Xuzhou institute of technology, located in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is an important node city of the National Belt and Road Initiative, a national historical and cultural city and a central city of Huaihai Economic Zone. School 1959 started and was upgraded to a full-time undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education in 2002. It is a pilot university for the implementation of the national excellent engineer education and training plan, a national integration project of production and education, and an executive vice-chairman unit of the national alliance of newly-built undergraduate colleges and universities.
The school covers an area of 1990.5 mu, with a school building area of 738,300 square meters and teaching units of 16. At present, there are 56 undergraduate majors with 22,000 full-time students, forming a school-running pattern with industry as the main body and the coordinated development of science, engineering, agriculture, literature, economics, management, teaching and art. At present, there are 545 faculty members 1466, including 2 doctors10. At or above the provincial level 1.42 people, including experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, national model teachers, advanced individuals in the national education system, and "experts with outstanding contributions" in Jiangsu Province. The school has always adhered to the localization and application-oriented orientation of running a school, and is determined to practice the new concept of "big application view, big engineering view, big life view and big culture view" (hereinafter referred to as "four views"), and the quality of personnel training and the contribution to service development have been continuously improved.
In view of the problem that students' professional application ability is out of line with their career development needs due to the narrow application concept, application-oriented colleges and universities lead the education and teaching reform with the "big application concept" to realize the effective docking of training specifications with industry needs and teaching standards with industry standards. Approved 12 national teaching projects such as national specialty, national engineering practice education center and national international cooperation in running schools, and 22 provincial projects such as Jiangsu brand specialty, provincial key specialty (class) and provincial experimental teaching demonstration center; Won the Jiangsu Teaching Achievement Award 15, 24 provincial excellent textbooks and key textbooks, 1 passed the international professional certification of engineering education, and 2 majors passed the professional certification (assessment) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
In view of the problem that application-oriented colleges and universities are restricted by narrow "engineering view" and "professional view" and ignore the comprehensiveness and systematicness of real engineering, which leads to the mismatch between students' innovation ability and real engineering demand, the school leads applied research and serves local areas with "big engineering view" and promotes the infiltration and integration between disciplines and majors. Approved 290 scientific research projects at or above the provincial and ministerial level, 95 achievement awards, and newly granted patents 1396; It has five provincial-level key construction disciplines and was approved as the construction unit of master's degree project in Jiangsu Province. Provincial engineering laboratories, key laboratories, engineering technology research centers and other provincial platforms 2 1 each; University Science Park was selected as the national science and technology business incubator. The school was awarded the outstanding contribution unit of enriching the people through science and technology in Jiangsu Province.
In view of the traditional career concept of "learning a major well, mastering a technology and finding a job" and ignoring the problem of students' all-round coordinated development, the school led students' all-round coordinated development with the concept of "big life" and innovatively implemented the "Five Ones" project to improve the quality of college students through projects. Students have been approved for 308 national and provincial innovative training programs for college students, and won 59 national awards1and 54 provincial and ministerial awards 1.054 in various competitions, including high-level awards such as the National Gold Award of "Creating Youth" and the Grand Prize of the International Mathematical Modeling Competition. Five students won the University Student of the Year in Jiangsu Province and the role model of campus youth. The school was elected as the chairman of the National College Bridge Association and the vice chairman of the National College Dragon and Lion Dance Association.
In view of the problems that university culture is not closely combined with students' professional culture and professional accomplishment, and professional culture has no leading role in students' growth, the school leads the construction of university culture with the concept of "grand culture", starts the professional culture construction system in the national application-oriented universities, and builds a 15 professional culture display platform to promote professional culture to enter the classroom, teaching materials, brain and life. He wrote a series of novels such as Letter from the Far East and Boundless Land, and won the "Five Ones" Project Award and the Purple Mountain Literature Award in Jiangsu Province. His literary creation is unique among universities in China. The original drama "The Vast Land" toured the whole province, which had an important impact. Participated in the construction of local cultural brand and core spirit, was approved as the first research base of Jiangsu intangible cultural heritage in northern Jiangsu, and took the lead in opening the library to the society in Xu universities.
Facing the future, the school will closely follow the fundamental task of moral education, speed up the connotation development, focus on improving the level of running schools and the quality of personnel training, innovate in good faith, and strive to build Xuzhou University into a national first-class and distinctive regional Universities of Applied Sciences as soon as possible.