Xiamen Institute of Technology

Xiamen Institute of Technology (formerly Lujiang Vocational University) and Xiamen Special Economic Zone were born at the same time and developed at the same time. It is the only provincial public undergraduate university in Xiamen that implements the joint construction of provinces and cities and the city based leadership and management system. In the process of running a school for more than 20 years, we have trained more than 20000 applied talents with modern engineering and technology ability and entrepreneurial quality for Xiamen Special Economic Zone and local economic development, which is known as the "cradle of talents for local economy". In 2004, Lujiang Vocational University was officially upgraded to an undergraduate college and renamed Xiamen Institute of technology. Since then, the school has entered a new period of rapid development: the enrollment scale has grown steadily, the quality of students has reached new heights, and the students have been widely praised by the society. Xiamen Institute of technology has become one of the most popular universities in Fujian Province.

The school has more than 16400 students (students). Among them, there are more than 13400 full-time undergraduate and junior college students (including international students), and more than 3000 adult education students. There are nearly 900 teaching staff, including 1 academician of Chinese Academy of engineering, 2 distinguished professors of Changjiang Scholars, 32.8% of full-time teachers with associate professor or above titles, and 77.1% of full-time teachers with master's or doctor's degree.

The school has two campuses, Siming and Jimei. Siming campus is located at the foot of beehive mountain at the south end of Xiamen Island, facing Gulangyu across the sea, adjacent to Nanputuo and Xiamen University. Jimei campus is located in Jimei Cultural and educational District, covering an area of more than 1100 mu, which was opened in 2005. Siming campus is close to the mountains and the sea, with luxuriant vegetation and quiet elegance. Jimei campus is surrounded by modern buildings with magnificent momentum and advanced facilities.

The school now has 17 departments, including Department of mechanical engineering, Department of architectural engineering, Department of electronic and electrical engineering, Department of computer science and technology, Department of environmental engineering, Department of mathematics, Department of business, Department of management science, Department of foreign languages, Department of cultural communication, Department of design and art, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of public sports, School of software, Department of space information science and engineering, School of international education and School of continuing education In the Department, there are 28 undergraduate majors and 25 distinctive specialized majors, involving many disciplines such as arts, science, engineering, economics, management and arts. The college has set up a number of scientific research institutions and industrial entities, such as space information technology research institute, mechanical and automotive engineering application technology research institute, water resources and Environment Research Institute, credit management research institute, Architectural Design Institute, mold design and manufacturing center, and more than 50 professional laboratories and engineering technology research centers open to the outside world.

Located in the special economic zone, it has unique geographical advantages

The school is located in Xiamen, the special economic zone of China. Xiamen is located in the southeast coast of Fujian Province, across the sea from Taiwan Island. It is a famous scenic tourist port city in China and the political, economic and cultural center of Southern Fujian. Xiamen has a pleasant climate and beautiful scenery. It has won a series of awards, such as "UN Habitat Award", National Health City, International Garden City and national civilized city (first place). Xiamen has a prosperous economy and developed science and education, ranking tenth in the comprehensive competitiveness of Chinese cities. With the implementation of the "West Coast strategy" and the new round of leapfrog development strategy of Xiamen in the "Eleventh Five Year Plan", Xiamen will gradually become an important central city in the construction of the Economic Zone on the west side of the Straits, and its location advantage to Taiwan will be more obvious, and its development prospect will be more bright! The university will fully rely on its unique geographical advantages and strive to become a model for local universities to serve the local economy and cross-strait education cooperation.

Clear positioning, clear and pragmatic development strategy

Since it was upgraded to an undergraduate university, the university has seized the opportunity, worked hard, focused on the construction of disciplines and majors, the construction of teaching staff and laboratory, closely linked with Xiamen's pillar industries, adapted to the needs of "Haixi" economic and social development, defined the school's positioning, and formulated a practical development strategy. That is: to build into a "characteristic, exquisite, highly competitive, open, application-oriented, local and International University of science and Engineering" as the development goal; to "cultivate practical, entrepreneurial and innovative high-level professionals with modern engineering and technology capabilities and Humanities and Social Sciences professional quality" as the talent training goal; to "undergraduate education oriented" The orientation of the university type is "Teaching Oriented University", the orientation of the university level and scale is "undergraduate education oriented, giving consideration to characteristic specialized education, maintaining adult higher education and higher vocational and technical education, moderately developing domestic and foreign cooperation in running schools, and actively striving for the multi-level running pattern of domestic and foreign graduate joint education", and the construction of "application-oriented university supported by basic disciplines" Science and engineering is relatively prominent, and the new system of disciplines and specialties of management, economy and humanities is coordinated development; the service orientation is "rooted in Xiamen, based on the west coast and facing the whole country".

Through active exploration, bold innovation, and relying on the five major school running strategies of "quality based school, talent based school, characteristic based school, open school, and international cooperation", Xiamen Institute of technology is on the road of characteristic development, advancing well and quickly!

Innovation and pragmatism, specialty setting closely linked to the market

The major offered by the school is closely related to the development of local economy, science and technology and industry and the demand for talents. Highlight the cultivation of pragmatic entrepreneurship, applied technology, practical ability and innovation ability. At present, all the 28 undergraduate majors of the university are connected with the pillar industries of Xiamen and Haixi Economic Zone. Among them, exhibition economy and management, cultural industry and management, business planning and management, optoelectronics, spatial information and digital technology are the first and only majors set up in Colleges and universities of Fujian Province; vehicle engineering, optoelectronic engineering, fashion design and engineering are listed as the key construction disciplines at the provincial level; physical and chemical engineering Flow management and engineering correspond to the development needs of port city. Civil engineering majors are closely related to the ever-changing urban construction. Computer, network engineering, digital animation design, art design, etc. are linked with Xiamen's software industry. Electronic and electrical majors are completely consistent with Xiamen's largest pillar industry. International business, e-commerce, business English, Japanese, financial management, etc At the same time, the university has also set up some special specialties, such as "automobile claims assessment" which is the first in China, and "flight attendant business" is a model of school enterprise cooperation.

High quality students

The university has always been one of the most popular universities in Fujian Province, and also one of the universities with the best quality of students. In recent years, with the steady growth of enrollment scale, the admission scores continue to rise. In 2008, the quality of students enrolled in other provinces reached a new high. The scores of 29 candidates in the second batch admitted by Jiangsu Province are all higher than those in the first line of Jiangsu Province. The Toudang line of Hunan Province ranks more than 400. The Toudang line of Shandong Province is 69 points higher than that of the second line, and the Toudang line of science and engineering is 81 points higher than that of the second line. In the first year of this year's enrollment in Shanghai, the number of students is sufficient. It can be seen that our school is becoming more and more famous and influential in other provinces. In the second batch of enrollment in Fujian Province, the liberal arts and science admission lines are ranked third, and the whole school has enrolled 112 candidates on the first line. In the batch enrollment of Higher Vocational Colleges in Fujian Province, 15 points higher than that of the second line in the category of literature and history, and 8 points higher than that of the second line in the category of science and engineering. In 2008, the registration rate of undergraduate students reached 99%, and that of junior college students reached 91%.

With rapid development, school resources are changing rapidly

After several years of rapid development, the school now has three provincial key disciplines of vehicle engineering, fashion design and engineering, optical engineering, three municipal key disciplines of English language and literature, communication, logistics management, exhibition economy and management, cultural industry and management, business planning and management, optoelectronics, spatial information and digital technology, automobile claims assessment, etc Fujian's universities are the first and only major to set up, with 11 provincial-level excellent courses, 27 university level excellent courses and 4 provincial-level famous teachers.

The university has vigorously implemented the "251 talent project" and the "100 excellent overseas talents plan". In the past two years, nearly 300 teaching staff have been added, including more than 70 high-level talents such as professors, associate professors with master's degree or above, postdoctors and doctors. Among them, there are not only doctoral guides from key universities, but also returned doctors. A group of academic backbone has been or will be integrated into the harmonious family of Polytechnic.

The school has also made steady progress in infrastructure construction. The modern Jimei new campus has begun to take shape. A number of modern buildings, such as the majestic experimental buildings, the magnificent and elegant teaching buildings, the exquisite graphic information center, the towering administrative office building, the standard and practical student dormitory area, have stood out in Jimei Cultural and educational district.

There are two libraries in Jimei campus and Siming campus. The main library of Jimei campus was built and put into use in 2007, covering an area of 16000 square meters. It has 7 basic libraries, foreign language reading rooms, newspaper reading rooms, e-reading rooms, multimedia rooms, study rooms and research rooms. It has nearly 2000 reading seats, 660000 paper books, 140000 e-books and 140000 Chinese books Data resources such as guozhi.com and wanfang.com order more than 1200 kinds of newspapers and periodicals every year.

At present, the building area of the laboratory is 50000 square meters, and the total value of teaching and experimental equipment is about 120 million yuan. The university physics laboratory, mechanics center, mechanical foundation experimental center, modern design and manufacturing experimental center, vehicle engineering laboratory, SOPC and embedded system application laboratory, fashion design and Engineering Experimental Center, photoelectric information technology experimental center, and business comprehensive experimental center have won the high-tech cooperation between the central and local governments of the Ministry of finance

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