Wuhan University of Science and Technology is a local high-level university jointly established by Hubei Provincial People's Government, Ministry of Education, Baosteel, Angang, Wuhan Iron and Steel, Shougang, MCC and Sinosteel, and was selected as the national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest". The history of the school can be traced back to the craft school founded by Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Huguang in the late Qing Dynasty in 1898. After the inheritance and development of Hubei Secondary Industrial School, Hubei First-class Industrial School, Hanyang Senior Industrial Vocational School, Wuchang Senior Industrial School, Zhongnan Iron and Steel Industrial School and Wuchang Iron and Steel Industrial School, Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute was established on 1958 to offer undergraduate education. 65438-0995 Wuhan Institute of Iron and Steel, Wuhan Institute of Architecture and Wuhan Metallurgical Medical College under the former Ministry of Metallurgy merged to form Wuhan University of Metallurgical Technology. 1998 according to the needs of the reform of the national higher education management system, the school became the first batch of transfer institutions to implement the "joint construction of the central and local governments, mainly managed by the Hubei Provincial People's Government". 1999 was renamed Wuhan University of Science and Technology. The school has been renamed and moved several times, and the love of steel and iron is in the same strain. The concept of advocating truth is consistent, forming a profound cultural heritage, distinctive school-running characteristics and outstanding academic advantages. \x0d\ The school has a total campus area of1803,900 square meters and a building area of1039,400 square meters, with more than 30,000 full-time students of all kinds. The school has good conditions for running a school and has a team of teachers with reasonable structure, excellent academic skills and noble ethics. 2,580 faculty members, including full-time teachers 17 12; The proportion of teachers with doctoral and master's degrees exceeds 80%, and the proportion of personnel with associate senior titles or above is 59.29%. The school has 8 double-hired academicians, 3 national "Thousand Talents Program" innovative talents, 2 Changjiang scholars 1 person, 2 "Thousand Talents Program" talents in Hubei Province, 60 Chutian scholars, 30 national and Hubei New Century talents, and national model teachers 1 person. There are 6 famous teachers in Hubei Province, 29 excellent teachers in Baosteel Education Fund, 2/kloc-0 young experts with outstanding contributions at the provincial and ministerial levels, and 63 people enjoy special allowances from the people's governments of the State Council and Hubei Province. This school has advanced teaching and research facilities. The library has more than 3 million books; Modern information network system covers the whole school; Excellent teaching equipment, the total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment exceeds 260 million yuan; There are 32 research institutes, 1 directly affiliated hospital and 4 non-directly affiliated hospitals, which provide strong support for personnel training, scientific research and social services. \x0d\ The school has a complete range of disciplines with distinctive features, with engineering as the main subject, the combination of science and engineering, and the coordinated development of engineering, science, management, medicine, literature, economics, law, philosophy and art. There are 15 colleges (departments) offering undergraduate education and 7 1 undergraduate majors. Metallurgical engineering and mining engineering, two first-class disciplines, rank sixth and seventh respectively in universities across the country. The school has six Post-Doctoral Research Center, including metallurgical engineering, mechanical engineering, material science and engineering, control science and engineering, chemical engineering and technology, and mining engineering. It also has 7 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 36 two disciplines doctoral degree authorization points and 20 first-level discipline master degree authorization points. 10. There are 1 national key disciplines, 15 provincial key first-class disciplines and provincial key first-class disciplines (covering 72 two disciplines). \x0d\ The school has strong scientific research strength and outstanding advantages, especially in steel metallurgy, materials, machinery, chemical industry, control and other industries. The school has the only national key laboratory in Hubei provincial universities, namely "State Key Laboratory of Refractory Materials and Metallurgy of the Ministry of Education", 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 1 Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, 8 provincial key laboratories, 3 provincial key scientific research bases of humanities and social sciences, 1 Provincial Engineering Research Center and 2 provincial engineering technology research centers. In the past five years, the school has successively hosted and undertaken 248 national-level projects such as "973", "863", "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and won 77 provincial and ministerial science and technology (social science) achievement awards; Our school has won the National Science and Technology Achievement Award 16 for eight consecutive years (including the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award 1 item, the second prize of National Technology Invention Award 12, and the third prize of National Technology Invention Award), ranking 67th in the list of China University's science and technology awards in 20 14. \x0d\ Schools attach importance to industry advantages and actively innovate school-enterprise cooperation mode. It has successively established all-round cooperative relations with more than 20 large enterprises such as WISCO, Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and Chongqing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and relevant cities and states in Hubei Province, and led the establishment of a regional development-oriented collaborative innovation center for high-performance steel materials and their applications, as well as WISCO- Wuhan University of Science and Technology Steel New Technology Research Institute and Shaogang-Wuhan University of Science and Technology Ironmaking Technology Research Institute, and established Xu Jiayin Scholarship, Kelisheng Scholarship and Kelisheng Scholarship. The school also set up a board of directors. The first board of directors has 33 enterprises, and the second board of directors consists of 565,438+0 directors. Directors are distributed in metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, medical treatment, construction, finance, scientific research and design, education and other industries 12. In the whole country 13 provinces, cities and autonomous regions. In order to further strengthen the contact between the school and all walks of life and promote scientific and technological cooperation, the school insists on educational innovation, strengthens quality education, advocates equal emphasis on knowing and doing, pays attention to personality development, pays attention to cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability, and trains high-quality innovative talents with both ability and political integrity. Adhere to the position of teaching center, actively adapt to the needs of economic construction and social development, actively promote the reform of education and teaching, and implement flexible academic system, credit system, major and minor system, and double-degree system. To promote the all-round development of students; There are 3 national teaching teams, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 6 national excellent courses, 7 national characteristic courses, 6 national bilingual demonstration courses 1, 6 national resources * * * courses, 6 national "excellent engineer education and training programs" majors, 2 national engineering practice education centers, 2 national off-campus practice education base construction projects for college students, and national planning textbooks/. Approved to build a national professional reform pilot, a national talent training model innovation experimental zone, a national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, and a national college English teaching reform demonstration site; Won four national teaching achievement awards, ranking the top universities in China 15. The quality of personnel training has been continuously improved, and the average employment rate of graduates in the past five years has reached over 94%. In the international and domestic scientific and technological innovation and skill competitions, students have won the first prize of the national college students' mathematical modeling competition, the special prize of the national college students' smart car competition, the first prize of the national college students' embedded system design competition, the gold medal of the "Challenge Cup" national college students' entrepreneurial plan competition, the champion of the international steelmaking challenge and the special prize of national english contest for college students. The "Climber" robot soccer team won the 10 world championship and the 13 national championship successively, and the students of the Art College won the "Red Dot" design award twice. The school women's basketball team enjoys a high reputation in the whole country, and has won the National Universiade, CUBA and CUBS for many times, and trained many national team players represented by Miao, the captain of the national women's basketball team. \x0d\ Over the past century, Wuhan University of Science and Technology has been adhering to the fine tradition of "respecting morality and learning, respecting truth and excluding floating", and has formed a good school spirit and style of study, which has trained more than/kloc-0.3 million professionals for the country and society. They have become the backbone and pillar of national politics, economy, science and technology, education, culture, health and other fields, especially the iron and steel metallurgical industry. A large number of outstanding alumni have grown into academicians of China Academy of Engineering, experts and scholars, party and government leaders, and chairmen or general managers of large iron and steel enterprises. The school is known as "the cradle of metallurgical high-level talents". \x0d\ The school insists on opening to the outside world. We have established solid cooperative relations with more than 30 universities and research institutions in Australia, Germany, the United States, Japan, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and other countries and regions. The school cooperated with university of bridgeport in the United States to hold the major of electronic information engineering (undergraduate education plan), and cooperated with Deakin University in Australia to hold the major of mechanical engineering (undergraduate education plan). In cooperation with Birmingham City University, UK, the network engineering major (undergraduate education project) and the logistics management major (specialist education project) were held in cooperation with Ngon Institute of Technology in Singapore. Famous scholars at home and abroad are invited to be honorary professors and part-time professors of the school, a large number of foreign experts are invited to give lectures and lectures, and teachers are sent abroad for further study and scientific research cooperation, so as to continuously enhance the core competitiveness of the school in international academic exchanges.