Henan Urban Construction College

Henan Urban Construction College is the only provincial undergraduate college in Henan Province that focuses on engineering and features "urban construction" and has coordinated development of multiple disciplines. It is also one of the only two undergraduate colleges in the country named "urban construction". The school is located in the New City District of Pingdingshan City, an excellent tourist city and garden city in China. It is adjacent to Baigui Lake in the south and Daxiang Mountain in the north. It is lush with vegetation, birds singing and flowers blooming, and the learning and living environment is pleasant.

Henan Urban Construction College was formerly the Pingdingshan Urban Construction and Environmental Protection School founded in 1983 and the Henan Branch of Wuhan Urban Construction College in 1985. It has gone through the historical periods of Henan Urban Construction College and Pingdingshan Institute of Technology. In 2002, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to be upgraded to an undergraduate college and renamed Henan Urban Construction College in 2008.

The school has outstanding advantages in engineering and distinctive characteristics in urban construction disciplines. It has 54 undergraduate majors covering eight major disciplines including engineering, management, science, literature, law, and art. It has 17 colleges, including the School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, the School of Management, the School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the School of Energy and Architectural Environment Engineering, the School of Surveying and Urban Spatial Information, the School of Art and Design, the School of Computer and Data Science, the School of Electrical and Control Engineering, the School of Materials and Chemical Engineering, the School of Life Sciences and Engineering, the School of Mathematics and Physics, the School of Foreign Languages, the School of Law, the School of International Education, the School of Marxism, and the School of Continuing Education. It recruits students from 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) and international students. Currently, there are 20,391 full-time students and 12,843 adult education students of various types.

The school covers an area of ​​1,730 acres, with a total building area of ​​more than 720,200 square meters and two campuses. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 330 million yuan, there are 105 teaching laboratories (centers), 11 on-campus training and internship sites, 1.92 million paper books, 1.55 million electronic books, and 139,000 Chinese and foreign electronic journals. It has 45 Chinese and foreign databases such as CNKI, Chaoxing, Wanfang, Ei Village, ASCE, SpringerLink, etc., and various sports fields and gymnasiums cover an area of ​​nearly 110,800 square meters. It has built academic lecture halls with complete functions, gymnasiums, high-standard sports fields, digital campus network systems, and self-service book borrowing and returning systems. It has built the Henan Urban Construction Museum and Li Jie Architectural Culture Research Institute. There are about 1,500 faculty and staff, including about 1,100 full-time teachers, more than 400 teachers with senior professional titles, more than 1,100 faculty and staff with doctoral and master's degrees, 23 specially appointed professors, lecture professors, and visiting professors, and 63 academic and technical leaders at the municipal and departmental levels or above.

The school pays attention to connotation construction, and has 1 national characteristic major and 1 off-campus practical education base for college students; 7 provincial characteristic majors, 9 comprehensive reform pilot majors, 2 pilot majors for the reform of engineering education talent training mode, 8 experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 6 off-campus practical education bases for college students, 3 teaching teams, 16 excellent grassroots teaching organizations, 1 curriculum ideological and political teaching team, 8 provincial-level quality courses, 3 provincial-level quality resource sharing courses, 19 provincial-level quality online open courses, 29 provincial-level first-class courses, and 9 provincial-level curriculum ideological and political model courses; 5 provincial key disciplines, 1 key laboratory, 1 international joint laboratory, 4 engineering laboratories, 5 engineering technology research centers, 5 engineering research centers, 1 Star Creation Space, and 3 other innovation platforms. In the past three years, the university has undertaken 206 scientific and technological projects at or above the provincial and ministerial level, including major scientific and technological projects and the National Natural Science Foundation, and has been approved for 99 industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects of the Ministry of Education; published 225 books and textbooks; published 526 high-quality papers; obtained 375 authorized patents; selected as the "Top Ten Fast Universities" in Henan Intellectual Property Construction for three consecutive years; and won 582 scientific research awards at all levels and types, including the Henan Science and Technology Progress Award. In recent years, the school has successively passed the teaching work qualification assessment and review assessment of ordinary undergraduate colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, and the majors of architectural environment and energy application engineering, engineering management, water supply and drainage science and engineering, urban and rural planning, and civil engineering have passed the higher education professional assessment of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the majors of surveying and mapping engineering and civil engineering have passed the engineering education professional certification. Civil engineering, engineering cost (digital construction direction), urban and rural planning, electrical engineering and automation (intelligent power transmission and distribution direction), water supply and drainage science and engineering, architecture, engineering management, architectural environment and energy application engineering, data science and big data technology, surveying and mapping engineering (intelligent surveying and mapping direction), and transportation engineering are 11 undergraduate majors for first-class enrollment. 16 majors including electrical engineering and automation, digital media technology, transportation engineering, engineering management, civil engineering, building environment and energy application engineering, water supply and drainage science and engineering, surveying and mapping engineering, urban and rural planning, inorganic non-metallic materials engineering, data science and big data technology, road bridge and river crossing engineering, architecture, engineering cost, and environmental design have been approved as first-class undergraduate major construction sites in Henan Province. It has been approved as a key project construction unit for master's degree awarding authority. It has jointly trained master's students with 20 universities including Zhengzhou University, Lanzhou University, Hebei University of Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, North China University of Water Resources and Hydropower, and Liaoning University of Chemical Technology.

The school attaches importance to the cultivation of students' comprehensive quality and innovation ability, carries out dual degree education, implements the credit system, and implements the college system reform. In the past three years, it has won more than 1,700 national and provincial awards in the "Internet +" and "Challenge Cup" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competitions and various college student subject competitions. It has an innovation and entrepreneurship college, and has built various innovation and entrepreneurship platforms such as the Cainiao Maker Space and the University Student Entrepreneurship Incubation Park. It has been approved as a model school for university student entrepreneurship education in Henan Province, a provincial-level mass innovation space in Henan Province, a demonstration base for university student innovation and entrepreneurship practice in Henan Province, and the first batch of demonstration universities in Henan Province for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. It has a strong atmosphere of innovation and entrepreneurship, and the quality of graduates has been fully recognized by employers. The employment rate ranks among the top universities in the province. The "Henan Province Central Henan and Urban Construction University and Technical Secondary School Graduate Employment Market" is located in our school, which provides convenient conditions for the employment of urban construction graduates in the school and even the province. The school is ranked 20th among non-"211" undergraduate colleges in the central and southern regions in the MyCOS network university student employment ability ranking, and is the only non-"211" university in Henan Province that ranks in the top 20. In 2012, the school was rated as a "national graduate employment typical experience university" by the Ministry of Education. In 2017, the school was selected as a pilot unit of the Ministry of Education's "Hundreds of Millions of Projects" project. In the Wu Shulian University Rankings of the "2021 China University Evaluation" project results, the school's undergraduate graduate quality ranked 9th among universities in the province.

The school implements the strategy of "school-enterprise cooperation, integration of production and education", and has built the Henan Urban Comprehensive Design Institute and the Hundred Cities Construction Technology Institute. It has also built the Henan Urban Construction College Branch of the Damdao Engineering Hospital, the Henan Urban and Rural Planning Big Data Application Technology Engineering Research Center, the Henan Digital Construction Engineering Technology Research Center, the Henan High-resolution Data Pingdingshan Branch, the Baiguihu National Wetland Park Ecological Research and Monitoring Center, the Henan Urban Solid Waste Comprehensive Disposal and Ecological Utilization Collaborative Innovation Center, the Smart Construction Industry College, the Urban Construction Development Center, the Yuxin Industrial Information Technology Research Institute, the Healthy Food Collaborative Innovation Center, the Nylon Industry Technology College and other scientific research and innovation service platforms. It has carried out in-depth cooperation with the government and enterprises, actively played its role in serving the society, and produced good economic and social benefits.

The school adheres to open education, continuously expands and deepens foreign exchanges, actively carries out education for international students in China, and conducts teaching and scientific research cooperation with well-known foreign universities such as Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Hungary, Belarus, Cyprus, Japan, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines. Since 2013, the university has successively carried out undergraduate Sino-foreign cooperative education projects with the University of the Highlands and Islands in the UK and the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Russia. Currently, there are nearly 1,200 international cooperative education projects and international students in the school.

The school adheres to the school motto of "virtue and truth, erudition and careful thinking", promotes the school-running philosophy of "enlightenment and learning, unity of knowledge and action" and the university spirit of "self-improvement and pursuit of excellence", takes moral education as the foundation, strives to reform and innovate, promotes transformation and upgrading, and actively serves the local economic, social and industrial development. It has achieved remarkable results and has been widely praised by the superior authorities and all sectors of society. It has been awarded the top 50 universities in the country for typical graduate employment, the National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee, the National Model Workers' Home, the National Advanced University for the Socialization Reform of Logistics in Colleges and Universities for Ten Years, the Henan Province "Three-dimensional Education" Comprehensive Reform Pilot University, the Advanced Unit of Party Building in Higher Education Institutions in Henan Province, the Advanced Unit of Grassroots Party Organization Construction in Higher Education Institutions in Henan Province, the Model of Civilized Campus in Henan Province, the Advanced Unit of School Conduct Construction in Henan Province, and the Psychological Health of Higher Education Institutions in Henan Province Education Demonstration Unit, Advanced Unit of Henan National Student Loan Work, Demonstration College with the Most Employment Competitiveness in Henan, Science Education Base of China Architecture Society, Colleges and Universities Satisfied by Henan People in the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China, Colleges and Universities with the Most Domestic Employment Competitiveness in Henan in the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China, Henan Smart Campus Pilot Colleges and Universities, Henan Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration School, Henan Provincial Maker Space, Henan College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Practice Demonstration Base, Henan First Batch of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform Demonstration Colleges and Universities, 2020 Henan Higher Education Model Demonstration Colleges, 2020 Domestic High-Quality Employment Demonstration Colleges, Henan First Batch of Credit System Management Demonstration Colleges, Henan Undergraduate Academic Tutor System Reform Pilot Colleges, Henan Province "14th Five-Year Plan" Key Construction Demonstration Applied Technology Type Undergraduate Colleges and Universities, etc.

Looking into the future, the university will continue to adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, fully implement the party's education policy, grasp the new development stage, implement the new development concept, seize the strategic opportunity of building a new development pattern, adhere to talent training as the center, and take moral education as the fundamental task. With "continuous transformation and development, deepening comprehensive reform, and deepening the integration of industry and education" as the basic strategy, we will improve the level of school running, build a high-quality, professional and innovative faculty, cultivate international characteristics, promote the modernization of university governance system and governance capabilities, and strive to cultivate high-level application-oriented talents with industry backgrounds, achieve high quality of talent training and scientific and technological innovation services, and strive to build a high-level application technology-oriented Henan University of Architecture and Engineering.

(Updated in April 2022)