The Institute of Historical Evolution and Development was founded in 1958 as the Beijing Institute of Light Industry, which belongs to the Ministry of Light Industry and is the first light industry institute in New China. 1970 moved to Xianyang, Shaanxi, and changed its name to Northwest Institute of Light Industry. 1978 was identified by the State Council as one of the 88 key universities in China. 1998 The school was placed in Shaanxi Province, and the system of joint construction by the central and local governments and local management was implemented. In 2002, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was renamed Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, which is the only institution of higher learning in the western region featuring light industry.
Infrastructure and school conditions The school covers an area of 646,500 square meters, including 303,700 square meters of teaching administration and 654,380 square meters of student dormitory. The library covers an area of 34,600 square meters, with paper books1164,700, 450,000 electronic books (kinds) and 400,000 books enjoyed by * *. The total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 65.438+008 billion yuan, and the campus network has a high level of construction and runs well.
There are 9 17 full-time teachers in the school, including 504 teachers with master's and doctoral degrees, accounting for 54.96% of the total number of full-time teachers. There are 3 15 teachers with the title of associate professor or above, accounting for 34.35% of the total number of full-time teachers. The school has 1 double-hired academicians (honorary president of the school and current president of the International Federation of Materials, Academician Zhou Lian) and five national excellent teachers. There are experts with outstanding contributions, experts enjoying the special allowance of the State Council, winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, winners of the China Youth Science and Technology Award, winners of the New Century Outstanding Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, vice-chairman of the Professional Teaching Steering Committee of colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, experts with outstanding contributions in Shaanxi Province, talents in the "Three Five-Year Plan" in Shaanxi Province, famous teachers in Shaanxi Province, and red flag bearers in the "March 8th" in Shaanxi Province.
Discipline and school scale The school now has 12 colleges, including Paper Engineering College, Materials Science and Engineering College, Resources and Environment College, Life Science and Engineering College, Electromechanical Engineering College, Electrical and Information Engineering College, Management College, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering College, Design and Art College, Foreign Language and Communication College, Science College, Vocational and Technical College and Continuing Education College, as well as the Ministry of Sports and graduate department. There are 44 undergraduate enrollment majors in the school, involving seven categories: engineering, science, management, literature, economics, law and medicine. There are 5 doctoral degree authorization points, 7 first-class discipline master degree authorization points and 40 two disciplines master degree authorization points. By the end of June 2006, the school had full-time students 15386, including undergraduates 12755 and 849 master's and doctoral students. All kinds of students in the school are equivalent to 16 184 students.
The teaching level and personnel training schools have 7 famous-brand majors in Shaanxi Province, 2 experimental teaching demonstration centers in Shaanxi Province and 4 national management majors. 1999 ~ 2005 * * * won 19 provincial excellent teaching achievement award, 1 national excellent teaching achievement second prize. The school has built 12 excellent courses in Shaanxi Province and 1 2 national excellent courses. In the past three years, he has undertaken 9 educational reform projects in Shaanxi Province.
Since 2003, students have won 4 national prizes and 7 1 provincial prizes in national science and technology competitions such as mathematical modeling competition for college students. Students obtained 23 patents, including 2 invention patents.
Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 60,000 talents for the country. Among the graduates, there are not only winners of the first prize of national scientific and technological progress who have made important contributions to national science and technology, but also provincial and ministerial leaders with both ability and political integrity. There are not only factory directors and managers who are struggling hard in the tide of market economy, but also diligent and proficient technical backbones. They have made outstanding contributions to national construction in all walks of life, especially in the field of light industry, and won honors for the school.
The discipline construction and research school has six provincial and ministerial key disciplines, including leather chemistry and engineering, pulp and paper engineering, applied chemistry, mechanical design and theory, material science and packaging engineering. There are 18 Shaanxi provincial key laboratory of papermaking technology and specialty paper product development, Shaanxi provincial key laboratory of light chemical additives, pulp and paper engineering laboratory, CAD/CAM engineering research center of light industrial machinery, leather engineering laboratory, specialized laboratory of applied chemistry, key laboratory of commodity inspection pulp testing, Shaanxi food engineering technology research center, Shaanxi traditional Chinese medicine bioengineering technology research center, Shaanxi light industrial science and technology innovation and technical service center, Shaanxi flat panel display technology engineering research center, Shaanxi province. In 2004 and 2006, the disciplines of "Light Industry Technology and Engineering" and "Forestry Engineering" in our school ranked fifth among the national first-class disciplines. In April, 2007, Shaanxi Provincial Government decided to establish "Shaanxi Agricultural Products Processing Technology Research Institute" in our school, which is another provincial research institute approved by the provincial government after xi Jiaotong University and Northwestern Polytechnical University.
The school has made remarkable achievements in scientific research, winning national awards 14, provincial and ministerial awards 100, and departmental awards 132, among which * * * won the first prize of national scientific and technological progress in the Sixth Five-Year Plan and the Seventh Five-Year Plan. In recent years, the school has won two national second prizes for scientific and technological progress. He has undertaken 37 national projects, including the National "863" project 1, 32 key and general projects of the National Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the National Natural Science Foundation, and 4 national key projects and major scientific and technological projects during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period. Undertake more than 800 horizontal scientific research projects. The school obtained 192 authorized patents, including 36 invention patents. * * * Published 399 kinds of books and teaching materials, and 306 papers were included in the "Four Searches". In 2003, in the ranking of the actual income of technology transfer in colleges and universities published by the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education, the university ranked 47th in China and 2nd in Shaanxi. In 2005, the number of patents granted ranked 49th among universities in China and 3rd among universities in Shaanxi.
International cooperation and foreign exchange school attaches great importance to international cooperation and foreign exchange, and has established good cooperative relations with 25 universities, research institutes and enterprises in the United States, Japan, Russia, Britain, Germany, Canada, Australia, Ukraine, Georgia, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries, and has carried out fruitful cooperation in jointly cultivating students, introducing foreign teachers, exchanging visiting scholars and scientific research collaboration, and held various international academic conferences many times.
In the stormy years of nearly 50 years, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology has experienced the struggle and glory of "three ventures, two relocations and one transfer". Generation after generation of students in Shaanxi University of Science and Technology have been striving for self-improvement, pioneering and innovating, and have worked hard, forming the school-running characteristics of "rooting in the west, striving for self-improvement, and transforming spiritual motivation into high-quality educational resources" and "basing on light industry, serving the society, paying attention to practice, and constantly innovating the training mode of high-quality talents", and initially forming a multi-disciplinary university pattern with engineering as the main feature, distinctive light industry characteristics and coordinated development of multiple disciplines.