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How to evaluate the architecture department of Shanghai Jiaotong University?
The architectural engineering specialty of Shanghai Jiaotong University was established in 1907, which is one of the earliest civil engineering specialties in Chinese history. 1952 during the adjustment of national departments, all teachers and students were merged into Tongji university. 1985 Shanghai jiaotong university resumed the establishment of the department of civil engineering, 1993 the department of civil engineering opened the architecture major, and began enrolling students that year. 1998 The Master of Design Arts program was jointly established by architecture major and industrial design department. In 2002, it was separated from the Department of Architectural Engineering and set up a separate department. On May 13, 2004, Shanghai Jiaotong University officially approved the newly merged School of Ship, Ocean and Architecture to establish the Department of Architecture.

1, development overview

In 2006, the Department of Architecture of Jiaotong University participated in and passed the professional evaluation organized by the National Architectural Professional Steering Committee for the first time, and obtained the right to confer architectural degrees, becoming the executive director unit of Shanghai Architectural Society and the vice chairman unit of Shanghai Landscape Society. By the end of the 20 13 academic year, the department of architecture has set up architecture undergraduate major (five-year program) and architecture first-class master major.

2. Teaching staff

By the end of 20 12, there were 3 1 full-time teachers in the Department of Architecture of Jiaotong University, including 4 professors and 7 associate professors. Is a high-quality, diversified teaching staff. 77% of teachers have doctorates, 20% have overseas degrees, and 90% have overseas study and work experience. In addition, academicians of China Academy of Engineering, national design masters and other famous experts and scholars at home and abroad serve as consultants or part-time professors of the academic committee of the Department.

3. School-running concept

Since its establishment in 2004, the Department of Architecture, with the help of the high-level discipline platform of Shanghai Jiaotong University and Shanghai's regional advantages, has started from the frontier development trend of contemporary architectural design and university education, and made great efforts to explore the leap-forward development path of first-class architectural disciplines with its own distinctive characteristics on the basis of drawing lessons from excellent architectural education and practical achievements at home and abroad.

The architecture department of Jiaotong University has a high starting point and high standards, and has gradually established a school-running idea based on the concept of modern architecture ontology, characterized by interaction with the frontier development of contemporary architecture technology, guided by the holistic view of urban and rural environment and the historical view of broadening horizons, and paying attention to the frontier development of international disciplines and the actual needs of national construction.

4. Personnel training

As of May 20 13, the Department of Architecture of Jiaotong University has three excellent courses in Shanghai 1 and three key courses in Shanghai Education Commission. In teaching, make full use of cross-departmental cooperative teaching, joint teaching of Chinese and foreign architectural colleges, design courses taught by famous architects at home and abroad, and various high-level academic lectures and forums to continuously improve and improve the academic and teaching environment, and establish off-campus teaching practice bases in cooperation with many famous domestic design institutions to improve students' social practice ability and professional quality.

Every year, the Department of Architecture of Jiaotong University selects the best undergraduate students by adopting the national college entrance examination and Shanghai Jiaotong University's independent enrollment, and the admission scores in many provinces and cities are better than those in many well-known domestic architecture colleges. Every year, an average of about 50 undergraduates and 20 postgraduates majoring in architecture are enrolled. By the end of 20 12, there were 243 students, including 202 undergraduates and 4 postgraduates.

The students of architecture department of Jiaotong University have made great achievements in previous national college students' architectural design competitions, homework evaluation and various domestic and foreign design competitions. Many graduates went to Harvard University, Columbia University, Zurich Institute of Technology, British Architectural Union School, University of Tokyo and other world-class architectural institutions for further study. In addition, the Department of Architecture of Jiaotong University also attaches great importance to the cultivation of students' various qualities, and has successively won the honorary titles of "China College Students' Self-improvement Star Model", "China College Students' Self-improvement Star" and "Shanghai Jiaotong University President Award" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the National Federation of Students.

5. Scientific research

(1) research direction

The main research directions of architecture department of Jiaotong University include: innovative architectural design theory and method research, building energy-saving technology research, intensive urban planning technology research, architecture and urban heritage protection and renewal research.

In the past five years, the Department of Architecture of Jiaotong University has obtained a number of important scientific research projects, including: National Natural Science Foundation projects, key projects of the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, "Eleventh Five-Year Science and Technology Support Plan" projects of the Ministry of Construction, humanities and social sciences projects of the Ministry of Education, research start-up fund projects of returned overseas students of the Ministry of Education, projects funded by the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, and projects funded by the Shanghai Cultural Relics Management Committee.

(2) Research team

Focusing on its own discipline characteristics and future development direction, the Department of Architecture of Jiaotong University has successively set up research teams such as the Institute of Architectural Design and Landscape, the Research Center of Urban and Architectural Sustainable Development, the International Research Center for Architectural Heritage Protection (Sino-Italian Cooperation), and the Research Group of Building Ventilation and Indoor Environment. In addition, the China-Europe Modern Wood Structure Research Center is under construction.

(3) Research results

Since 2008, the discipline construction of architecture department of Jiaotong University has adhered to the direction of striving for first-class and realizing leap-forward development, and teaching and scientific research have made great progress. Teachers' design, art and other creative achievements have won many awards and won wide acclaim. Academic papers and works, many of which have had an important impact in the professional field.