Silicon Lake College

1、 Preface

In the core area of China's Yangtze River Delta, Kunshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, stands a world-famous emerging city. This is a fertile land with rich cultural heritage. It has bred Kunqu Opera, the ancestor of all kinds of operas, Zhouzhuang, the Pearl of water town, Kunshi, the king of strange stones, and Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs!

She is also a hot spot, with a large number of talents in all ages, including Zu Chongzhi, the founder of PI, Shen Wansan, the founder of wealth, Gu Yanwu, the founder of "every man is responsible for the rise and fall of a country", Zhu Bailu, the creator of "the maxim of running a family", Ding Shande, the contemporary famous composer, and Fei Junlong, the aerospace hero. Kunshan people are proud of their achievements and glory.

After liberation, especially in the past 30 years of reform and opening up, Kunshan has deeply attracted more than 4000 investors, developers and Taiwan funded enterprises from all over the world, including the world's top 500 enterprises, with its extraordinary courage, broad mind and endless vitality. Its gross national product has exceeded the level of moderately developed countries, ranking first among the top 100 counties and cities in China, and has become the most economically developed region in the Yangtze River Delta Commercial prosperity, technological progress, social stability, the most competitive new city.

Great opening up, great development and great leap forward call for great education. In the 1990s, with the foresight and insight of Dr. Liang Shuncai, a Chinese American scholar, Suzhou yinmenghu group saw that the regional economic and social development would inevitably bring about an urgent demand for talents, especially high-quality and high skilled applied and entrepreneurial talents, and resolutely decided to invest in running schools. On November 15, 1998, with the strong support of Jiangsu Province and Suzhou Municipal People's government, Sihu Polytechnic laid a grand foundation and became the first university in Kunshan history.

The word "Silicon Lake" was personally selected by Liang Shuncai, the founder of the college. It means "Silicon Lake" by virtue of the surge of talents from "Silicon Valley" and expresses the great wish of self-improvement and education for the country.

2、 Overview

Sihu vocational and technical college is located in Huaqiao International Business City, Kunshan City, backed by Suzhou and close to Shanghai. It is the core area of the Yangtze River Delta and has great development potential. Many advanced manufacturing and modern service enterprises gathered in Suzhou and Shanghai have created unique regional advantages for the rapid development of the college and good employment of students.

According to the market demand, the college has set up ten departments, including mechanical and automotive engineering department, civil engineering department, information engineering department, biomedical department, art and design department, business administration department, foreign language department, foundation department, international cooperation department and continuing education department, with 43 majors (including professional direction), covering five categories of engineering, economic management, biology, language and design, and is full-time in school Nearly 7000 people were born.

At present, there are 344 full-time teachers, including 2 young and middle-aged experts who enjoy the special allowance of the State Council and have made outstanding contributions in the province, 59 with senior titles, 93 graduate students with master's degree or above, 117 double qualified teachers, 6 foreign teachers from Canada, Japan, South Korea and other countries, and 53 part-time teachers with high theory and rich practice from well-known universities and enterprises.

The college covers an area of 403 mu, with 150000 square meters of various buildings, including teaching building, experimental building, library, training base, student apartment, restaurant, multi-functional sports and entertainment center, life service center, track and field, ball games field. The teaching experiment equipment is complete, all kinds of facilities meet the needs of teaching, learning and life. The college has 58 professional training centers and laboratories, including advanced automobile assembly and disassembly center, CNC Mechanical and electrical training center building, accounting simulation, stock market simulation, etc., and cooperates with nearly 100 enterprises to build 74 complete off campus practice and training bases, providing good conditions for students to integrate theory with practice and cultivate practical ability.

Gigabit Ethernet covering the whole school has built a convenient channel for teaching, learning, communication and information inquiry. Founder Digital Campus information platform provides management support for the full implementation of the credit system.

3、 Running a school

In the past ten years, Sihu Polytechnic adheres to the motto of "responsibility and honor", adheres to the road of "integration of production, teaching and research", and takes "social demand is the direction of running a school, enterprise satisfaction is the quality standard, and adapting to the economy is the development of the school" as the policy of running a school. It is committed to creating a higher vocational education system with the characteristics of Sihu, and striving to cultivate talents who can adapt to the modern economy It is necessary for the economic and social development to cultivate the applied and entrepreneurial talents. ? employment oriented, service demand

In the past ten years, the college has insisted on taking employment as the guidance, put forward the school running goal of "based on Kunshan, facing the Yangtze River Delta, cultivating high skilled talents with both active mind and hands-on ability for local economic construction" and the talent training requirements of "honesty and trustworthiness, sufficient culture, excellent skills and diverse certificates". It has insisted on conducting regular Market Research on talent demand and tracking survey on graduates Market changes, timely adjustment and development of new professions, to achieve "professional development and market synchronization, professional transformation and knowledge update synchronization, professional setting and regional economic development synchronization", has added more than 10 market urgent need, employment prospects of professional or technical personnel Professional direction.

Each specialty of the college has set up a "Specialty Construction Committee", inviting technical backbones and visiting professors from relevant enterprises to participate in the formulation of specialty teaching plan, curriculum outline and skill training guide. In the teaching process, the college always takes improving the employment competitiveness as the foothold, and strives to improve the training quality. It emphasizes the three principles of "paying equal attention to basic ability and professional ability, innovation education and practice education, and academic certificate and skill certificate". It focuses on English, computer and Vocational skills, and integrates graduation design (Thesis) and various internships The practical teaching links such as military training and learning, social practice, public welfare work and quality education assessment are all included in the credit assessment system, so as to cultivate personalized and diversified innovative talents on the basis of comprehensively improving students' comprehensive quality. In the past ten years, it has made a large number of outstanding teaching achievements, among which Gu Xudong's "virtual office space design" and Liu Hanyang's "architectural design of Suzhou Xinhong primary school campus" from the 4th art design department and the 5th civil engineering department respectively won the third prize and the first prize of the graduation design (Thesis) of Jiangsu ordinary colleges and universities, and the 7th art design department The graduation project of Jiang Zhefeng, a graduate, was awarded the second prize in the 2007 undergraduate and junior college graduation project (Thesis) evaluation and random inspection in Jiangsu Province. In October 2007, 1081 students of our college signed up for the provincial computer grade examination, and the passing rate was 87.7%, of which the excellent rate was 21.46%, which was far higher than the passing rate of 69.72% and the excellent rate of 4.87%, ranking 11th among more than 100 reference schools in the Province. In May 2008, there were 1204 students in our college who took part in the computer grade examination of Jiangsu Province, and the one-time passing rate reached 91.29%, nearly 20 percentage points higher than the average passing rate of 72.26% in the whole province, ranking the fourth in the comprehensive ranking of colleges and universities in the whole Province, realizing a historic breakthrough. ?

Fully implement the complete credit system

In order to cultivate applied and entrepreneurial talents who can really meet the market demand and have distinctive personality, Sihu Polytechnic, under the strong promotion of the board of directors, has tried out the credit system reform since Grade 2007, becoming the only private university among the 20 universities approved by Jiangsu Provincial Department of education to implement the credit system. Shi Baofeng, chairman of the board of directors, clearly put forward "if we don't allow students to choose their own courses, how can we cultivate applied and entrepreneurial talents?"

According to the training objectives and characteristics of higher vocational education, the school puts the construction of curriculum system in a prominent position. On the premise of ensuring the quality of major training, the school comprehensively integrates and excavates the curriculum resources inside and outside the specialty as well as the teaching resources inside and outside the school, and constructs a diversified Module Curriculum System with "ability as the standard, professional practice as the main line, and project curriculum as the main body", so as to promote the development of higher vocational education Some professional courses have been reformed in order form, and the most advanced teaching management software "Zhengfang University modern teaching management information system" has been configured to establish a new teaching and student management system and operation mechanism suitable for the credit system. Now, in Sihu vocational and technical college, students can complete the professional core courses under the guidance of their tutors, and independently carry out the credit courses of cross class, cross department and cross specialty. In the cooperation between school and enterprise, for any project involving cross department, cross category and cross specialty, the professional core curriculum and credits can also be jointly agreed by relevant majors and cooperative enterprises, so as to ensure that the implementation of the credit system is really conducive to promoting the combination of production, teaching and research, innovation of teaching mode and improvement of school running efficiency, greatly improving students' learning initiative and enthusiasm, and providing guidance for teachers Self improvement, career development and income increase expand the space. ?

Combining production with learning to cultivate talents

At the beginning of the establishment of Sihu Polytechnic, the board of directors of Sihu Polytechnic took the "integration of production, teaching and research" as the foundation of the school and the road to strengthen the school. The board of directors of Sihu Polytechnic requires the college to fully cooperate with the enterprise from six aspects, including "professional development, talent specifications, teaching plan, curriculum content, team construction and assessment", and strive to achieve the following goals: the specialty setting is in line with the market demand, and the training specifications are in line with the enterprise requirements In order to realize the combination of school education and enterprise employment, the teaching content should be connected with enterprise technological transformation and scientific and technological progress.

After ten years of exploration, the college has established various forms of school enterprise cooperation training mode in practice, such as "work study alternation", "order training", "Internship", "post practice" and "school enterprise dual training"

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