Chengdu University of Science and Technology is located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, referred to as Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu University of Science and Technology and CUST. Its predecessor was Chengdu Institute of Technology, which was established with the Engineering College of Sichuan University as the main body. It is one of the major engineering colleges in China during the adjustment period of the 65438-0952 Department.

As a well-known multidisciplinary engineering college, it was renamed Chengdu University of Technology on 1978, and it is one of the most powerful national key engineering universities in western China.

Establish background

The former Chengdu University of Science and Technology was founded in 1954, then called Chengdu Institute of Technology, which represented a new university formed by the adjustment of colleges and departments, and in a sense was the product of learning from the Soviet Union.

Before the establishment of Chengdu Institute of Technology, the Southwest Military and Political Committee decided to establish Sichuan Institute of Chemical Technology in the original site of Luzhou South Sichuan Institute of Technology and South Sichuan Administrative Office.

1952165438+1October 17, Sichuan institute of chemical technology was formally established, with founder as vice president and secretary of the general branch of the college. Sichuan Institute of Chemical Technology is a newly-built higher engineering college in southwest China, which is formed by merging the chemical engineering departments of Sichuan University, Chongqing University, Southwest Institute of Technology, South Sichuan Institute of Technology, Leshan Vocational and Technical College, Xichang Vocational and Technical College, North Sichuan University, Southwest Agricultural College and Leather Department of West China University.

Before the establishment of Sichuan Institute of Chemical Technology, all transfer schools had begun to learn from the advanced teaching experience of the Soviet Union and reform the old education.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chengdu University of Science and Technology