Beijing Information Science and Technology University

Beijing University of Information Science and Technology was established by the merger of the Beijing Institute of Mechanical Engineering, formerly affiliated with the Ministry of Machinery, and the Beijing Institute of Information Engineering, affiliated with the former Ministry of Electronics. Focus on supporting the construction of colleges and universities. The history of running the school can be traced back to 1937. In its 84-year history of running the school, the school has always been rooted in China, integrated into the initial development of the national machinery industry and computer industry, and made indelible contributions to the national defense science and technology industry. At the same time, it has also formed distinctive information characteristics, industry characteristics, Military characteristics. The spirit of the school motto of “diligence in learning and trust in building a good character” is here to stay and is passed down from generation to generation. The school currently has 5 campuses, and the construction of a new campus covering an area of ​​more than 1,200 acres is being accelerated. The first phase of the project is about to be completed, and the first phase of relocation will be completed in 2021.

Party building and ideological and political work have achieved remarkable results. Comprehensively strengthen the party's leadership over all work of the school, take political construction as the guide, comprehensively strengthen the "five environment construction" of space, running schools, educating people, governance, and emotions, continue to optimize the top-level design, and continuously promote the reform of the internal governance system. We must persist in integrating ideological and political work throughout the entire process of education and teaching, promote the sound and rapid development of various undertakings, and comprehensively improve the scientific, institutionalized and standardized level of party building and ideological and political work. It has been rated as "Capital Spiritual Civilization Unit" for many consecutive years, and won the Beijing Municipal Party Building and Ideological and Political Work Advanced School Nomination Award.

Talent cultivation has distinctive characteristics. Adhere to cultivating people with moral integrity and strive to cultivate high-quality application-oriented talents with strong practical ability, innovation awareness and international awareness. There are currently 10,569 full-time undergraduate students, 2,426 graduate students, and 130 international students. There are currently 44 undergraduate majors, including 11 national-level first-class major construction sites and 4 national-level characteristic major construction sites; Beijing municipal-level first-class major construction sites and 9 Beijing characteristic major construction sites. It is a "key construction site" for Beijing universities. "First-class Majors", 3 majors were selected into the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, 7 majors passed the engineering education professional certification, and 2 majors were approved by the Ministry of Education as "Pilot Majors for the Comprehensive Reform of Undergraduate Majors in Local Universities". There are currently 3 national first-class undergraduate courses, 12 "high-quality undergraduate courses" from Beijing universities, and 12 sets of "high-quality undergraduate textbooks and courseware" from Beijing universities. It has 2 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national-level off-campus practical education base for college students, 1 national-level engineering practical education center construction unit, 5 Beijing experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 5 Beijing off-campus talent training bases. Won one second prize for national education and teaching achievements, and was selected into the first batch of demonstration universities in Beijing to deepen innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. Graduates have strong employment competitiveness and high starting salaries, and are widely praised by employers.

The teaching staff is relatively strong. There are currently 1,066 full-time teachers, 69.7% of whom have doctoral degrees, and 61.6% have senior professional titles; the school has 2 national-level candidates for the "Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project", 1 person selected for the national-level "Young Talent Project", and 3 Beijing scholars , 1 young Beijing scholar, 4 people selected into Beijing’s “New Century Hundreds and Thousands of Talents Project”; 1 person from the Ministry of Education’s “Yangtze River Scholars and Innovation Team”, 3 people from the “Beijing Strategic Science and Technology Talent Team”; Beijing’s Outstanding Young Talents 15 top-notch teams and innovation teams from municipal universities; 6 Beijing-level high-level talents such as Great Wall Scholars; 7 top-notch young talents from Beijing; 45 top-notch young talents from municipal universities; 8 top-notch innovative talents from municipal universities; There are 20 young talents in Beijing and 102 young and middle-aged backbones. There are 21 doctoral supervisors, 35 part-time doctoral supervisors, and 502 master's degree supervisors. There are 1 national-level outstanding teaching team, 8 outstanding teaching teams in Beijing, 4 innovative teams from the Ministry of Education, 1 “National University Huang Danian-style Teacher Team”, 3 outstanding undergraduate education teams from Beijing universities, and 1 national May 1st heroine model people. 3 outstanding advanced collectives for moral education in Beijing, 30 teachers’ moral models, teachers’ ethics pioneers, and outstanding educators in Beijing, 4 famous teachers in Beijing’s “High Innovation Plan”, and 16 famous teachers in higher education institutions in Beijing. There is one famous young teaching teacher in the municipal higher education institution and three outstanding undergraduate teaching managers in Beijing universities. 11 people won the Beijing Capital Labor Medal and the Capital Education Pioneer and Advanced Individuals.

The academic strength continues to increase. The school has formed a discipline pattern that focuses on engineering and coordinates the development of six disciplines: engineering, management, management, economics, liberal arts, and law. There are currently 1 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 13 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 6 professional master's degree authorization categories. The school accurately aligns with the innovation-driven development strategies of the country and the capital, serves the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the development needs of high-tech industries in Beijing, continues to promote the development of disciplinary connotation, characteristic development and differentiated development, and the disciplinary strength and level have been further improved. It now has 2 high-tech and sophisticated disciplines in Beijing, 1 high-tech and sophisticated discipline in Beijing co-constructed with the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and 1 discipline co-constructed with Tsinghua University.

The advantages of scientific and technological innovation are outstanding. Continue to strengthen scientific research and achieve outstanding results in new generation information technology, intelligent manufacturing and other fields. From 2007 to 2009, it continuously won 4 National Science and Technology Awards as the first unit; in 2017, it won 1 National Science and Technology Award again. It has 29 provincial, ministerial and industry key scientific research institutions, including 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 1 Beijing laboratory, 6 Beijing key laboratories, 2 Beijing engineering centers, and 3 Beijing international science and technology cooperation bases. , 1 Beijing philosophy and social science research base. 1 postdoctoral research workstation. Annual scientific research funding exceeds 200 million yuan. A number of achievements in high-end software, sensing technology, high-end equipment manufacturing and other fields have been industrialized, and the total assets of the school-run science and technology industry exceed 500 million yuan. Torsi Information Technology Co., Ltd., in which it holds shares, is the first listed company among Beijing municipal universities. In 2020, 83 invention patents were authorized, and 8 new awards at provincial and ministerial levels or above were added in the past three years.

The scale of international education continues to expand, and it has established inter-school exchange and cooperation relationships with more than 100 foreign universities, realizing a comprehensive joint training model for undergraduates, masters, and doctoral students. The school has a Sino-foreign cooperative education program for master's degree students in electronic information, approved by the Ministry of Education and co-organized with the University of Oakland in the United States. The school has hired a number of world-renowned experts and scholars, including American Nobel Prize winners in economics, academicians of the British Academy of Engineering, and professors at the University of Cambridge, to serve as academic committee members and honorary professors of the school. It has jointly established the Advanced Optoelectronics Institute with Tsinghua University and the University of Cambridge. The Joint Laboratory for International Technology Cooperation and the “Innovation and Introduction Base for Advanced Optoelectronic Devices and Systems Disciplines” were selected into the national “111 Plan”. The school is Beijing’s “Belt and Road” national talent training base and the first batch of members of the “Belt and Road” Sino-Polish University Alliance. The School of International Exchange of the school has international student degree training programs at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It provides government scholarships for international students studying in China. The enrollment scale is constantly expanding, the quality of education and teaching is constantly improving, and graduated alumni are all over the world.

At present, the school complies with the development trend of the information age, adheres to political construction as the guide, takes "double first-class" construction as the guide, closely adheres to the requirements of application-oriented universities, scientifically grasps the new development stage, conscientiously implements new development concepts, and actively integrates into the new development pattern. , continue to promote connotation development, characteristic development, and differentiated development, and make great strides towards building a high-level university with distinctive information characteristics.