School of Robotics, Beijing Union University

Clear training objectives and positioning: Facing intelligent robots, intelligent cars, and intelligent and innovative design services for electromechanical products in various fields, cultivating high-quality, advanced application-oriented professionals with a high sense of social responsibility, innovative entrepreneurial spirit, and sustainable development capabilities, and who are in line with international standards and have both moral integrity and ability.

Distinctive professional settings: The college offers five undergraduate majors related to intelligent robots, innovative design of electromechanical products, and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Among them, the major of mechanical engineering is a national specialty, a Beijing specialty, and a school-level advantage major; the major of software engineering is one of the first batch of key first-class majors in Beijing, and a school-level experimental class has been established; the major of automation is a school-level advantage major and a backbone major; the major of electronic information engineering is a key construction major; the major of robotics engineering is a new major. Strong faculty: The School of Robotics gathers superior faculty and has a full-time and part-time teaching team with a reasonable structure, consisting of full-time backbone teachers and experts from domestic and foreign universities and well-known enterprises. The teaching team includes backbone teachers of the intelligent car team of Academician Li Deyi, enterprise experts such as Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group, and field experts from domestic and foreign universities such as Tsinghua University. Actively recruit experienced enterprise engineers to participate in the teaching of professional courses to form a full-time and part-time excellent teaching team with a responsible main teacher, reasonable structure, and high academic and teaching level. The college currently has 2 excellent teaching teams at the municipal level in Beijing; the proportion of full-time teachers with senior professional titles exceeds 50%, the proportion of doctors exceeds 70%, and the proportion of teachers with overseas study, visiting studies, and training backgrounds reaches 50%; 1 teacher was rated as an advanced individual in teacher ethics in Beijing.

Advanced training concepts and training models: Based on the standards of international engineering education certification, focusing on the cultivation of innovative spirit and practical ability, implementing the advanced teaching concept oriented to learning results, adhering to the "two-wheel drive" talent training model of "enterprise full involvement" and "student interest-led", consolidating the "integration of learning and majoring" style of study construction platform, giving full play to the educational function of disciplines and majors, and striving to cultivate high-quality application engineers with international standards and the pursuit of excellence and innovation.

Complete teaching facilities: The college has built the Modern Manufacturing Engineering Technology Center and the Mechanical and Electrical Sub-Center of the Beijing Engineering Comprehensive Experiment Center, which are key construction projects in Beijing. It has complete experimental teaching equipment and facilities, which provide strong support for the development of teaching and scientific research projects. First-class off-campus practice base: The college focuses on engineering practice ability, emphasizes scientific and technological innovation ability, and improves social adaptability. It attaches importance to industry-university cooperation and has close contact with industry enterprises. The college is currently the vice chairman unit of the Zhongguancun Future Manufacturing Industry Technology International Innovation Strategic Alliance, the vice chairman unit of the Beijing Mechanical Engineering Society, the vice chairman unit of the Beijing Design Society, the Beijing Intelligent Robot Innovation Alliance and other governing units. With the help of the college's influence in the industry, it has established a school-enterprise cooperation "Talent Training Steering Committee". The college has established close cooperative relations with first-class domestic and foreign high-tech enterprises such as Germany's SIEMENS, Beijing Benz Automotive Co., Ltd., Beijing Jingcheng Electromechanical Holdings Co., Ltd., Japan's SMC Corporation, Beijing Automotive Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Metro Group, Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group, and Bao Qianli Company in professional construction, practical ability training, and on-campus practical teaching and scientific research base construction. The industry-university cooperation base jointly built by the college and Beijing Jingcheng Electromechanical Holdings Co., Ltd. has won the title of "Beijing Higher Education Institutions Municipal Off-campus Talent Training Base". In addition to meeting students' off-campus internships, practices and other teaching needs, the construction of off-campus talent training bases also adheres to the "targeted training of professional talents" and provides strong support for graduates' employment.

Continuously improving scientific research level: The college has 2 municipal scientific research institutions - Beijing Information Service Engineering Key Laboratory, Beijing Intelligent Machinery Innovation Design Service Engineering Technology Research Center, 1 school-level scientific research institution - Beijing Union University Transmission Research Institute, and a first-level discipline "Software Engineering" master's degree awarding point. Guided by the overall strategy proposed by "Made in China 2025" and oriented by discipline and professional construction, the college is committed to the research of intelligent machinery design and manufacturing, intelligent service robots, human factors engineering and system improvement, and manufacturing information cloud services, and has achieved fruitful results. The college has worked closely with many well-known universities and institutes such as Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Beijing Institute of Technology to promote the development of robot research and recommend outstanding talents to continue their studies.

Rich student science and technology activities and international exchanges: The college advocates student interest-led, adheres to the principle of "focusing on interest-driven, independent practice, and process", and relies on the university student science and technology innovation base and open laboratory to continuously improve the level of student science and technology activities. The achievements of students' scientific and technological innovation activities are outstanding. In recent years, they have achieved excellent results in major events such as the China "AI+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the National Electronic Design Competition, the Siemens Cup National College Student Industrial Automation Challenge, the North China Five Provinces (Cities, Autonomous Regions) College Student Robot Competition, and the Capital University Mechanical Innovation Design Competition, which have improved students' engineering quality and practical innovation ability.

The college attaches importance to international exchanges and cooperation, and cultivates new engineering application talents with an international perspective. Taking China's accession to the Washington Accord as an opportunity, it promotes the professional certification of engineering education and expands international exchanges. Actively select outstanding students to exchange and study in 29 international alliance schools in countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, South Korea, India, and Taiwan.

In terms of innovative talent training characteristics: during the period of study at school, students can participate in various scientific and technological projects around the application research of robots through self-registration. For example, the college has built 20 "Little Cyclone" series special intelligent vehicles for teaching and scientific research and development team practice innovation platforms, relying on 10 different types of special intelligent vehicles such as golf carts, shuttle buses, patrol cars, fire trucks, delivery trucks, and couple cars. Through the establishment of open topics, students and professional teachers are recruited from the Robotics College and the school as mentors. From the first grade to the fourth grade, real scientific research practice training is carried out to stimulate students' innovative inspiration, spark sparks, learn from each other, and integrate professional experiments with scientific research training, shorten the distance between learning and application, and achieve learning in practice, practice in learning, and improvement in practice, so as to achieve "learning for application, research for application", and achieve scientific task focus, so as to form a multi-disciplinary cross-integration to solve scientific problems. Teaching reform and innovation ideas. After completing their studies, students are recommended to enter the "Beijing Union University Intelligent Vehicle Graduate Research Experimental Class" and the "Beijing Union University Intelligent Service Robot Team" for further study. The college highlights the school motto of "learning for practical use" and will also provide students with employment opportunities in well-known industry companies such as Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Group. In the process of talent training, it emphasizes the completion of scientific research tasks and the orientation of scientific research problem solving, so as to cultivate high-quality application-oriented talents. In 2017, the college, together with Imperial College London and others, was approved by the British Royal Academy of Engineering Newton Fund to fund the project "Talents Cultivation and Cooperation Oriented to Intelligent Vehicle Industrialization", researching and practicing talent training in the field of intelligent driving, and opening up a new way for international talent exchange and training.

Perfect scholarship and loan system and work-study system: The college has established an award and excellence system with the purpose of "supporting and cultivating, rewarding excellence, and inspiring and helping students". A "green channel" is opened to ensure that freshmen from families with financial difficulties can enter school smoothly; a series of perfect student aid measures such as "awards, assistance, loans, subsidies, and diligence" are established to provide guarantees for students from families with financial difficulties to complete their studies.

High-quality employment and well-received graduates: The college actively adapts to social needs, comprehensively optimizes talent training programs, continuously deepens education and teaching reforms, vigorously strengthens practical teaching, focuses on cultivating students' innovative spirit and practical ability, and pays attention to the improvement of students' comprehensive quality. Graduates have strong adaptability to work, solid business basic skills, and are hardworking and down-to-earth. They have been widely recognized and praised by the society and employers, and are in short supply in the job market. For many years, the employment rate of students has remained above 95%.

Superior geographical location: The college has two campuses, Gongti North Road and North Fourth Ring Road. The Gongti North Road campus is adjacent to the CBD functional area and the prosperous Sanlitun embassy area in East Third Ring Road. It is adjacent to Chaoyang Park and Tuanjiehu Park in the east, Beijing Workers' Stadium and World Trade Center in the west, Sanlitun Taikoo Li (Village) in the north, and China World Trade Center and CCTV Headquarters Building in the south. The geographical location is very superior; the college is close to Metro Line 10 and Line 6, and there are dozens of bus routes around it, and the transportation is extremely convenient.