Northwest University of Technology

Located in the ancient capital Xi'an, Northwestern Polytechnic University is a multidisciplinary, research-oriented and Open University characterized by the development of aviation, aerospace and maritime engineering education and scientific research. It is subordinate to the Ministry of industry and information technology. It is one of the member universities of "excellent university alliance".

Pulse source three, strong fusion, culture thick, distinctive features. Northwest University of technology was established in October 1957 by the merger of Northwest Institute of technology and Xi'an Institute of Aeronautics. In 1970, the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of Harbin Institute of technology was integrated into Northwest University of technology. In 1938, the national Beiyang Institute of technology, Beiping University Institute of technology, national Northeast University Institute of technology and private Jiaozuo Institute of technology established the national Northwest Institute of technology in Hanzhong. In 1946, it moved to Xianyang and changed its name to Northwest Institute of technology in 1950. In 1952, the aeronautical engineering departments of Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and Nanjing University established east China aeronautical college in Nanjing. In 1956, they moved to Xi'an and renamed Xi'an aeronautical college. In 1952, the Air Force Engineering Department of the Military Engineering College of the Chinese people's Liberation Army was established in Harbin. In 1966, it was renamed the Aviation Engineering Department of Harbin Engineering College.

For more than 70 years, adhering to the school motto of "honesty, bravery and perseverance", the school has carried forward the school spirit of "three solid and one new" (solid foundation, practical work, simple style, pioneering and innovation), and has made great progress in various undertakings. It has become an important base for China's high-level personnel training, scientific research and technological innovation. The school is a national civilized unit and the winner of May 1 labor certificate. It has trained the first doctor in six disciplines in China. The first small UAV, the first ground effect vehicle, the first underwater unmanned intelligent vehicle and the first airborne computer were born in our university. The University was designated as a national key university by the State Council in 1960. It was listed as one of the 15 universities in China in the Seventh Five Year Plan and the eighth five year plan by the State Council. In the ninth five year plan, it was first set up in the national 211 project, and in the tenth five year plan, it was set up in the National 985 project. The university is one of the first batch of universities to set up graduate school and National University Science and Technology Park in China, with Northwest Institute of industrial technology and the largest UAV research and development base in China.

The school covers an area of 5100 mu, including friendship campus of 1200 Mu and Chang'an campus of 3900 mu. There are 16 professional colleges, 62 undergraduate programs, 122 master programs, 69 doctoral programs and 16 post doctoral mobile stations. At present, there are 2 first-class national key disciplines, 7 second-class national key disciplines, 2 National Key Cultivation disciplines, 21 first-class doctoral degree authorized disciplines and 31 first-class master degree authorized disciplines. It has one State Key Laboratory, six national defense science and technology key laboratories, two national engineering centers, one national defense science and technology industry research and Application Center, 33 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 20 provincial and ministerial engineering technology research centers, and one provincial humanities and social science base. At present, the university has 26408 full-time students, including 3348 full-time doctoral students, 7855 full-time Master students, 14424 undergraduates and 781 international students.

The teaching staff is strong. At present, there are more than 3500 faculty members, including more than 1700 professors and associate professors with senior titles, 538 doctoral supervisors, 19 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (including double employment), 10 winners of the "thousand talents plan", 20 achievement awards, distinguished professors and lecturers of the Yangtze River scholars, 11 winners of the national fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and 7 national outstanding contribution experts, There are 4 winners of the national famous teacher award, 13 winners of the China Youth Science and technology award, 18 winners of the national "100 million talent project", "2 young top-notch talents", 3 winners of the outstanding young science foundation, and 98 winners of the new century outstanding talents. At present, the university has 7 national teaching teams, 7 innovation teams of the Ministry of education, 2 innovation research groups of NSFC, 8 national defense innovation teams and 1 national defense excellent innovation team.

Remarkable achievements have been made in education and teaching. Since the 11th five year plan, the university has won 34 national and provincial teaching achievement awards, including one national first prize and eight second prizes. The school has four national experimental teaching demonstration centers, three national talent training mode innovation experimental areas, and three projects approved national talent training mode innovation experimental areas. There are 13 national characteristic majors, 9 national defense key construction majors, 4 national defense characteristic short majors, 8 key majors of the Ministry of industry and information technology, 3 majors are approved as "national specialty comprehensive reform pilot", 4 majors have passed the professional evaluation and certification of the Ministry of education, 16 Shaanxi famous majors, 27 national excellent courses, 1 National Excellent Video open course and 4 national bilingual education courses 158 textbook monographs have been included in the national and MIIT textbook monograph construction plan. It has undertaken the national education system reform project - "exploring the reform of international talent training mode", and carried out the pilot joint training of Chinese and foreign students; established the "innovative talent training characteristic class" led by academicians and Changjiang Scholars; promoted the education cooperation of "excellent university alliance" and carried out the study tour of domestic universities; 455 projects have been included in the innovation and entrepreneurship training program of college students Eyes. Since the 11th five year plan, college students have won 2786 awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level, including 133 international first and second prizes and 364 national special, first and second prizes. "Graduate innovation experiment center" is one of the first batch of student innovation experiment center projects constructed by the Ministry of education. It is also the "national defense science and technology graduate innovation experiment base" invested by the former national defense science and Technology Commission. The university has won 13 national excellent doctoral dissertations.

Scientific research is fruitful. Since the 11th five year plan, the university has undertaken more than 10000 scientific research projects, including major national science and technology projects, weapon and equipment type projects, national defense basic research and pre research plan, National 863 plan, 973 Plan, National Natural Science Foundation and other major national science and technology projects. The science and technology funding of the university has been in the forefront of colleges and universities in China for many years, reaching 1.838 billion yuan in 2013. Since the 11th five year plan, the university has won 284 national, provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, including 2 National Natural Science second prizes, 8 national technological invention second prizes, 3 National Scientific and technological progress first prizes, 7 second prizes, 164 national defense science and technology awards, and 91 Shaanxi science and technology awards. 1662 invention patents are authorized. China Science and technology papers and Citations Database (CSTPCD) has collected 26748 papers, and scie has collected 4980 papers. In 16 national science and technology major projects, the university has participated in the preliminary demonstration and scientific research of 10 major projects, including large aircraft, nuclear high-tech, manned space and lunar exploration project. He has presided over and deeply participated in the research and development of various models in the fields of aviation, aerospace and navigation, assisted the major national projects such as "Liaoning" aircraft carrier, new fighter plane and Beidou satellite, and participated in the research and development of Shenzhou series spacecraft. He is one of the two universities "contributing to China's first manned space flight". In the 60th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China National Day parade, all three models of the UAV squadron were developed and produced by our school. The university has made great contributions to the development of national defense science and technology.

Talents are cultivated in large numbers. Since its establishment, the university has provided more than 160000 senior scientific and technological talents for national defense science and technology and national economic construction, including more than 4500 doctors and more than 29300 masters. 34 doctors and teachers have been awarded the Humboldt Foundation. Among the alumni are more than 30 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of engineering, more than 30 generals and 6 top ten outstanding young people in China. A large number of alumni have become leaders and pillars of national defense scientific research and production units.

International cooperation has developed rapidly. It has established cooperative relations with more than 100 institutions of higher learning, enterprises and scientific research institutes in more than 10 countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Russia and Japan. The university has successively joined the "China Finland University Alliance", "China Spain University Alliance", "China Belarus University Alliance" and "China Russia Engineering University Alliance". It is the construction institution of "national construction high level university public postgraduate project", "national public excellent undergraduate international exchange project" and "national public postgraduate project". As a member of the Erasmus project of the European Union, the university has carried out cooperative education projects with INSA Lyon of France, the Free University of Brussels of Belgium, Leicester University of England, the State University of New Mexico of the United States, the University of Michigan, and Brunswick University of technology of Germany. As a member of the "alliance of excellence universities", the "alliance of French polytechnics", which is composed of 13 Polytechnics in France, cooperates to train "outstanding engineers". Master of science and engineering graduates can obtain their master's degree and the engineer diploma recognized by CTI. The school is the Asian mission control center of the European Union's "international satellite network composed of 50 cubic stars (qb50 for short)" project. Since 1996, the university has been recruiting foreign students to China, and has the independent enrollment qualification of "Chinese government special scholarship university graduate students". The university has three "national colleges and universities discipline innovation talent introduction base" and one "national software talent international training base", and has established 39 Sino foreign joint research institutions. More than 190 international experts, including Nobel laureates Li Zhengdao and Harold croto, were invited

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