After years of efforts, the Institute of Automation has made great achievements in teaching and scientific research. At present, the Institute of Automation has 2 professors, 4 associate professors and 5 lecturers. Director: Professor Gu Hong, Deputy Director: Associate Professor Chen Chang, who is studying for more than 60 masters and doctors.

Research direction: modern control theory and application, process detection and intelligent control, modern power electronic technology and devices, embedded control technology and system, AC and DC drive system, design and integration of large-scale automation system. In recent years, it has undertaken dozens of scientific research projects entrusted by provinces, cities and enterprises, many of which are large-scale public bidding projects, and the representative ones are "electronic quantitative packaging control system", "300 ton/hour large asphalt mixer control system", "large gantry planer transmission control system" and "wireless distributed data acquisition and processing system".

He has published hundreds of papers in academic conferences and professional journals at home and abroad, and many achievements have won the Ministry, provincial and municipal scientific and technological progress awards.

Brief introduction of automation technology laboratory

Automation Technology Laboratory is affiliated to the Department of Automation, School of Electronic and Information Engineering. It is an automation professional laboratory, which consists of three professional laboratories: automatic control, industrial automation and production process automation. Experiments on courses such as automatic control principle, motor and transmission, detection technology and instruments, power electronics technology, control instruments and equipment, process control engineering, automatic control system, modern control theory foundation, programmable controller, etc. Major-oriented majors include "automation" and "electrical engineering and its automation". Now more than 60 automation technology experiments can be provided. In addition, the laboratory also has a network system named "ePLAN Automation System Design" for students to use in course design and graduation thesis (design). There are more than 50 sets of various experimental devices in the laboratory. Among them, the motor and drag experimental device and the process control comprehensive experimental device are designed and developed by automation teachers and experimental technicians themselves, which can meet various experimental requirements.