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Henan Urban Construction College is a provincial undergraduate college which focuses on engineering, features urban construction, and has the coordinated development of engineering, management, science, literature, law and economics. Its predecessor was Pingdingshan Urban Construction Environmental Protection School founded in 1983 and Wuhan Urban Construction College Henan Branch established in 1985. In 1993, Wuhan Urban Construction College Henan Branch was transformed into Henan Urban Construction College; In April 2, the two schools merged to form a new Henan Urban Construction College; In March 22, it was upgraded to an undergraduate college-Pingdingshan Institute of Technology with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In November 28, it was renamed Henan Urban Construction College with the approval of the Ministry of Education. Since its establishment 25 years ago, * * * has trained more than 3, professional and technical personnel at all levels for the country.
the school is located in Pingdingshan, an excellent tourist city in China. There are beautiful natural scenery, many places of interest and historical sites, and profound cultural heritage, including not only the Neolithic Peiligang culture, Yangshao culture and Longshan cultural sites in primitive society, but also the Shiren Mountain scenic area with mountainous peaks, the tomb of the great writer Su Shi and his son in the Song Dynasty, and the best-preserved county government in Ye County in the Ming Dynasty. There are many outstanding people here, such as Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang in the Spring and Autumn Period, Mozi in the Warring States Period, Niu Hao, a famous anti-gold star in the Southern Song Dynasty, Lvyuan Li, who wrote Qi Lu Deng in the Qing Dynasty, and Fan Zhongxiu, a famous Republican who was highly praised by Sun Yat-sen, etc.
the school covers an area of more than 1,6 mu, with a building area of more than 58, square meters. The main campus is located in the new urban area of Pingdingshan City, near the rippling white turtle lake. The campus buildings are lined with pavilions and the environment is beautiful and pleasant. In 27, it was named as a provincial garden unit. The school enrolls students from 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, with more than 15,3 full-time students. There are departments of civil and materials engineering, environment and municipal engineering, urban planning and architecture, building environment and energy, building engineering management, surveying and mapping and urban space, computer science and engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, traffic engineering, chemistry and chemical engineering, bioengineering, business administration, mathematics and physics, basic teaching, foreign languages, law, ideological and political education, physical education and continuing education. There are 36 undergraduate majors and 1 specialist majors, covering six major disciplines, basically forming a professional system of urban construction, including three national-level teaching reform pilot majors and one provincial-level specialty. The library has a collection of 1.8 million volumes and 16 databases of various Chinese and foreign documents, which is fully open and automated. It has 85, square meters of various sports fields and university student activity centers and other perfect cultural and sports facilities.
The school has 1,8 teaching staff, including nearly 8 full-time teachers, including 55 professors, 239 associate professors and 411 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees. There are 43 provincial outstanding experts, provincial academic and technical leaders, provincial outstanding teachers and provincial top-notch professional and technical talents. More than 4 international and domestic famous scholars, academicians and experts are also employed as part-time professors or visiting professors.
The school has always adhered to the cultivation of talents as the foundation, constantly strengthened the central position of undergraduate teaching, and actively implemented the "six projects" of teaching quality construction, and achieved outstanding results. In recent years, 21 provincial-level educational reform projects and educational research achievements have been completed, and 5 first prizes and 11 second prizes have been won. Three courses were rated as provincial-level quality courses, and four course courseware won awards in the national competition. He was awarded seven times in the national and provincial teaching skill competitions, among which he won the only first prize in Henan universities in the 28 National Teaching Competition for Young Teachers of Surveying and Mapping. Nine textbooks were included in the national 11th Five-Year Plan. The construction of teaching quality has promoted the steady improvement of school education and teaching quality. In 28, the graduate admission rate of undergraduate graduates reached 15%, and some majors reached 33%. In the second "Structural Mechanics Competition" for civil engineering majors in universities in Central South China, the total score of our college ranked first in the universities in the province. Graduates are widely welcomed by employers, and the employment rate is in the forefront of similar universities in the province. Our hospital was identified as a "first-class national construction training institution" by the Ministry of Construction.
The school has always attached importance to scientific research and discipline construction, which is regarded as the key to improve the level of running a school and cultivate core competitiveness. In recent years, the school has undertaken more than 42 national, provincial and municipal vertical scientific research projects and won 279 awards at all levels. Publicly published more than 3,2 academic papers, including 1,276 core journals and publications of international important retrieval institutions such as SCI, EI and ISTP; Published 625 textbooks and monographs, and obtained 7 national patents. The existing teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment are nearly 1 million yuan, and there are 68 laboratories (centers), 1 provincial key discipline, 1 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center and 1 provincial engineering technology research center.
with the motto of "being virtuous, being realistic, being knowledgeable and thinking carefully", the school firmly establishes the educational concept of educating people first and putting moral education first, earnestly pays attention to the three major projects of party building, talent building and quality building, and strives to build a harmonious campus, and has achieved remarkable results. It has been awarded successively as a civilized unit in Henan Province, a civilized school in Henan Province, an advanced grassroots party organization in colleges and universities in Henan Province, an advanced unit in ideological and moral construction in Henan Province, and a campus in Henan Province.
judging the situation, the party and government leading group of the new school put forward the working ideas of "five general plans for running the school" and "adhering to one main line, strengthening two major constructions and realizing three major goals", which comprehensively opened a new era of "building a university with urban construction characteristics and cultivating comprehensive innovative talents". The faculty, students and staff of the whole hospital unite and cooperate, seek development, and strive hard to build Henan Urban Construction College into a high-level urban construction university based in Henan, facing the whole country, with distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages.