The school is located in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, a national historical and cultural city known as the thoroughfare of four provinces. From June 5, 2005 to 10, the school built a new campus on the banks of Qujiang River in the west of Quzhou. The campus covers an area of 704 mu with a total construction area of 210.03 million square meters. This is a modern new campus with complete functions, advanced equipment and beautiful scenery.
The school has seven colleges, including School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Architecture and Engineering, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, School of Economic and Trade Management, School of Teacher Education and School of Foreign Languages. There are 6 undergraduate majors and 23 specialist majors in mechanical design and manufacturing and automation, chemical engineering and technology, civil engineering, Chinese language and literature, English, mathematics and applied mathematics. At present, there are nearly 6,000 full-time students, the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 47.77 million yuan, there are 620,000 paper books, 835 kinds of various academic journals, 9 closed mirror stations (databases) such as Tsinghua Tongfang academic journals, 23 central laboratories in the school, 335 off-campus production practice bases and practice schools, and 1 affiliated schools.
The school has 523 teaching and administrative staff, 43 teachers with associate senior professional and technical positions or above/kloc-0, 34 professors, and 96 teachers with graduate education or above/kloc-0, which is a part-time teacher team hired by enterprises. There are a number of key enterprises such as Juhua Group, a national super-large chemical enterprise, as our long-term and stable internship base, and the internship conditions are unique; The school has also hired senior engineers and experts from enterprises and institutions for a long time to guide various internships, practical training and graduation design.
The school has continuously deepened the teaching reform and vigorously promoted scientific research, and the teaching quality and scientific research level have been continuously improved. In recent years, it has won the second prize of national higher education teaching achievement 1 item, the third prize of national educational science 1 item, 2 first prizes of Zhejiang higher education teaching achievement, and 9 provincial-level excellent courses. Graduates have a solid professional foundation, strong hands-on ability, strong pioneering and innovative spirit and strong adaptability to employment, which is well received by the society. In recent years, the initial employment rate of graduates has remained above 95%, and it has been rated as an excellent school for graduates' employment in ordinary colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province.
The school attaches importance to cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability, and actively guides students to participate in innovative societies and science and technology competitions. In the past five years, our students have achieved excellent results in mathematical modeling, programming, structural design and multimedia design competitions for college students, and won six national first prizes, four national second prizes and seven provincial first prizes. Among them, the dance "Dongfanghong" won the first prize of the first national college students' art exhibition and was performed in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing; The dance "Qujiang Drum Tide" won the gold medal of the excellent program of the 7th China Art Festival and the special prize of the 7th China Art Festival of the Ministry of Culture. The first prize of mathematical modeling for national college students in 2009; In 20 10, he won the first prize in the finals of the national sandbox simulation competition for college students' enterprise management; 20 10 the 6th world choir games won 2 gold medals. Our school's unique "Southern Sky Culture" was rated as the campus culture brand of Zhejiang universities.
Over the past 25 years, the school has been adhering to the motto of "dedication, truth-seeking and innovation", strengthening the school-running concept of "people-oriented, having both ability and political integrity and keeping pace with the times", and * * * has trained more than 20,000 applied talents with solid foundation and strong practical ability. The school has successively won honors such as Zhejiang Civilized Unit, Zhejiang University Safe Campus and Zhejiang Advanced Health Unit.
The future development orientation of the school is: based on Quzhou, facing Zhejiang, serving the local area, and building the school into an application-oriented undergraduate college with distinctive characteristics.