Southeast University

essential information

Historical evolution

The late Qing Dynasty

Southeast University originated from Sanjiang normal school, which was founded in 1902. The school consists of the Department of physics and Chemistry (later called the Department of physics and chemistry Mathematics), the Department of Agronomy (later called the Department of Agronomy), the Department of history and geography, and the Department of manual drawing.

In May 1906, Zhou Fuyi, governor of Liangjiang, named "Three Rivers" as "two rivers" and "Liangjiang superior normal school" according to the regulations of the constitution of zouding school.

In 1912, Liangjiang excellent normal school was officially closed

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the Republic of China era

In August 1914, Han Guojun, the governor of Jiangsu Province, appointed Jiang Qian, the former director of the Education Department of Jiangsu Province, as the president of Nanjing Normal University to prepare for the construction of Liangjiang Normal School. In the autumn of 1916, in view of China's backward productivity and poverty, the country urgently needed to develop industry; and because of the outbreak of the first World War, imperialism had no time to look East, which brought opportunities to the development of China's national industry. Because of the urgent need for industrial talents, the South high school set up an industrial specialty. At the beginning, the engineering education was extensive, and then gradually focused on mechanical manufacturing and technology.

In April 1920, Guo Bingwen put forward the proposal of establishing a national university on the basis of Nanjing Normal University at the school affairs meeting, which was unanimously approved by the members attending the meeting.

On July 13, 1921, the Ministry of Education approved the outline of Southeast University. National Southeast University has six disciplines, including engineering. At the beginning, there was only mechanical engineering department under engineering. In March 1923, Mao Yisheng, then director of engineering, together with Li Shiqiong and other seven professors of engineering, jointly proposed the proposal of adding civil engineering department and electrical engineering department to the University Council and the faculty Council. The proposal passed the deliberation of the University Council and the faculty Council.

In the autumn of 1924, engineering was separated from Southeast University and established into national river and sea engineering university with river and sea engineering school.

In July 1927, the education administrative committee explicitly ordered that the former National Southeast University, Hehai Engineering University, Jiangsu law and Politics University, Jiangsu Medical University, Shanghai University of Commerce, Nanjing Industrial school, Suzhou Industrial school, Shanghai commercial school, Nanjing Agricultural School and other nine public schools with junior college or above in Jiangsu be merged to form the national fourth Sun Yat sen University. National fourth Sun Yat sen University has nine colleges, one of which is located in the former site of Nanjing Institute of technology in fuchengqiao, Nanjing, and the other is located in the former site of National Southeast University in Sipailou, Nanjing. At this time, the Institute of technology had seven branches, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, architecture, mining and Metallurgy Engineering, chemical engineering, dyeing and weaving.

On February 291928, the fourth Sun Yat sen University was renamed Jiangsu University. The change of the name of Jiangsu University caused a stir in the name of the University. On April 24, the University Committee changed the name of "Jiangsu University" to "National Central University" by University College No. 337 instruction. In the early days of the founding of the National Central University, the Institute of technology, as in the period of the Fourth National Sun Yat sen University, still had seven branches. Later, the mining and metallurgical engineering and dyeing and weaving branches were suspended.

In September 1933, the Institute of technology re established the chemical engineering group and later changed it into a department.

In November 1934, the special research class of machinery was organized.

In August 1938, he developed into the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, and created the Aeronautical Engineering Education in China.

In 1937, the Department of water conservancy engineering was set up.

During the Anti Japanese War, the school of engineering of National Central University, which took refuge in Sichuan, had seven departments, including civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, architecture, chemical engineering, aviation and water conservancy.

In April 1943, the executive yuan of Wang puppet government restored the Central University by setting up the Central University in Nanjing. At the beginning of its establishment, the University set up two academies of science and engineering, but soon merged into a college of science and engineering, with departments of civil engineering, chemical engineering, mathematics and mechanical engineering. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the National Central University prepared to demobilize Nanjing.

In November 1946, the National Central University resumed classes in Sipailou, Nanjing, and the Institute of technology still has seven departments

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In the early days of the people's Republic of China

In January 1949, the failure of the Nanjing national government became a foregone conclusion, and Zhou Hongjing, the president of CUHK, was ordered to move to the University. However, the staff of CUHK generally lost confidence in the KMT, and most professors decided to stay in Nanjing. After Zhou Hongjing abandoned his post and left school, CUHK, under the leadership of the underground organization of the Communist Party, successively formed a contingency Committee and a temporary School Affairs Committee to maintain school affairs and protect school property, preparing to welcome the PLA into the city.

On April 1, 1949, a student march against the Kuomintang government broke out in Nanjing, which was suppressed by the military and police. Two students of CUHK were killed. On April 23, the PLA moved into Nanjing, and the CMC sent Zhao Zhuo to CUHK to take over, announcing that Liang Xi would be in charge of the school affairs. On August 8, CUHK received a notice from the Ministry of education in East China and changed its name to National Nanjing University (in October 1950, it went to "National University") with Pan Shu as president.

In 1950, the civil engineering department and Art Department of Anhui University were incorporated into Nanjing University.

During this period, the teaching scale of all colleges in the University was maintained, and only the Institute of technology still had a certain development.

In 1949, Qian Zhonghan was the president of the Institute of technology, and there are still seven departments with 47 professors and associate professors. In 1949, there were 2363 students in the University, including 634 in the Institute of technology. In 1951, there were 2545 undergraduates in the University, including 976 in the Institute of technology, accounting for 38% of the University. It was the largest college at that time.

In 1952, with the main purpose of "training talents and teachers for industrial construction", the large-scale adjustment of colleges and departments began. In Nanjing, based on the former Department of mechanical engineering, Department of civil engineering, Department of chemical engineering, Department of architectural engineering, Department of electrical engineering and Department of food industry of Nanjing University, a multidisciplinary university of technology was established, named Nanjing engineering institute

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From 1952 to 1953, some specialties of Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Xiamen University, Jiaotong University and Shandong Institute of technology were merged successively.

At the end of 1952, Nanjing Institute of technology set up 7 departments and basic courses teaching and research groups, including architecture department, mechanical engineering department, electric power engineering department, telecommunication engineering department, civil engineering department, chemical engineering department and food industry department. It set up 10 undergraduate and 10 specialty, with 265 teachers, 1948 students and 87 professors and associate professors. At that time, it was the largest university in Nanjing

. In view of the needs of national industrial construction and the development of the Institute of technology, the joint meeting of Nanjing University and Jinling university decided to take the former four archway headquarters of Nanjing University as the site of the Institute of technology. After the adjustment, Nanjing Institute of technology began to recruit graduate students. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, a total of 117 graduate students were recruited.

In 1954, the telecommunication department changed its name to the radio department, and the power department merged with the thermal power plant specialty of the mechanical department and changed its name to the power department.

In 1957, the Department of machinery was expanded into the first Department of machinery (Department of Mechanical Engineering) and the second Department of machinery (Department of Agricultural Mechanical Engineering).

Around 1958, the teaching and research group of mathematics, physics, chemistry, mechanics and physical education was the basic course department. In 1961, it was renamed the Department of basic science.

Under the historical background of vigorously carrying out industrial infrastructure construction in the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China, the teachers and students of the whole college worked hard, and the school has developed rapidly. At that time, colleges and universities all over the country were carrying out the teaching reform of comprehensively learning from the Soviet Union. While learning from the Soviet Union, Nanjing Institute of technology adhered to the reality of China and carried out innovation. The teaching plans and plans put forward by the Department of architecture and the Department of radio were highly praised by brother colleges and universities. In the process of teaching reform, Nanjing Institute of technology has built more laboratories, adjusted the department structure and added a number of new majors. The Department of mechanical engineering founded the earliest major of agricultural machinery, electronic precision machinery and electronic equipment structure in China, and edited the first mechanical textbook "mechanical principles" in China

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From 1956 to 1960, Nanjing Institute of technology successively divided into several departments and established or participated in the construction of four institutions of higher learning. In 1955, the Ministry of higher education of the CPC Central Committee decided to move the Department of radio engineering westward to Chengdu. Together with relevant departments of Jiaotong University and South China Institute of technology, Chengdu Institute of Telecommunication Engineering (now University of Electronic Science and Technology) was established.

With the efforts of Chen Zhang, director of the Department, Wang Haisu, President of the Department, and the Jiangsu provincial Party committee, Premier Zhou Enlai decided in 1956 to transfer 19 backbone teachers from the radio department to participate in the establishment of Chengdian, and the rest of them were stopped moving.

In 1958, the Department of chemical engineering set up Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology (now the main body of Nanjing University of Technology). In the same year, the Department of food industry moved to Wuxi and established Wuxi Institute of light industry (now the main body of Jiangnan University).

In 1960, Nanjing Institute of technology was designated as a national key university. In the same year, Nanjing Agricultural Machinery Institute was established on the basis of the second Department of machinery. The next year, it moved to Zhenjiang and changed its name to Zhenjiang Agricultural Machinery Institute (now the main body of Jiangsu University).

After the Cultural Revolution

In 1978, Nanjing Institute of technology resumed recruiting graduate students. After the implementation of the regulations on academic degrees in 1981, the first batch of students were granted the right to confer bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees. In April 1986, it was approved by the State Council to set up a pilot graduate school.

In May 1988, Nanjing Institute of technology changed its name to Southeast University and began to transform from an engineering university to a comprehensive university with science and engineering as the main subject

. In December of the same year, dongdapukou

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