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Introduction to the Civil Aviation University of China (Address: Tianjin)
1. Historical evolution
The Civil Aviation University of China is the It is an institution of higher learning directly under the Civil Aviation Administration of China that focuses on cultivating advanced civil aviation engineering technology and management talents. The school’s predecessor was the Second Civil Aviation School of the Civil Aviation Bureau of the People’s Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People’s Government, which was established on September 25, 1951. On December 15, 1958, the school was renamed China Civil Aviation Advanced Aviation School. On June 21, 1963, the China Civil Aviation Mechanical College was merged and established, and was included in the sequence of ordinary colleges and universities. On August 10, 1981, the school was renamed Civil Aviation College of China. On May 30, 2006, the school was renamed Civil Aviation University of China. In September 2011, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the school's founding, Comrade Zhang Dejiang, then Vice Premier of the State Council, came to inspect the school and proposed the goal of building the school into a "world-renowned civil aviation institution of higher learning with international reputation."
After 65 years of pioneering and enterprising, the school has become an institution of higher learning with a complete range of civil aviation disciplines. It is known as the cradle of China’s civil aviation talents, the center of scientific and technological research, and the window for international cultural exchanges.
2. School conditions
The school covers a total area of ??1.717 million square meters and a total construction area of ??783,000 square meters. Among them, the school headquarters is located next to Tianjin Binhai International Airport, covering an area of ??1.367 million square meters and a construction area of ??755,000 square meters. In addition, there are three flight training colleges: Chaoyang Flight College, Inner Mongolia Flight College, and Xinjiang Tianxiang Aviation College.
The school has 2 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national-level virtual simulation experiment center, 1 national model joint training base for engineering degree postgraduates, and 9 Tianjin experimental teaching demonstration centers. Tianjin has 2 virtual simulation experiment centers, 16 key laboratories (or scientific research bases) at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, and 15 innovation and entrepreneurship bases for college students. The school has 53 aircraft for teaching and training of various types, 21 aircraft for aircraft maintenance practice, 116 sets of training simulators/devices of various types, and 59 aircraft engines of various types. The school library currently has a collection of 1.776 million paper books, 2.3 million electronic books, 12,292 electronic journals, and 87 online databases; the school library has cooperated with aviation manufacturing companies to build data on Airbus, Boeing, and Safran The office has opened Boeing Online and Airbus Online websites, allowing direct access to relevant foreign technical information.
During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the school will build a new campus in Tianjin Future Science and Technology City in Ninghe District, Tianjin, covering an area of ??810,000 square meters, with a planned construction area of ??180,000 square meters in the first phase.
3. Disciplines and Majors
The school has 12 first-level master's degree programs in 6 disciplines: engineering, management, management, economics, liberal arts, and law. It has master's degrees in engineering, business administration There are 4 professional master's degree programs including Master of Arts (MBA), Master of Laws, and Master of Translation, including 7 professional master's degree programs in engineering. The school currently offers 29 undergraduate majors, covering the main business areas of civil aviation.
The school vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the school by disciplines, deepens the construction of professional connotation, and strives to create brand advantage majors, forming national-level specialty majors, national-level major comprehensive reform pilot majors, national excellent pilot majors, and Tianjin brand Traditional advantageous professional groups represented by majors and CDIO pilot majors. Among them, three majors, including aircraft power engineering, transportation, and flight technology, are national-level specialty majors: aircraft power engineering, transportation, flight technology, electrical engineering and automation, electronic information engineering, aircraft manufacturing engineering, communications engineering, and computer science. Nine majors including technology and business administration (air transportation) are Tianjin brand majors, and electronic information engineering is a CDIO pilot major, and will gradually be radiated and promoted to five engineering majors such as oil and gas storage and transportation engineering.
IV. Teaching staff
The school currently has 1,289 full-time teachers, including 1 recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 1 National Talent Project, and the National “Ten Thousand Talents Plan” "There is one leading talent in scientific and technological innovation, 29 people enjoying special allowances from the State Council, 4 specially appointed experts in civil aviation, 11 young and middle-aged leaders in civil aviation, and 8 famous teachers in Tianjin.
The school actively promotes the strategy of revitalizing the school with talents, and has successively implemented the "Blue Sky Scholar Distinguished Professor Program" and "Blue Sky Scholar Lecture Professor Program" with the goal of cultivating academic leaders and their academic teams with greater influence. The "Blue Sky Teaching Master Training Program" aims at cultivating a group of national, provincial and ministerial level famous teachers, the "Blue Sky Young Scholars Program" aims at introducing and cultivating young academic leaders, and the "Blue Sky Teaching Famous Teachers Program" aims at cultivating reserve young academic leaders. "Young Key Teacher Training Program" and so on.
The school leverages the advantages of industry colleges and universities to build a closely coupled mechanism of "government, industry, and academia" and establish a relatively stable team of external teachers with rich practical experience to meet the needs of cultivating applied talents. Among the school's teaching staff, there are 404 "double-qualified" teachers with civil aviation-related job qualification certificates or practical experience in civil aviation enterprises, 79 experimental technicians, and 204 part-time teachers who are enterprise engineering technicians with rich practical experience.
5. Talent training
The school currently has 25,365 full-time students, including 18,179 undergraduates, 1,834 graduate students, 5,316 vocational students, and 36 preparatory and international students. To date, it has trained more than 100,000 graduates, about 80% of whom are engaged in civil aviation-related jobs, accounting for one-third of the key engineering, technical and management talents in my country's civil aviation industry. They have made outstanding contributions to the development of civil aviation in various positions. .
Since its establishment, the school has firmly established the school-running philosophy that talent cultivation is the fundamental task, teaching is the central task, and quality improvement is the eternal theme. It adheres to the school-running philosophy of "students first, scholars first, and study style first". philosophy, adhere to the school-running orientation of "based on civil aviation, serve the society, and face the world", carry forward the school spirit of "strictness and upwardness" and the study style of "dedication, proficiency, rigor, and innovation", forming a "advocating rigor, applying ability and applying" The characteristics of running a school have established the goal of cultivating high-quality applied talents. It was awarded excellent in the 2005 evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education.
In recent years, the school has successively issued the "Outline of the Education and Teaching Reform and Development Plan of the Civil Aviation University of China (2011-2020)" and the "Undergraduate Teaching Quality Improvement Plan of the Civil Aviation University of China (2016-2020)". A series of documents to strengthen the status of the teaching center and improve the quality of talent training. Among them, the project "Research and Practice on a Comprehensive Practical Teaching Platform Facing the Talent Needs of the "New Generation National Air Traffic Control System"" won the second prize for national teaching achievements in 2014. In the past three years, students have won 13 international awards and national awards in various subject competitions such as the National Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling Competition, the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition, the American International Mathematical Modeling Competition, and the "Beidou Cup" National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition. There are 254 national awards and more than 1,000 provincial and ministerial awards. The school’s men’s basketball team won the national runner-up in the 17th CUBA and the third runner-up in the 18th CUBA. The Shuttlecock Association has won the Tianjin special competition championship for ten consecutive years. In the past three years, it has won 6 national-level awards in sports, including provincial and ministerial level awards. 60 items were awarded.
The quality of the school’s students and the employment rate of graduates have always ranked among the top universities in the country. In the past three years, despite the slight increase in enrollment, the average undergraduate admission score (excluding special admissions such as flight technology) has increased year by year, from 32 points in 2014 to 50 points in 2016; exceeding one The proportion of students with scores of 70 or above in this line increased from 7% to 26%. According to the "2016 Chinese College Graduates Salary Ranking" released by the professional job search website iPIN.com, the average monthly salary of the school's undergraduates five years after graduation has remained the 82nd among domestic universities for two consecutive years; the National Outstanding Youth Fund released by China Youth Online The school ranks 54th in the rankings of undergraduate institutions.
The school has an aircraft maintenance license examination center, a flight dispatcher training center, an engineering technology training center, a 147 school, an ICAO flight English training center, a Chinese civil aviation pilot license examination center, and a Chinese civil aviation pilot license examination center. ICAO English Test Center and other international and domestic authorized training and examination institutions undertake qualification training for various positions such as civil aviation maintenance, air traffic control, flight, airport, transportation, flight attendants, etc., and provide various international-level technical and management training for China's civil aviation. .
6. Scientific research
In recent years, the school has undertaken projects including the National High-tech Research Program 863 Program (major and key projects), the National Key Basic Research Development Program 973 Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China Science Foundation (key and general projects of the Outstanding Youth Fund), National Soft Science and many other national-level scientific research projects. The "Wide Area Aviation Safety Monitoring Technology and Application" project of the national key R&D plan spearheaded by the school has become the first batch of national key R&D plan projects launched after the "13th Five-Year Plan" national scientific research system reform. The total project funding is 149 million yuan, of which China allocated 90 million yuan.
The school has continuously contributed high-level scientific research results to society, solving practical problems in the development of the industry and providing strong support for the development of the industry. . During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the school's scientific research funding totaled 541 million yuan, and it was approved for 181 national-level projects and 175 provincial and ministerial-level projects; 794 SCI and EI indexed papers, 236 authorized patents, provincial and ministerial projects 31 level scientific research awards.
The school focuses on technology application and promotes the transformation of achievements. Hangda Technology Company (University Science and Technology Park) has obtained national-level technology business incubator qualifications and became the first batch of national-level "nursery-incubator-accelerator" technology innovation incubation chain It has also been recognized as a national-level maker space and has incubated more than 300 entrepreneurial projects. It now has 127 technology-based enterprises and has initially formed an integrated mechanism of "industry, academia and research".
7. Cooperation and exchanges
The school adapts to the international characteristics of the civil aviation industry, implements internationalization strategies, introduces high-quality overseas resources through cooperative education and other methods, and continuously improves its international education capabilities and level. The school co-founded the China-European Institute of Aeronautical Engineers with the French Aerospace University Group, and systematically introduced the French engineering education model. In 2013, it obtained the highest level certification from the French Engineering Qualification Council (CTI), and also obtained the European Master of Science and Engineering certification. It became the first overseas school in the history of French engineering qualifications to obtain the highest level certification upon first application. In 2016, Vice Premier of the State Council Liu Yandong personally awarded the school the certificate of “Excellent Project of Sino-French University Cooperation”.
The school has launched a "3+1+1" joint undergraduate and master's talent training project with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the United States; it has also cooperated with Airways International of New Zealand and Massey University cooperates to carry out study tour programs in New Zealand; cooperates with the China University of Science and Technology in Taiwan to send students to each other's institutions to learn aviation maintenance technology; cooperates with EVA Air in Taiwan to select students majoring in transportation to Taiwan internship. The school maintains long-term cooperative relationships with important organizations and institutions in the international civil aviation community such as the International Civil Aviation Organization and the United States Federal Aviation Administration; it also maintains long-term cooperative relationships with internationally advanced aviation manufacturing companies such as Boeing Company in the United States and Airbus Company in Europe, as well as with United Airlines and FedEx Express in the United States. The company has established long-term cooperative relationships with well-known air transport companies.
The school initiated the establishment of China Air Transport Association, China Aviation Maintenance Association, General Aviation Association and other organizations, and plays an increasingly important role in the organizational construction of civil aviation professional associations.
In October 2012, the school held the First Party Congress of the Civil Aviation University of China and proposed medium- and long-term development goals: by 2020, comprehensively improve the quality of talent training, scientific research levels, social service capabilities, and cultural inheritance Strength and internationalization, the comprehensive strength has been significantly enhanced, it will play a supporting and leading role in the development of China's civil aviation at a higher level, and build the school into a high-level, international, teaching and research civil aviation university; during 2025-2030, it will The school is built to become a world-renowned civil aviation institution of higher learning with international reputation.
This data comes from the Civil Aviation University of China and is for reference only. In addition: Sichuan Flight College and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics are both good choices