The school was founded in June, 1972, formerly known as Hubei Institute of Chemical Technology and Petroleum, under the Hubei Provincial People's Government. 1980 was renamed Wuhan institute of chemical technology in March, and was replaced by the former head of the chemical industry department.
1July, 1998, the school was placed under the management of Hubei Provincial People's Government, and was jointly funded by the central and local governments. In February 2006, it was renamed Wuhan University of Technology. ?
As of May 2020, the school has two campuses, Wuchang and Liu Fang, covering an area of about1193,000 square meters, with a school building area of 795,000 square meters, fixed assets of193,000 yuan, teaching instruments and equipment with a total value of 4150,000 yuan, and 400 library books (including e-books).
There are 2079 on-the-job teaching and administrative staff, including full-time teaching and research staff 1269; There are 2 full-time students1951person, including 332 graduate students1person (2697 full-time graduate students), 0 undergraduate students 192065438 and 53 international students.
There are 17 secondary colleges, 64 undergraduate majors, 2 first-class doctoral programs and 2 1 first-class master programs.
Scientific research achievements of Wuhan Institute of Technology;
From 2008 to April 20 19, the school undertook 7338 scientific research projects at all levels.
Among them, there are 335 national projects such as "973 Plan", "863 Plan", national science and technology support plan, national key R&D plan, national natural science fund, national social science fund and national soft science research plan, and provincial and municipal projects 1588.
It won 2 second prizes for national scientific and technological progress, 2 second prizes for national technological inventions, and the first prize for scientific and technological progress in Hubei Province, and other provincial and municipal scientific and technological awards 153. The robot soccer team won the World Robot Soccer Championship 10.
More than 65,438+0,690 patents were granted, and more than 4,020 academic papers published by faculty members were retrieved and included by SCI, EI, ISTP, SSCI, CSSCI, Xinhua Abstracts, NPC, etc.