and the construction of spiritual civilization has also achieved remarkable results. In 2003 and 2004, it was rated as a civilized unit in Hangzhou and a civilized unit in the Ministry of Water Resources. In 2005, it was awarded the first batch of "Safe Campus" of provincial universities. In 2006, it was rated as the "fourth five-year plan" advanced unit of the national water conservancy system, and successfully passed the evaluation of talent training in higher vocational colleges of the Ministry of Education. A civilized, safe and harmonious environment provides good conditions for students' growth.
A road goes out of Yangguan, and the spring breeze blows in all directions. At present, various undertakings of the school are in a new period of vigorous development. With the care and support of the higher authorities, the school will further change the educational concept, deepen the reform of education and teaching, adhere to Scientific Outlook on Development, build a harmonious and safe campus, and strive to build the school into an influential domestic application-oriented higher education institution with engineering as the main body, water conservancy and hydropower as the characteristics, coordinated development of multiple disciplines, and training high-quality technical and applied talents. (2006. 1 1)