Wuhan Institute Of Technology

（武汉工程大学）

Basic information

City: Wuhan, Hubei
Founded in: 1972
Type: Public University
Number of total students: 23001
Number of international students: 23
Number of faculty: 2152

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About Wuhan

Wuhan, the sprawling capital of Central China’s Hubei province, is a commercial center divided by the Yangtze and Han rivers. The city contains many lakes and parks, including expansive, picturesque East Lake. Nearby, the Hubei Provincial Museum displays relics from the Warring States period, including the Marquis Yi of Zeng’s coffin and bronze musical bells from his 5th-century B.C. tomb. ― Google

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About Wuhan Institute Of Technology

Wuhan Institute of Technology , originally named as Hubei Petrochemical Institute was under the administration of Hubei Province when it was established in June 1972 . It was renamed to Wuhan Institute of Chemical Technology (WICT) and was put under the administration of the former Ministry of Chemical Industry of the Central Government in March 1980 with the permission of the former Ministry of Education . As a result of the readjustment of the management system for colleges in July 1998, WICT has been put under the joint administration of central and local authorities with the stress on the latter. The university was renamed as Wuhan Institute of Technology ( WIT)　with the approval of the Ministry of Education and Hubei Provincial Government in February 2006. In November the same year, WIT received the national evaluation　launched by the Ministry of Education of China ，on undergraduate teaching quality and WIT won an A , the top grade of the evaluation. After 37 years’ endeavor, the university has become a multi-disciplinary university with its own characteristics, fine teaching environment, and advanced research level.

WIT offers different academic programmes to three levels of students including undergraduates, postgraduates, and junior college students who come from 30 provinces , autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government . Presently, there are more than 18,318 full-time students in the university, among whom there are 1,084 postgraduates, 15,363 undergraduates, 1,419 junior college students(students having adult education). Upon their successful completion of schooling , the students are awarded bachelor’s degree or master degree and corresponding diplomas.

There are 14 subordinate schools, one department and one research institute and one independent( attached) college. There are 48 specialties classified into 6 categories, namely engineering, science, management, economics, arts and law, with engineering, management and science as the key disciplines, all of which cover more than 3 subordinate disciplines. Wuhan Institute of Technology boasts 1 national level excellent course, 1 national level distinguishing specialty, 6 Hubei Provincial-level brand specialties , 15 provincial-level key disciplines; among those, 11 specialties have been appraised as Chutian Scholar Disciplines by the provincial government( these disciplines have the right to employ scholars around the world ,which is financially sponsored by the local government). The university also has 24 master degree programs and 5 doctorate degree programmes co-offered with other research institutes and universities , granted by Hubei province.

Now the university has 1793 faculty and staff, among them, there are 1115 teachers and scientific researchers, 530 persons have senior professional titles, 134 professors. There are 964 full-time teachers, of whom 46.5% have senior professional titles. Among them there are 134 professors, 317 associate professors, 167 doctors of philosophy which accounts for 17.3% of the total teaching staff , 521 masters of science and arts, 69.7% of the total number of teachers. Among the teachers, one has been selected into the list of the National Project : “Thousands of Talents”; one has obtained the national outstanding youth fund for science; 2 have been selected as candidates of Talent Project of New Century of the Ministry of Education of China, 29 have been chosen as Hubei High-level Talents of the New Century ; 2 as Famous Teachers of Hubei Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), 5 outstanding teachers above provincial level; 40 teachers enjoy the State Department’s allowance and Provincial government’s allowance; 17 middle-aged and young experts have made outstanding contributions to the provincial level; One is the receiver of Outstanding Youth Fund of the Ministry of Education of China; 6 professors are specially employed as “Chutian Scholar project ” professors, and 1 “Chutian Scholar”.

In order to optimize the structure of the faculty and improve the quality of research and teaching , WIT has employed 8 professors from abroad as special guest professors of “WIT Scholar Project”，offered the positions of “ WIT Talents” to 5 professors. There established 16 undergraduate teaching teams, 8 scientific research teams, and 5 academic innovation teams . In addition, the university has invited 83 famous experts and scholars from home and abroad to be honorary or guest professors, among whom 10 are academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in other countries.

Wuhan Institute of Technology has two campuses: Wuchang and Liufang , and covers 1527mu(252acre), with the constructive area of school building of 74,000 square meters and a fixed asset of RMB790 million yuan. There are 3 400-meter standard fields and track playground, 2 standard swimming pools, 68 playgrounds including basketball, volleyball, badminton and tennis, 50 multimedia classrooms, 17 language laboratories, and 49 teaching-based laboratories. The total value of teaching equipment is worth RMB114 million yuan. The library in WIT, crowned as “the Prominent Library” in the colleges and universities of Hubei and “Document Collection Unit at Research Level of Hubei Province”. preserves all types of books ,all kinds of publications and electronic publications up to 1,18 million volumes and 370,000 volumes respectively.

The university has a research team, full-time and part-time, which is competent efficient and constructive. It has set up a research and design institute with the functions of technology development, engineering design, intelligence and information, analysis of test, 2 key provincial labs, one key research center for social and human sciences, and 16 provincial engineering centers (bases). WIT is qualified for B-Level chemical engineering design, A2 D1 D2 serial Pressure Container design, A-Level Consultation for Chemical Engineering Industry, B-Level unit of assessment of geo hazard prevention and protection, B-Level unit for geo hazard investigation and prospecting, B-Level unit of environment assessment of the Environmental Protection Administration of China, C-Level project design qualification for pollution prevention and control, and C-Level qualification for construction project. Wuhan Institute is also an authorized as Hubei Provincial Information Center of Science and Technology of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Hubei Provincial Quality Supervision and Testing Center for chemical/ petrochemical products .

In recent years, the university has undertaken 2200 various research projects, of which 59 are at national level, 426 at provincial level. The University has won 39 awards of all kinds of technology achievements, among which, one national second-prize award for scientific and technological progress and one national second-prize award for technique invention, 24 provincial awards for natural science, technique invention or scientific and technological progress, 9 provincial teaching achievement awards, and 4 other provincial awards. In recent three years, the scientific funds raised amounts to RMB105 million yuan. The scientific fund and the rising speed both ranked at the top of the provincial Higher institutions. The University Robot Soccer Team has won 6 gold medals in the World Robot Soccer Competitions successively in the past 6 years. More than 5,000 academic papers are published on all kinds of academic journals domestic or abroad and over 600 papers are collected by SCI, EI, ISTP, four most famous international search tools. WIT also has its own publications: Journal Of Wuhan Institute of Technology, and Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and some other science and technology core journals.

WIT attaches great importance to cooperation and exchange with foreign higher education institutions and corporations. The university has established close cooperative relationship with USA MU-Columbia , Alberta University , University of Ottawa, University Paris 13, etc. A large number of experts, scholars and professors have been invited to have come to our university to visit and to do research. As an exchange, WIT has sent 165 teachers to higher education institutions and research institutes of 24 countries and regions to further study , to receive special training or attend international conferences, to visit and to cooperate in scientific research. In recent years, WIT has signed 13 project agreements with foreign counterparts.

Besides, the university has also established close relationship of cooperation with other universities and institutes in China, such as Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northeastern University, Tianjin University, and Zhongnan University. with the joint efforts of these universities or institutes ,WIT offer doctorate programmes.

Advantages

Located in the Wuchang campus ofWIT, the School of International Education(hereinafter referred to as SIE) liesin the center of Optics Valley of China——the National Innovation Model area ofEast Lake, Wuhan. Surrounded by beautiful scenery and quite environment, SIEintegrates extensive cultural atmosphere, convenient transportation with modernteaching and complete living facilities. SIE is also close to the South Lake,enjoying convenient geographic location and exquisite environment.

The School of International Educationcultivates international undergraduate students, graduate students and exchangestudents, and undertakes sino-foreign cooperative education, which is a directteaching unit for all kinds of international cooperation education. Inaccordance with The Higher Education Law of the People’s Republic of Chinaand the spirit of sino-foreign cooperative education by The Ministry ofEducation, SIE comprehensively implements the party’s educational policies,runs schools in accordance with the law, and accepts the management andsupervision of the university and provincial education authorities. The university exercises unified leadership and management over the SIE, making decisions andguidance on major issues such as the school direction, specialty setting, schoolscale and teaching quality. The university is responsible for awardinggraduation certificates and degree certificates to students who have completedtheir studies in accordance with the training program of SIE.

Since 2008, the number of students isincreasing steadily due to the outstanding work of international education inWIT. The scale and level of international education is constantly expanding andincreasing at the same time. For a decade, more than 1000 students from France,Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Ethiopia and othercountries have been to WIT as exchange students or have studied in CivilEngineering, Mechanical Engineering, Business Administration, InternationalTrade and Commerce, Intelligent Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering andTechnology, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Art Design, International Education ofChinese Language, Food Engineering, Environmental Engineering and otherpreponderant science and arts disciplines.

Under a win-winstrategy of opening-up, WIT has actively participated in the diversifiedinternational education exchanges, holding short-termexchange programs with foreign universities, such as Georgia Gwinnet College inthe United States, Curtin University in Australia, University of Malaya inMalaysia and Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore. The universityhas also established a stable communication and cooperation in joint colleges,exchange programs of teachers and students and joint researches with more than40 universities and research institutions in the United States, Britain,France, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore,Thailand, South Africa and other countries. Wearecommittedto improving the people’s understanding of Chinese language and culture,promoting the development of cultural diversity, and contributing to a moreharmonious world.

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