Xi University of Architecture and Technology is located in Xi 'an, a famous historical and cultural city, with the famous Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the Tang Dynasty in the south and the world-famous Chang 'an City Wall in the Ming Dynasty in the north. The school covers an area of 365,438+10,000 square meters, with a building area of over 900,000 square meters, beautiful environment and convenient transportation.
Xi University of Architecture and Technology, formerly known as Xi Institute of Metallurgy and Architecture, was formed by the merger of Northeast Institute of Technology, Northwest Institute of Technology, Qingdao Institute of Technology and Civil Engineering Department (discipline) of Sunan Institute of Technology. 1956. It has accumulated the earliest batch of civil architecture departments in the history of higher education in China, with a history of 100 years. At that time, it was named Xi 'an Institute of Architecture and Engineering. 1959 and 1963 were renamed as Xi 'an Institute of Metallurgy and Xi 'an Institute of Metallurgical Architecture. 1March 8, 994, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, it was renamed as Xi University of Architecture and Technology.
Xi University of Architecture and Technology is a multidisciplinary university featuring civil engineering, focusing on science and engineering, as well as arts, law, economics, management, art and education. Architecture and civil engineering have a long history, and majors in metallurgy, materials, machinery and electronic information are strong. It is one of the famous civil engineering colleges in China. There are 16 colleges (departments) and 45 undergraduate majors, which are facing the first batch of enrollment in China. Except for architecture and urban planning, the two majors are five-year, and the other majors are four-year.
The school has 97 teaching and research sections, 43 laboratories and 42 research institutes (stations). Powder engineering research institute is the national "research and promotion center of precalcining technology of dry cement rotary kiln". Architectural design and research institute and urban planning and design institute belong to the national first-class design units, and building materials design and research institute is the national second-class design unit of building materials. The school library has more than 2 million books and more than 4,500 Chinese and foreign periodicals. The school has now built an advanced campus computer network in China, which is connected with the Internet, realizing the resource sharing with the Internet. The school also has an audio-visual education center, a computing center, a physical examination center, a college student activity center, a 40,000-square-meter track and field, gymnastics fitness facilities and other cultural and sports venues. All these provide good conditions and environment for cultivating socialist modernization builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physique.
The school has more than 2 100 teaching staff, including more than 700 teachers, engineers and researchers with senior titles, including China Academy of Engineering 1 person. There are more than 26,000 students and junior college students, and more than 3,600 doctoral and master students. The school has two national key disciplines; 7 provincial and ministerial key disciplines; National Research and Promotion Center for Scientific and Technological Achievements 1 unit; 3 provincial and ministerial engineering research and scientific and technological achievements promotion centers; There are 5 provincial and ministerial key laboratories. The school is one of the first units in the State Council approved to award doctor's degree, master's degree and bachelor's degree. At present, 58 disciplines and majors have the right to award master's degrees, and 9 disciplines, such as structural engineering, architectural history and theory, and environmental engineering, have the right to award doctoral degrees. Shaanxi colleges and universities have postdoctoral mobile stations in architecture, civil engineering, environmental engineering, materials science and engineering and eight "famous brands". There are more than 8,000 registered students in vocational and technical colleges and continuing education colleges, which are good bases for continuing education.
According to the national talent training objectives and requirements, the school actively implements quality education, continuously improves the teaching quality, integrates theory with practice, and pays attention to cultivating students' scientific spirit of seeking truth from facts, independent thinking and being brave in creation. In order to meet the needs of the construction of socialist market economy, the school has implemented reform measures such as major and minor, flexible academic system, and established various incentive systems for undergraduates. In recent years, our students have been among the best in international college students' design competitions and thesis appraisal for seven times, winning more than 10. In particular, the students of the School of Architecture won the prize in the "International College Students' Architectural Design Competition" organized by UNESCO and IAA for five consecutive times, and won the 14th highest prize-UNESCO Award, which won honors for our school and China college students. From 65438 to 0999, our school successfully organized the 20th UIA International Architects Conference, which was the first time in Asia and the first time in the world that a university was solely responsible for it. In recent years, our school has also undertaken dozens of national key planning and design tasks and key scientific and technological projects, such as the overall planning and design of the renovation of the Huangdi Mausoleum, the research on the green building system in the Loess Plateau, the preheating and decomposition technology of high solid-gas ratio cement, and the research on non-toxic gold extraction. A number of advanced scientific and technological achievements at home and abroad have been achieved, which has won a good social reputation for our school and expanded its external influence.
In recent years, the first choice admission rate of students and the initial employment rate of graduates have always been at the forefront of universities in China. In 2000, our school was awarded the title of "National Advanced Unit for Employment in Colleges and Universities" in the first appraisal after the reform of the employment system of the Ministry of Education. In 2002, the employment rate of graduates in our school was as high as 98.3%, ranking first among ordinary universities (engineering) in Shaanxi Province. In 2005, our school's first choice admission rate in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Zhejiang and other provinces 18 reached 100%, and the initial employment rate of undergraduate graduates reached 98.64%, ranking among the top universities in Shaanxi Province.
Since the reform and opening up, the school has strengthened academic exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries, and has successively established inter-school cooperative relations with dozens of well-known universities at home and abroad, such as Kyushu University in Japan, Japanese University, Wollongong University in Australia, milian University in the United States, Bordeaux Institute of Architecture in France, Kiev Institute of Architecture and Engineering in Ukraine, Shuntian University in Korea and Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Over the past 40 years, Xi University of Architecture and Technology has inherited and carried forward the school spirit of "rejuvenating the country through education and enriching the people through science and technology" and the school motto of "self-improvement, honesty, pursuit and innovation", trained more than 50,000 senior scientific and technological talents with both ability and political integrity for the motherland, provided a large number of scientific research achievements for the national and local governments, and made important contributions to the higher education, economic construction and social development of the motherland. At present, the teachers and students of the whole school are riding the spring breeze of rejuvenating the country through science and education and developing the western region, with high spirits and pioneering spirit, and are striving hard to make Xi University of Architecture and Technology an internationally renowned domestic high-level university.
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