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Dalian University covers an area of ??1.097 million square meters. In October 1978, the Luda Branch of Dalian Institute of Technology was established and later renamed Dalian Branch of Dalian Institute of Technology. In November 1983, Dalian Branch of Dalian Institute of Technology was renamed Dalian University. In October 1987, it merged with Dalian Normal School and Dalian Health School to form what is now Dalian University.

School Introduction

Dalian University, referred to as Lianda, is located in the romantic city of Dalian, Liaoning Province. It is a university selected for the Ministry of Education’s Outstanding Teacher Training Program and the National College Student Cultural Quality Education Base. The first batch of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance member units.

The history of Dalian University can be traced back to Dalian University, which was founded in April 1949. In July 1950, the organizational structure of Dalian University was revoked. In October 1978, the Dalian Institute of Technology’s Lvda Branch was established, which later became Dalian University. Branch of the Institute of Technology, Dalian Branch of Dalian Institute of Technology was independently run and renamed Dalian University in November 1983), Guandong Grammar Vocational School was established in March 1948 (later Dalian Normal College), Luda City Health was established in October 1950 School (later Dalian Health School). In October 1987, Dalian University, Dalian Normal College, and Dalian Health School merged into one to form the new Dalian University. Dalian University has an engineering college, a normal college, and a medical college. In December 2008, Dalian Railway Health School was merged into Dalian University.

Faculties and Majors

As of May 2020, the school has 29 colleges, 63 undergraduate majors, and 2 tertiary-A affiliated hospitals.

Faculty

As of May 2020, the school currently has more than 6,400 faculty members (including 2 affiliated hospitals). The school has more than 1,600 faculty and staff, including 171 senior vocational teachers, 19 doctoral supervisors, 461 teachers with doctorate degrees, and 981 full-time teachers. The school adheres to the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, implements the "Jinpu Scholars" series of programs, and vigorously strengthens the function of "Dalian Talent Reserve Base". The school has 1 Yangtze River Scholar, 2 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 1 winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 1 hundred-level candidate for the National “Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project”, 11 experts with special government allowances from the State Council, and national outstanding teachers. 1 person, 2 Ministry of Education New Century Talents, 1 Liaoning Provincial Climbing Scholar, 9 Liaoning Distinguished Professors, and 17 Provincial University Teaching Teacher Award winners.

There are 23 candidates for the 100-level talent project of Liaoning Province, 3 outstanding teachers of Liaoning Province, 7 outstanding experts of Liaoning Province, 2 top-notch young talents of Liaoning Province’s “Xingliao Talent Plan”, and 2 outstanding talents of Liaoning Province. There are 2 Huang Danian-style teacher teams in colleges and universities, 8 teachers are elected as members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, and 39 teachers are elected as members of the Undergraduate Teaching Steering Committee of Provincial Colleges and Universities.

Discipline Construction

As of March 2019, Dalian University currently has 20 first-level academic master’s degree awarding points, 4 second-level academic master’s degree awarding points, and 6 professional master’s degrees. Degree awarding point. The school has 7 provincial key (cultivation) disciplines, 8 disciplines have been selected as disciplines in Liaoning Province’s “Project to Enhance the Core Competitiveness of Higher Education Institutions and Characteristic Disciplines Construction Project”, 2 disciplines have been selected as first-class characteristic disciplines in Liaoning Province, and 1 discipline has been selected into Liaoning Province. Provincial first-class discipline.

First-class discipline in Liaoning Province (1): Software Engineering.

Key disciplines in colleges and universities in Liaoning Province (4): specialized history, organic chemistry, computer application technology, and surgery.

Key training disciplines in universities in Liaoning Province (3): mechanical manufacturing and automation, structural engineering, and enterprise management.

Liaoning Province’s high-level key disciplines (3): Chemistry, Management Science and Engineering, Surgery (Extraorthopedics).

Liaoning Province’s advantageous and characteristic key disciplines (5): specialized history, computer application technology, mechanical manufacturing and automation, structural engineering, and enterprise management.

Teaching Construction

As of March 2018, the school has 6 national-level specialty majors and excellence plan projects, 1 national college student quality education base, and a national-level experimental teaching demonstration center 1, 1 national high-quality online open course, 1 national bilingual demonstration course, 3 national high-quality open video courses, 2 national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" teaching materials, 1 national practical education base; it has There are 12 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers (including construction units) and provincial virtual simulation experimental centers, 7 provincial off-campus practical education bases, provincial model majors, specialty majors, brand majors, comprehensive reform pilot majors, and key support majors. , 22 engineering talent training model reform pilot majors, transformation development pilot majors, and internationalization pilot majors, 27 provincial quality courses, and 7 provincial "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" textbooks. It is the provincial microelectronics communications and IT industry talent Training and training base. Among them, two majors, Computer Science and Technology and Nursing, have been rated as six-star majors (highest level in the world and top major in China).

In the fourth national discipline evaluation, the software engineering discipline was selected as a first-class discipline in Liaoning Province. It cooperates with Dalian University of Technology in cross-school selection of undergraduate courses and jointly trains doctoral students.

Construction points for specialty majors in national universities (5): Nursing (second batch), primary education (third batch), bioengineering (fourth batch), mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, chemical engineering and Craftsmanship (six batches).

National Quality Education Base for College Students (1): Dalian University National Cultural Quality Education Base for College Students (Second Batch).

National University Experimental Demonstration Center (1): Basic Physics Experimental Demonstration Center.

Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center (including construction) (7): Dalian University Biological Experimental Teaching Center, Nursing Experimental Training Teaching Center, Mechanical Engineering Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Medical Laboratory Experimental Teaching Center, etc. .

National first-class professional construction sites (7): nursing, Chinese language and literature, Japanese, chemistry, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, clinical medicine, and medical testing technology.

Model majors in Liaoning Province (7): Japanese, medical testing, primary education, nursing, bioengineering, chemical engineering and technology, mechanical design, manufacturing and automation.

Specialty majors in Liaoning Province (2): medical testing, Japanese.

Liaoning Province Comprehensive Reform Pilot Major (1): Civil Engineering.

National first-class undergraduate courses (6 courses): Exploration and Discovery of the Universe, Modern Technology and the Future of Humanity, Chinese Characters and Traditional Chinese Culture, Western Classical Civilization, Regional Anatomy of the Human Body, and Virtual Simulation of Natural Childbirth and Delivery Experimental teaching project.

Excellent courses in Liaoning Province (20 courses): Basics of Nursing, Principles of Chemical Engineering, Introduction to Modern Science and Technology, College English, Biochemistry, Hydraulic Transmission, Engineering Mechanics, General Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry and genetic engineering, etc.

Scientific Research Platform

As of March 2018, the school has 1 postdoctoral research workstation, 1 academician workstation, 1 Ministry of Education innovation team and 6 Liaoning Province innovation teams. There are 3 national and local joint engineering laboratories, 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, 1 major science and technology platform of Liaoning Provincial universities, 2 Liaoning Provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers, and 35 provincial key laboratories, engineering technology centers and humanities Key social science research bases, etc.

Scientific Research Achievements

According to information on the school’s official website in March 2018, the school has undertaken 225 national-level projects in the past five years, including major research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and national outstanding projects. 1 Youth Science Fund Project and 1 National Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project; won 1 National Natural Science Second Prize, 1 Second Prize for Technical Invention, and 3 Second Prizes for Scientific and Technological Progress; won the First Prize of Liaoning Province Technical Invention Award in 2016 , first prize of Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award; published more than 1,000 papers retrieved by SCI, SSCI, EI, and CSSCI; and authorized 335 invention patents.

Collection resources

As of the end of 2016, Dalian University Library has 1.485 million books, 763 journals, 114 newspapers; 340,000 electronic books, and 1.3 Chinese and foreign electronic journals There are more than 10,000 kinds of databases, including 21 kinds of Chinese databases and 15 kinds of foreign language databases; there are more than 20,000 ancient book resources and school-based resources.

International Exchange

The school pays attention to the internationalization of education, actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation, and attracts overseas intelligence to serve our school and Dalian City. It has established friendly cooperative relations with 134 universities, scientific research institutions and well-known enterprises in 18 countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and South Korea, and has carried out Sino-foreign cooperative education and joint training of teachers and graduate students with many universities. , short-term student exchanges and other international talent cultivation cooperation, and has carried out international scientific research cooperation, think tank cooperation, etc. with multiple overseas teams. Every year, a group of well-known overseas experts are invited to our school for exchanges, and some experts are hired as visiting professors. The school actively responded to the call of the “Belt and Road Initiative” and undertook the construction of the “Ministry of Education Research Center for Indian Ocean Rim Island Countries” and established Confucius Institutes at the University of Seychelles and the University of Comoros. The school's educational content has been continuously enriched, and its international reputation and influence have been continuously improved, which has also contributed to the rapid development of Dalian's international city construction.