Shanghai second polytechnic university is an ordinary institution of higher learning in Shanghai, which is good at engineering, manages the coordinated development of arts and sciences, focuses on undergraduate education and has the right to award master's degrees. It is the construction (training) unit of Shanghai doctoral degree authorization unit. Shanghai second polytechnic university is a new university that has grown up with the socialist construction in New China.
The school, formerly known as Shanghai Amateur University of Technology, was founded in 1960, and 1984 was renamed shanghai second polytechnic university. It is the only university in Shanghai named after "Polytechnic University". The school has a team of teachers with high comprehensive quality, strong scientific research ability and rich teaching experience. At present, there are 820 full-time teachers, nearly 40% of whom have doctoral degrees, and there are 43 talents of all levels and types, such as the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, Oriental scholar distinguished professor and Shuguang scholar.
The school adheres to moral education and cultivates people, and deeply cultivates connotation development. The school is a training unit of "high-level local university construction" in Shanghai and a postdoctoral innovation practice base in Pudong New Area. Personnel training covers 6 disciplines and 23 professional categories, including engineering, management, economics, literature, science and art. At present, the first-level discipline 1 master's degree program, 7 master's degree programs, 47 undergraduate majors and 18 higher vocational majors.
Several characteristics of shanghai second polytechnic university.
1. Dominant disciplines: shanghai second polytechnic university has excellent scientific research strength and disciplinary advantages, and has made remarkable achievements in engineering, physics, materials science, information science, life science and other fields. Especially in frontier cross-cutting fields, such as nanotechnology and technology, biomedical engineering, quantum information science and so on. , enjoy important influence at home and abroad.
2. Innovative education: shanghai second polytechnic university pays attention to cultivating students' innovative thinking and practical ability. The school has put forward the educational concept of "innovative thinking, practical ability and global vision" and is committed to cultivating high-level talents with international competitiveness and innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.