Information engineering belongs to both information engineering and science. "Information Engineering" English is information engineering, and the major of information engineering is a professional discipline that studies the theory, technology and engineering realization of information processing based on VLSI technology and modern computer technology. This major focuses on the application technology of information system and control system, which plays a very important role in the process of information socialization facing 2 1 century. Information engineering is the general name of technical methods formed by applying the principles of information science to industrial and agricultural production departments.
Information engineering majors train advanced engineering and scientific research talents who have the knowledge of information acquisition, transmission, processing, utilization and control system analysis and design, and can engage in the research, design, integration, manufacturing and operation of information systems and control systems in the information industry and national economic departments. This major is a wide-caliber major, covering three basic majors, such as electronic information engineering, communication engineering and automation (part), in the undergraduate professional catalogue of the Ministry of Education 1998.