Hebei University of Engineering

Hebei University of Engineering is a key university in Hebei Province, a university jointly established by the Hebei Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Water Resources, a first-class domestic university construction university supported by Hebei Province, and a civilized unit in Hebei Province. It is located in Handan, a famous historical and cultural city in China and the "capital of idioms and allusions".

The school has excellent conditions and a beautiful campus environment. The new campus of the school covers a total area of ​​4,098 acres and a construction area of ​​763,200 square meters. There are 2,425 faculty members, including 2 dual-appointed academicians, 1 winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 2 national "Ten Thousand Talents Program" science and technology leaders, 2 national candidates for the "New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project", 1 "Young Yangtze River Scholar", 2 high-end talents in Hebei Province, 6 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 15 provincial teaching masters, 9 provincial excellent teaching teams, 6 provincial ideological and political demonstration courses, 6 provincial ideological and political teaching masters and teams, 3 selected for the "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, 7 experts enjoying special allowances from the Hebei Provincial Government, and 61 people in the Hebei New Century "Three Three Three Talent Project". There are 3,089 doctoral and master's students, 23,104 full-time undergraduates, and 133 international students. It has advanced teaching and research laboratories, and a total of 2.639 million paper books in the library. The school has a 10G optical fiber backbone, a Gigabit to the desktop campus network, and a wireless coverage network. The affiliated hospital of the school is a Class-A tertiary comprehensive hospital, and the affiliated school is an independent unit with separate funding.

The disciplines are complete and the engineering characteristics are distinct. There are 11 disciplines, including engineering, science, management, agriculture, medicine, literature, economics, law, art, education, and history. There are 87 undergraduate majors, of which 70 are engineering-related majors, accounting for 80%. It has the only doctoral talent training project in Hebei Province that serves the country's special needs - water resources and water environment regulation and comprehensive management, and the only postdoctoral research mobile station for water conservancy engineering in Hebei Province. The engineering discipline has entered the top 1% of the ESI ranking in the world. It has 17 first-level disciplines authorized to grant master's degrees, including water conservancy engineering, geological resources and geological engineering, mechanical engineering, management science and engineering; 13 master's professional degree authorization categories, including business administration (MBA), civil water conservancy, electronic information, agriculture, and law. The discipline of water conservancy engineering is a priority support discipline for the first-class discipline construction project in Hebei Province, and geological resources and geological engineering, and mechanical engineering are key cultivation disciplines for the first-class discipline construction project in Hebei Province.

The quality of talent training is high and enjoys a good social reputation. The school has the qualification to recommend outstanding undergraduate graduates to study for a master's degree without examination. There are 4 national characteristic majors, 2 national "undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot" project majors, 3 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 1 national college student off-campus practical education base construction project, 7 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 provincial undergraduate education innovation highlands, 15 provincial first-class undergraduate construction sites, 8 provincial brand characteristic majors, 5 provincial "undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot" project majors, 4 double bachelor's degree education pilot majors, 2 provincial college student off-campus practical education bases, and 1 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching center. The employment rate and employment quality of graduates continue to remain at a high level. In the nearly 70 years since its establishment, the school has trained more than 200,000 graduates, and many outstanding professional and technical talents, corporate executives, and political elites have emerged.

The innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities of college students have been significantly improved. The school is the first batch of demonstration universities in Hebei Province to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and was named Hebei Entrepreneurship University in 2020. Qinglan Co-creation Space is a member of the Hebei Provincial Co-creation Space, Hebei University Student Entrepreneurship Incubation Demonstration Park, and Hebei Co-creation Space Alliance. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has won more than 600 national awards in competitions such as the China "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the China "TRIZ" Cup College Student Innovation Method Competition, the China College Student Formula Car Competition, and the National College Student Robot Competition. Among them, the 7th China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition won 3 bronze medals; the 6th and 7th China "TRIZ" Cup College Student Innovation Method Competition won the special prize for two consecutive sessions, and the 8th China "TRIZ" Cup College Student Innovation Method Competition won 1 first prize; the National College Student Robot Competition (Robocon) won the first prize for four consecutive sessions from 2018 to 2021; the "Lingyun Team" of the China Formula Student Car Competition (FSCC) entered the top ten of the China Formula Student Car Competition for three consecutive years in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and won the first place in the high-speed obstacle avoidance project for two consecutive years in 2019 and 2020.

Cultural inheritance and innovation have achieved remarkable results. The campus cultural construction activities led by the big project culture prospered and developed. The "Big Project Culture Cultivates Engineers" project was rated as a high-quality project of ideological and political work in colleges and universities by the Ideological and Political Department of the Ministry of Education, a case of innovation in the province's propaganda and ideology, the first prize of Hebei Province's Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, and the first prize of the province's outstanding campus cultural achievements. The Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center and the first research association on the spirit of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in colleges and universities nationwide were established to widely spread the excellent traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture. The school motto and school spirit culture with the school motto of "respecting virtue and advocating goodness, fine workmanship and casting newness" and the school spirit of "being pragmatic and knowing the details" as the core have been condensed and formed. The cultural elements and school-running traditions of various disciplines have been deeply explored, forming distinctive discipline cultures such as water-saving culture, good builder culture, knowledgeable culture, geological culture, food culture, business management culture, farming and reading culture, and Gandan Academy's characteristic culture, which are both mutually integrated and unique. Actively prepare to build the Ancient Architecture Art Museum, which now has more than 1,700 pieces (sets) of ancient architectural components, of which more than 10 pieces (sets) have been identified by a panel of experts composed of well-known domestic experts as reaching the national treasure level, with great academic value. Make every effort to build a culture of self-reliance. Since 2006, a total of 17 college students have been awarded the title of "China College Student Self-reliance Star". Demonstrating the power of "cultural war against the epidemic", the theme song "Love at Dawn" against the new crown pneumonia epidemic was broadcast on China Education Television and broadcast on the "Study Strong Country" national learning platform. The original literary and artistic works of teachers and students won the first prize of the fifth and sixth national college art exhibitions, the Hebei Province Literature and Art Revitalization Award, and the Hebei Province Spiritual Civilization Construction "Five One Project" Outstanding Works Award. The construction of sports culture has achieved fruitful results. Since the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", it has won 39 championships in national events such as the National Games, the National College Track and Field Championships, and the Aerobics Championships. The track and field team has repeatedly won the Hebei Provincial Universiade team championship. Three students broke the Hebei Provincial College Students' Women's 10,000-meter Race Walking, Men's Hammer Throw and Triple Jump records respectively. One student participated in the Doha World Athletics Championships as a member of the national track and field team, was selected for the Chinese sports delegation to the Tokyo Olympics, and won the throwing team championship and the women's shot put bronze medal at the 14th National Games. One student won the men's 10-meter air rifle team championship at the National Shooting Championships and won the fourth place in the men's rifle three-position at the 14th National Games. The People's Daily, Guangming Daily, China Education Daily, CCTV, Xinhua News Agency and other national media have reported on the school's cultural construction many times.

Scientific research and social service have achieved fruitful results. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, it has undertaken 172 national scientific research projects, including 1 key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 1 project of the National Regional Innovation and Development Joint Fund; 1,183 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. Published 2,605 SCI and EI journal papers, and obtained 393 job invention patents. The university has won 165 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards, including 2 first prizes of Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 first prize of Hebei Provincial Natural Science Award, 2 first prizes of Hebei Provincial Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, and 2 first prizes of Dayu Water Conservancy Science and Technology Award (Science and Technology Progress) of the Ministry of Water Resources (1 second unit). It has won 22 provincial teaching achievement awards, including 4 first prizes. One achievement won the "Top Ten Geological Science and Technology Progress" of the Geological Society of China in 2015. The school hosts the Journal of Hebei University of Engineering (Natural Science Edition) and the Journal of Hebei University of Engineering (Social Science Edition), and has built 3 academician workstations, 1 national technology transfer demonstration institution, 3 provincial collaborative innovation centers, 9 provincial key laboratories, 24 provincial technology innovation centers, 11 provincial industrial technology research institutes, 5 provincial engineering research centers (engineering laboratories) and 2 provincial philosophy and social science research bases.

International exchanges and cooperation have achieved remarkable results. The school has established good academic exchange and cooperation relations with more than 50 universities and research institutes in 19 countries and regions such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and Japan. It has carried out dual degree and exchange student programs with more than 20 universities, and cooperated with Dundalk Institute of Technology in Ireland to organize undergraduate education programs in civil engineering. It has established the Hebei Talent and Intelligence Demonstration Base, the Hebei Foreign Academician (Nobel Prize) Workstation, and the Hebei International Science and Technology Cooperation Base. It recruits international students from Pakistan, Zambia, Benin and other countries. As the first editor-in-chief, it co-founded the Scopus database and the ESCI-indexed journal World Journal of Engineering with the University of Alaska, the University of Langburg, and the National University of Architecture and Technology of Ukraine.

(Basic data as of December 2021)