Northwest University of Technology

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School history

Northwest University of technology was established in October 1957 by the merger of Northwest Institute of technology and the former Xi'an Institute of Aeronautics; in 1970, the Air Force Engineering Department of the Military Engineering College of the Chinese people's Liberation Army was integrated into Northwest University of technology

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Northwest Institute of Technology

In 1938, the national Beiyang Institute of Technology (now Tianjin University), the private Jiaozuo Institute of Technology (now China University of mining and Technology), the Institute of technology of Peking University and the Institute of technology of national Northeast University (now Northeast University) established the national Northwest Institute of technology in Hanzhong.

In 1946, he moved to Xianyang. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Beiyang Institute of technology, Northeast University Institute of technology and Jiaozuo Institute of technology moved out and resumed. The teachers and students of Beiping University Institute of technology and other three universities who did not move out continued to stay in the national Northwest Institute of technology.

In 1950, it was renamed Northwest Institute of technology.

East China Institute of Aeronautics (Xi'an Institute of Aeronautics)

In 1952, the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and Nanjing University established east China aeronautical college in Nanjing.

In 1956, East China Institute of Aeronautics moved to Xi'an and changed its name to Xi'an Institute of Aeronautics.

 

Department of Air Force Engineering, military engineering college of PLA

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 Department of Aeronautical Engineering of Harbin Institute of engineering.

In 1970, the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of Harbin Institute of technology was integrated into Northwest University of technology.

Northwest University of Technology

In 1960, it was designated as a national key university by the State Council.

 

In 1981, with the approval of the State Council, the University became one of the first batch of doctoral and master degree awarding units in China.

 

In 1986, the University set up a graduate school on a trial basis, which was officially established in 1996. It is one of the first batch of institutions to set up graduate schools.

In 1997, it entered the national "211 Project" key construction queue.

In 1999, it was selected into the first batch of national college students' cultural quality education bases.

 

In April 2001, it became the key construction University of the national "985 Project".

In December 2001, the first batch of national demonstration software colleges were approved.

 

In 2003, it was determined to be one of the 34 pilot units of national postgraduate enrollment reform that universities independently determine the re examination score line.

 

In June 2010, it was selected into the first batch of "excellent engineer education and training plan" universities of the Ministry of education.

 

In May 2012, it was rated as a national university with typical employment experience by the Ministry of education.

In 2014, under the joint testimony of President Xi Jinping and Belgian prime minister, the school signed a cooperation agreement with the VUB-Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

In 2016, the school of engineering of Queen Mary University in London of Northwest Polytechnic University was officially approved by the Ministry of education, becoming the first Chinese foreign cooperative school in Northwest China.

 

In May 2017, he joined the engineering education and Research Alliance of Chinese and British universities. In September, Northwestern Polytechnic University was selected into the list of national "double first-class" (world-class university and first-class discipline) construction universities, and entered the class a ranks of world-class university construction universities; in the same month, Medical Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnic University was established, which was jointly built by the University, air force Military Medical University and Shaanxi Provincial People's hospital. In November, Northwestern Polytechnic University was awarded the first national civilized campus.

 

In January 2018, it was officially listed as "Affiliated Hospital of Northwest University of technology" in Shaanxi Provincial People's hospital. In March, the school was selected into the first batch of national new engineering research and practice projects of the Ministry of education. In June, the signing ceremony of the agreement between Northwestern Polytechnic University and Taicang Municipal People's Government of Jiangsu Province to jointly build "Taicang campus of Northwestern Polytechnic University" was held in Taicang City.

 

In February 2019, the University was recognized by the Ministry of education as one of the first batch of Universities' scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases. In May, with the approval of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, the University was added as an independent examination unit of degree authorization. In September, he became a founding member and Council member of China Artificial Intelligence Education Association. In November, Xi'an Fourth Hospital Affiliated to Northwestern Polytechnic University was officially opened.

 

 

In June 2020, Northwest University of technology, China North Real Estate Group Co., Ltd. of China ordnance industry group and ordnance industry health research institute (hereinafter referred to as "521 Institute") jointly signed the overall transfer agreement of ordnance industry health research institute. According to the agreement, 521 hospitals are managed by Northwest University of technology, and 521 hospitals become directly affiliated hospitals of Northwest University of technology.

 

School running conditions

Department setting

As of December 2019, the university has 23 professional colleges and 67 undergraduate majors.

Faculty

As of December 2019, the university has more than 4000 teaching staff, including more than 2100 professors, associate professors and other senior titles, more than 650 doctoral supervisors; 31 academicians (including external employment), 37 Yangtze River scholars, 20 ten thousand leading talents, 20 winners of national fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 8 973 chief scientists, 4 national outstanding contribution experts, and national famous teacher award There are 4 winners, including 2 innovative research groups of NSFC, 7 national teaching teams, 7 innovation teams of Ministry of education and 8 national defense innovation teams.

 

 

Discipline construction

As of October 2019, the university has 35 first-class authorized disciplines for master's degree, 22 first-class authorized disciplines for doctor's degree and 21 mobile stations for post doctoral research. Among them, materials science, engineering, chemistry, computer science and other four disciplines entered the top 1% of ESI International disciplines, forming a discipline system led by the three aviation disciplines, coordinated development of 3M (materials, mechatronics, mechanics) disciplines, 3C (computer, communication, control) disciplines, science disciplines and Humanities and social sciences disciplines, which has laid a good foundation for the construction of world-class disciplines Good foundation. The university has 2 first-class disciplines, 7 second-class disciplines, and 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines.

 

 

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Teaching construction

From 2006 to 2014, the school won 34 national and provincial teaching achievement awards, including one national first prize and eight second prizes. The university has four national experimental teaching demonstration centers, three national talent training mode innovation experimental zones, three projects approved national talent training mode innovation experimental zones, 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, 27 national excellent courses and 1 national excellent video course Four National Bilingual Teaching Demonstration Courses and 158 textbook monographs have been included in the national and MIIT textbook monograph construction plan.

 

Experimental teaching demonstration center

 

National Talent Training Mode Innovation Experimental Zone

National characteristic specialty

 

Excellent courses

By 2014, the school has completed 27 "National Excellent Courses" and 72 "Shaanxi Excellent Courses".

 

Foreign cooperation

As of 2013, Northwestern Polytechnic University has established cooperative relations with more than 100 universities, enterprises and research institutes in more than 20 countries and regions in Asia, Europe and America, and has successively joined the "China Finland University Alliance", "China Spain University Alliance", "China Belarus University Alliance" and "China Russia Engineering University Alliance";

 

The university is a construction institution of "national construction high-level public postgraduate project", "national Sino French doctoral college project", and an independent recruitment institution of "Chinese government special scholarship - University Postgraduate"; the university is a member of two EU Erasmus projects The member unit of Mundus project, together with INSA Lyon of France, has carried out a cooperative school running project at the level of undergraduate and postgraduate training. There are two "national bases for introducing talents for Discipline Innovation in Colleges and universities" and one "national international training base for software talents", and 26 Sino foreign joint research institutions have been established, including Nobel laureates Li Zhengdao and Prof. Harold More than 130 international famous experts, scholars and professors, including Mr. kroto, are honorary or visiting professors.

 

On October 12, 2018, 360 group and Northwestern University of technology jointly signed a strategic cooperation agreement to build a "Cyberspace Security College", which will create a special zone for teachers and personnel training.

 

October 1, 2019

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