1. Where is Fujian Institute of Engineering?
The address of Fujian Institute of Engineering is No. 33, Xuefu South Road, University New District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. The school is a full-time general undergraduate program organized by the Fujian Provincial People's Government. The school is one of the first batch of pilot universities for the Education and Training Plan for Excellent Engineers of the Ministry of Education and a key university in Fujian Province. 2. Introduction to Fujian Institute of Engineering
Fujian Institute of Engineering is located in Fuzhou, a famous historical and cultural city known as the gateway to the “Maritime Silk Road”. The school originated from the "Cangxia Jingshe" founded in 1896 by the famous rural sages Chen Bi, Sun Baojin, and Li Jun in the late Qing Dynasty, the famous Fujian gentry Lin Shu, and the last imperial teacher Chen Baochen, which pioneered the new modern education in Fuzhou. In the long history of running a school, the school has kept pace with the development of the times and is connected with the destiny of the nation. Industrial education began in 1908, with railway and telegraph subjects opened. Before liberation, it was the prestigious "Fujian Senior Engineer" and a banner for vocational education in Fujian and even the country. In 1953, the school was divided into Fuzhou Industrial School of the Ministry of Light Industry and Fuzhou Architectural Engineering School. Afterwards, the two schools changed their names several times. In 2000, Fujian Advanced Industrial College merged with Fujian China Vocational University established in 1985 to form Fujian Vocational and Technical College. In 2002, Fujian Architecture College and Fujian Vocational and Technical College merged and were upgraded to Fujian Engineering College. In 2013, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council as a master's degree authorizing unit, and was identified as a key construction university in Fujian Province.
Over the past 120 years of running the school, the school has adhered to the spirit of the school motto of “Truthfulness, Sincerity, Diligence, and Courage”, continuously inherited and innovated, and condensed and formed a school-running characteristic centered on the layout of “major mechanical and electrical, major civil engineering” disciplines, and has now developed It has become an applied undergraduate university with engineering as its main focus and coordinated development of engineering, management, liberal arts, science, economics, law, art and other disciplines. It has successively provided more than 200,000 talents at all levels and various types to the society, and is known as the "Fujian" Whampoa Military Academy of the construction industry" and "the cradle of mechanical and electrical engineers".
The school currently has campuses in Qishan, Eanxi, Pudong, and Tongpan, covering a total area of ??136.88 hectares, a school building area of ??688,900 square meters, a total fixed assets value of 1.653 billion yuan, and teaching and scientific research equipment. With a total value of 390 million yuan, the library has a collection of 2.0903 million paper books and 1.9872 million electronic books. It has basically built a modern campus with comprehensive information coverage and an increasingly beautiful environment.
There are currently 23,171 full-time students, 404 postgraduate students (including foreign students), 15 colleges, and 59 undergraduate majors, covering engineering, management, literature, science, economics, It has 7 disciplines including law and art, 1 provincial key discipline, 5 provincial first-level key disciplines, 4 first-level academic master’s degree-authorizing disciplines, and 3 professional master’s degree authorization points.
There are currently 1,945 faculty and staff, including 539 with senior professional titles, 2 nationally appointed experts, 2 candidates for the National Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project, and 2 candidates for the Ministry of Education’s New Century Excellent Talent Support Program. They enjoy the benefits of the State Council Government There are 12 experts with special allowances, 12 selected for provincial “*” and other provincial talent projects, 14 Minjiang scholars, and 10 provincial teaching and scientific and technological innovation teams. More than 300 well-known experts at home and abroad, including Y.K. Lin, academician of the American Academy of Engineering, Shen Zhiyun, academician of both academies, Sun Jun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ruan Xueyu, Liu Baochen, Chen Qingquan, Chen Yijian, Guo Konghui, Hou Li'an, Yang Yongbin and other academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering are honorary professors and distinguished professors , part-time professors and visiting professors.
The school adheres to the orientation of "work-oriented, application-oriented and local", plays a good role in the "local brand", "engineering brand" and "grassroots brand", and closely follows the leading industries and strategic emerging industries of Fujian Province. Industrial development, building professional clusters focusing on service equipment manufacturing, electronic information, construction industry, modern transportation, and ecological and environmental protection industries. The school is one of the first batch of pilot universities for the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education. It currently has 6 national-level teaching practice platforms, 3 national-level specialty majors, 1 national-level undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot major, and a national-level major. There are 2 exclusive courses for high-quality resources and 1 second prize for national higher education teaching achievements.
Won 9 provincial teaching achievement awards in 2017 and 2018. Since 2017, there have been 27 provincial-level high-quality online open courses. The "Electronic Information and Electrical Technology Experiment Center" was selected as a national experimental teaching demonstration center, and the "Civil Engineering Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching Center" was selected as a national virtual simulation experimental teaching center. All six majors in civil engineering have passed professional assessment and certification by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. Two majors, including mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, and materials science and engineering, have passed the engineering education professional certification of the Ministry of Education. Since 2012, it has undertaken 1,812 scientific research projects at national, provincial and ministerial levels. Participated in 4 major national 863 projects and national science and technology support plan projects; 72 National Natural Science Foundation and Humanities and Social Science Fund projects; presided over 55 major (key) scientific research projects in Fujian Province; won 1 second prize of the National Technology Invention Award, 2 third prizes of the 7th Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievements Award of the Ministry of Education, 26 Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Awards and Fujian Provincial Social Science Outstanding Achievement Awards, including 6 first prizes of the Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Awards; 822 authorized patents items, including 256 invention patents.
In the past five years, students have won 3,065 awards of various types in innovation, entrepreneurship and subject competitions at or above the provincial level, including 69 at the international level and 1,364 at the national level. Students have obtained 150 patent authorizations. Won the 2018 Red Dot Concept Design Award and the Silver Award of the 4th China “Internet” College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. It has won a total of 29 gold, silver and bronze awards in the national and provincial "Challenge Cup" college students' extracurricular academic science and technology works and innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. The innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students was implemented and 517 projects were approved at or above the provincial level, including 197 at the national level. The school was rated as "National Typical Experience University in Deepening Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform" and ranked among the "Top 100 National Undergraduate Youth League Entrepreneurship Education Work Index". The school currently has 130 student clubs of various types, among which the Green Spark Environmental Protection Association was awarded the "Top 100 National Societies" and the KAB Club was awarded the "Top 100 Entrepreneurial Societies in the National Colleges and Universities". The school has repeatedly achieved great results in national and provincial cultural and sports competitions, winning more than 300 awards of various types. It won the "Principal's Cup" in the 4th National College Student Art Exhibition; it won the first prize in the 5th Fujian Provincial College Student Art Festival. 3 items, 5 second prizes, the school won the Organization Award; the bronze medal in the 4th Fujian Dance "Lily Award" Professional Dance Competition, the top 8 in the country for "The Strongest Voice of Youth"; the work "Lin Shu Culture" was showcased "Context" won the gold medal in the 2nd Cross-Strait College Student Dance Competition. The school men’s basketball team has become the only team to break into the top 5 of the Sunshine Group of the National College Basketball League for four consecutive years. It has won the championship of Group A of the College Student Division of the Provincial Games for two consecutive years. The orienteering team, the cheerleading team, The skipping team, swimming team, and track and field team also won gold and silver in national, provincial and various competitions.
Graduates are very popular, with the employment rate remaining above 97% and the first-time contract signing rate above 80%, firmly ranking among the top universities in Fujian Province.
Since 2017, the school has actively adapted to the new requirements for the training of applied talents and scientific research put forward by new technologies, new business formats, new industries, and new models, focusing on strengthening the construction of teaching and research platforms oriented to the forefront of industry, ***There are 30 scientific research and innovation platforms at provincial and ministerial levels or above. At the same time, taking the construction of "new engineering" as an opportunity, we will strive to promote in-depth cooperation with local governments, industry authorities, industry enterprises, scientific research institutes, etc., set up experimental classes for engineers in the modern equipment manufacturing industry, information industry, and construction industry, and work with industry leading enterprises Establish the School of Modern Construction Industry, the School of Smart Water Industry, and the School of Intelligent Manufacturing Industry.
The school adheres to open education and actively introduces high-quality educational resources. It has established close relationships with dozens of universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Malaysia and other countries, as well as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao in my country. The cooperative relationship is a project unit contracted by the China Scholarship Council. Recommended exchange programs include: China Scholarship Council Outstanding Undergraduate International Exchange Program, "Sino-US Talent Training Plan" 121 Double Degree Program, Sino-German University Cooperation Program to Cultivate Master's Diploma German Engineers, etc.; Fujian-based programs approved by the Provincial Department of Education Exchange student programs at cooperative universities in Taiwan, internship exchange programs at famous multinational companies in Hong Kong, etc.
It began to recruit foreign students in 2012, and in 2013 it became a receiving institution for international students studying in China under the Chinese Government Scholarship.
The profound cultural heritage, long history of running a school, and unremitting pursuit of innovation are the inexhaustible driving force for Fujian Institute of Technology to forge ahead and forge ahead. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the school established the "three major goals" of building a high-level demonstration application-oriented university, changing its name to a "university", and promoting the construction of a doctoral degree authorization project and training unit. The school will adhere to its mission of serving regional economic and social development, unswervingly promote connotative development, and continuously improve the quality of talent training and school running.