Hohai University
is one the key universities in China, a comprehensive university
with emphasis laid on engineering and attention paid to the
coordinated development of arts, science, economics and
management. Hohai is also one of the first universities
empowered by the State Council to confer the degrees of Doctor,
Master and Bachelor and has been classified by the State as one
of the 100 universities to be built with priority in the 21st
Century(“211 Project).
Changzhou Campus is an
important component of Hohai University, with sound education
functions, founded in February, 1986, at the approval of the
State Education Commission. It is located in the most developed
area in Jiangsu Province, right inside the New & High
Development Zone of Changzhou, with an area of 450 mu and a
staff of 540 faculty members, of whom 110 are professors and
associate professors. There are more than 7000 students here in
all, of whom about 200 are postgraduates and 5000 are
undergraduates. It now consists of the college of Mechanical &
Electrical Engineering, the College of Computer and Information
Engineering (Changzhou), the College of Commerce (Changzhou),
the College of Asia-Australia Commerce and the four Departments
of Basic Courses.
Changzhou Campus takes
various measures in curriculum construction, essential-facility
and public-service improvement and run the school according to
the requirements of Hohai University’s overall aims.
As a result of the efforts
over the years, Changzhou Campus has already developed its own
curriculum system, which lays emphasis on the rising science,
the frontier science and intersecting science, on the
cultivation of the personnel in mechanical science and on the
scientific research, stepping up the development of the
information and management subjects with Hohai University
together. It now consists of 13 undergraduate course majors, as
mechanical project and automation, and is the authorizer of the
master degrees of 6 majors, including “mechanical design and
theory”, “material procession engineering”, “mechanical and
electrical engineering”, “communication and information system”,
“mechanical manufacture and automation”, “ test technology and
automation installation”, and the authorizer for the engineering
masters in the two fields of “industry engineering” and
“mechanical engineering”.
Changzhou Campus takes
efforts to deepen the reform of education, pays attention to
develop the teaching team, optimize the teaching plan, and
strengthen the basic courses and the basic courses of each
major, especially computer science and foreign language
teaching. According to the requirements of the planning of
curriculums and the development of social economy, it sets the
major courses as elective courses, which help to expand
students’ comprehensive quality. It strengthens the practice
part of teaching, pays attention to the cultivation of students’
creativity and their awareness to start their own undertakings,
and takes the driving training into the teaching plan of each
major. From the year 1996 on, Changzhou Campus began to run the
credit system and take a series of new measures at a full scale.
As a result, the outstanding graduates can be accepted to take
the postgraduate courses without exams; outstanding students can
take a second major. As the education reform deepened, the
quality of teaching improved constantly, the graduates have been
welcome by society, and the employment rate stays high.
While attaching adequate
importance to teaching, Changzhou Campus pays sufficient
attention to mental civilization, carrying out various programs
to cultivate students by teaching, by administrating and by rear
service. I was rewarded in 1994 the honor of “Civilized Unit” by
Changzhou Municipal government and passed the “University
Atmosphere” inspection by Jiangsu Province. From the year 1998
on, Changzhou Campus have rewarded the honor of “Civilized Unit”
each year, and passed the “Splendid University Atmosphere”
inspection by Jiangsu Province.
