The school was founded in 1988, approved by the Ministry of Education as a full-time undergraduate college in 2005, and passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching in 20 15.
The school is a high-level application-oriented undergraduate university (one body, two wings and six synergies) with engineering as the mainstay and six disciplines of engineering, management, economics, art, literature and medicine developing in harmony. Now it has two campuses in Donghai and Nanshan, and 12 secondary colleges, including engineering college, business college, humanities college, chemical engineering and technology college, materials science and engineering college, textile science and engineering college, health college, music college, aviation college, Marxism college, nationalities college and applied technology and training college, with a total of 55 departments (departments and centers).