Beihang University School of Software

Beihang University is one of the earliest universities in my country to carry out research and application of software technology and software engineering. Beihang Software College was established in 2002. It was selected as one of the first 37 national demonstration software colleges, the first 33 national characteristic demonstration software colleges, and the first national first-level undergraduate professional construction site for software engineering. It is an important support force for Beihang Software Engineering. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, Beihang Software Engineering was rated as an A+ discipline and was selected into the national "first-class discipline" construction list for two consecutive times.

Since its establishment in 2002, the college has always been committed to cultivating compound innovative software talents that are urgently needed by the country and the industry, have a deep sense of home and country, a strong sense of mission, an international perspective, and comprehensive and harmonious development. Over the past 20 years, the college has trained more than 20,000 software talents active on the front line for the country and the industry. In the practice of exploring the collaborative education of school-enterprise cooperation, the talent training characterized by "innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship" has incubated a number of influential innovative enterprises in the era of the new Internet economy, forming a unique model of software engineering talent training.

In 2021, the college was selected as the first batch of national characteristic demonstration software colleges, opening up the 2.0 model of high-quality software talent training. The college focuses on the main battlefield of the national software strategy, establishes key basic software, large-scale industrial software, security-critical software, and intelligent software engineering as representative directions to explore new ideas for the integration of key software production and education talents, takes serving the country's major strategic needs and solving "stuck neck" problems as its mission, adheres to the fundamentals of moral education, highlights the characteristics of talent training, and strives to achieve three changes in software engineering talent training: that is, from market demand-driven to national strategy-driven to cultivate software talents, from professional talent training that adapts to the development of the software industry to the cultivation of advanced compound software talents with independent innovation capabilities, and from talent training to talent training and technical research for national strategic needs. The college adheres to the talent training policy of Beihang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics of "deepening feelings, strengthening foundations, highlighting practice, and integrating science and education", guides students to establish the value pursuit of "determined to serve the country, seeking truth and morality, innovating and being capable, and practicing hard", and strives to cultivate software talents with a high sense of responsibility and independent innovation ability, and advanced software engineering methods and field knowledge.

The college is one of the first national first-class undergraduate major construction sites for software engineering. This major aims to cultivate advanced compound software talents with independent innovation ability, highlighting innovation potential and engineering quality, focusing on professional directions such as intelligent industrial software and big data analysis, basic software and new platform software, and intelligent software engineering, and strives to cultivate students with good professional ethics and mission responsibility, solid software engineering theory and professional knowledge, good communication and organizational coordination skills, strong international competition and innovation capabilities, and explore the "Beihang paradigm" of characteristic exemplary software talent training that meets the needs of national economic construction and development.

The college arranges scientific research directions around national strategies and academic frontiers in key software fields. Relying on the national and provincial scientific research platforms of the National Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, the National Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and System, and the National Key Laboratory of Trusted Network Computing Technology, as well as the cooperation platforms of the Qingdao Research Institute and Hangzhou Research Institute of Beihang University, the school has formed key basic software for human-machine-object fusion environment, advanced industrial software methods and environment, safety-critical system software and engineering, artificial intelligence and intelligent software engineering and other advantageous directions, breaking through basic theories and core technologies, building major systems and platforms, undertaking major national scientific research tasks, supporting the security verification of a series of independently developed operating systems, and completing the software test and identification of a series of major models of national defense and military industry, contributing to the historical leap from large to strong in my country's software industry.

The college actively carries out scientific research innovation integrating industry and education, and integrates the training of software engineering talents into joint software technology research through discipline integration and industry drive. In recent years, the college has established joint laboratories or joint software technology research bases with China Electronics Technology Group, China Aviation Industry Corporation, China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, Manned Space Engineering Software Engineering Center, Huawei, Kylin Software, Digital Dafang, etc., to promote the training of engineering masters and engineering doctors in key software fields, and promote the training of outstanding engineers in key software fields through the school-enterprise joint dual tutor system, school-enterprise collaborative courses and practice mechanisms, and demand-oriented personalized training processes, serving the national software strategy and the main battlefield of the national economy and society.

The college creates an atmosphere that encourages international teaching and scientific research cooperation under the new situation, and makes full use of online models to expand new mechanisms for international cooperation. Explore the establishment of a certification system for international software engineers in characteristic directions, courses, and practical training, and enhance students' ability to communicate internationally and work globally; explore holding software engineering academic conferences with international influence to enhance international influence; strengthen international cooperation in talent training and scientific and technological innovation, build an open international cooperation network and a normalized international academic exchange mechanism that combines online and offline, and hire international high-quality teachers to open short-term courses through the international talent introduction plan.

The college graduates actively practice the value pursuit of "software serving the country", and the quality and ability of students are widely welcomed by society and enterprises. In the past three years, the undergraduate postgraduate study rate is nearly 60%, and the employment rate of graduates has reached more than 98%. More than 40% of them are employed in scientific research institutes and large enterprises such as national defense science and technology industry and key software enterprises, and more than 40% are employed in well-known high-tech enterprises such as Tencent.

The college will focus on the construction requirements of a characteristic demonstration software college, focus on national strategic needs and the development needs of the software industry, adhere to innovation-driven, strengthen mission responsibility, and strive to form a national strategic scientific and technological innovation force and a training base for high-quality software talents in the two fields of key basic software and large-scale industrial software through interdisciplinary and industry-education integration, and move towards a first-class domestic and internationally renowned software college with solid steps, and cultivate first-class talents and make first-class contributions to the country and society.