Shandong Agricultural Engineering College

Shandong Agricultural Engineering College is a provincial general undergraduate college in Shandong Province. In 1953, the Shandong Provincial People's Government approved the establishment of Shandong Agricultural and Forestry Cadre School, which was divided into Shandong Agricultural Cadre School and Shandong Forestry Cadre School. In 1959, it was merged into Shandong Agricultural and Forestry Cadre School. Later, it went through the Shandong Provincial Revolutionary Committee May 7 Cadre School, Shandong Provincial Revolutionary Committee Production Command May 7 Cadre School, Shandong Provincial Organ May 7 Cadre School, Shandong Agricultural and Forestry Cadre School was restored in 1979, and was rebuilt into Shandong Agricultural Management Cadre College in 1983, and then rebuilt into Shandong Agricultural Engineering College in 2013.

Years of accumulation of school-running experience have forged the school's fine tradition of hard work and enterprising spirit, forming the school motto of "virtue, self-reliance, truth-seeking, and perseverance", the school spirit of "diligence, hard work, professionalism, and innovation", and the school-running philosophy of "student-centered, education-based, service-oriented, and strong connotation with characteristics". The school adheres to the overall leadership of the Party, implements the Party's education policy, closely focuses on the fundamental task of moral education, strictly follows the overall requirements for the development of applied universities, updates educational ideas, deepens comprehensive reforms, focuses on undergraduate teaching, and carries out the practice and exploration of applied undergraduate talent training. It is committed to cultivating high-quality applied talents who know and love agriculture with solid professional foundation, strong practical ability, good adaptability, patriotism and innovative spirit, and all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor. The school's school-running level and comprehensive strength have been significantly improved, and the school-running characteristics of "integration of agriculture and industry" have been initially formed. It has been rated as an excellent university for moral education in Shandong Province and an advanced collective for promoting agriculture through science and technology in Shandong Province.

School conditions: The school currently has three campuses in Jinan, Qihe and Zibo, covering an area of ​​3,682.17 acres, with a total building area of ​​718,000 square meters, of which 360,100 square meters are for teaching and administrative use. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 112.4518 million yuan. The library has 1.1017 million paper books. There are 84 laboratories, including 10 school-enterprise co-built laboratories, 18 on-campus internship and training bases such as the 500-acre ecological park, and two Shandong Provincial Key Laboratories for Intelligent Facility Agriculture Technology and Application, and Post-harvest Quality Control and Comprehensive Utilization of Specialty Agricultural Products. It has cooperated to build an academician workstation, 4 provincial engineering technology centers and engineering laboratories, and 1 provincial collaborative innovation center. There are 108 off-campus practical teaching bases and 36 social practice bases.

Faculty: There are 874 faculty and staff, including 580 full-time teachers, 61 professors, 170 associate professors, and 646 masters and above. There are 1 young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions in Shandong Province, 1 Qilu Rural Star, 3 provincial teaching teams, 1 Shandong Worker Pioneer (Team), 1 Shandong Advanced Learning Team, and 16 teachers who have won provincial honorary titles such as Top Ten Teachers of Shandong Universities, Shandong Teaching Masters, Shandong Excellent Teachers, Labor Medals for Enriching the People and Prospering Shandong, Shandong March 8 Red Flag Bearers, Provincial Excellent Science and Technology Workers, and Provincial Excellent Communist Party Members in the Education System.

Talent Training: There are 16 secondary colleges (departments), with 30 undergraduate majors covering agronomy, engineering, economics, management and other disciplines. There are 12,069 full-time undergraduate and junior college students. The school actively explores and promotes the construction of new agricultural and engineering disciplines, implements the "Three Projects", and has achieved certain construction and reform results. There are 1 provincial-level high-level applied project construction professional group, 4 provincial-level first-class majors, 9 provincial-level teaching reform pilot and characteristic majors, and 1 provincial-level applied talent training development support plan major; 2 national-level first-class courses, 15 provincial-level first-class courses; 2 national-level new agricultural science research and reform practice projects, and 110 Ministry of Education industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects; won 1 provincial-level teaching achievement special prize, 4 first prizes, and 9 second and third prizes.

Scientific research: Strengthen theoretical research and applied research, undertake 4 national-level projects, 81 provincial-level projects, 124 department-level projects, and undertake 33 horizontal projects; won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 5 provincial-level science and technology awards, and 24 department-level awards; has 155 national patent authorizations, formulated 36 local standards, and obtained 74 software copyrights; published 41 books and textbooks.

Open schooling: The school strengthens school-local, school-enterprise, and school-institute cooperation, integrates social resources, and has successively cooperated with a number of scientific research institutes and industry leading enterprises such as Shandong Provincial Land Surveying and Mapping Institute, Shandong Provincial Forest Germplasm Resources Center, Huawei, 360 Group, Shandong Hekangyuan, etc., to jointly build a collaborative education platform and internship training base. Jointly established the Smart Agriculture Industry College with Dingli Group. It has carried out school-local cooperation with Jinan City, Zibo City, and Dezhou City to expand the space for schooling, strengthen connotation construction, and serve regional economic and social development. Strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, carry out Sino-Australian cooperative education, and establish friendly cooperative relations with 25 universities in 10 countries such as South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Looking back on history, the school was established by agriculture, prospered by agriculture, and prospered by agriculture. Although it has been renamed several times, it has always been concerned about the "three rural issues" and the original intention of agricultural education has not changed. Taking root in the land of Qilu, rooting in agricultural education, serving regional economic and social development, and cultivating application-oriented talents are the historical mission and value pursuit of Shandong Agricultural Engineering College. At present, the school's undergraduate teaching is down-to-earth, and teaching reform is progressing steadily, and it is moving towards the goal of becoming a high-level applied undergraduate college with distinctive characteristics.

(Data as of March 2022)