General Introduction of Harbin University of Science and Technology
Harbin University of Science and Technology (HUST) is located in Harbin, a famous
city with beautiful scenery in China. Harbin belongs to the standard Chinese
Pronunciation Zone. It is the ideal place to learn Mandarin Chinese. Harbin is also
known as the "Moscow of the East" and the "Paris of the orient". Its landscape is very
beautiful and its architecture has special features. It is cool in summer, and skiing and
skating are available in winter. It is especially famous worldwide for the beautiful and
wonderful art of ice lanterns. Therefore, Harbin deserves the title of "International
Metropolis.
In 1995, three higher institutes, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin
Institute of Electrical Engineering and Harbin Higher Industrial Vocational College,
combined into the present Harbin University of Science and Technology (HUST).
Founded in the 1950s, the three all once belonged to the former Ministry of
Machinery. In 1998, HUST was transferred to the management of Heilongjiang
Province and is now the largest provincial polytechnic university. After 60 years of
development, HUST has become a teaching-research university with distinctive style
and comprehensive strength, focusing on the specialty of engineering and a
combination of engineering and science, with coordinated development of disciplines
of economics, management, philosophy, literature, law and education. In 2003, HUST
was awarded by the Ministry of Education as an excellent university in undergraduate
teaching evaluation.
HUST boasts four campuses, covering 2, 110, 000 m2, with a total infrastructure area
of 880, 000 m2. Its library has a collection of 2.37 million books, 150, 000 Chinese
and foreign journals and periodicals, 6.370 GB e-books, 30 literature databases and 2
self-built databases. The total number of teaching staff is 3,017, of whom 1,632 are
full-time faculty and 832 are associate professors or professors, one academician of
Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the total number of students has reached over
34,500(including over 200 international students).
HUST has 21 colleges, 1 teaching departments and 4 training centers, offering 56
bachelor degree programs and 11 junior college programs, 8 of which are state key
specialties, and 19 are provincial key programs; 52 master degree programs; 6
doctorate authorization first-level disciplines, 21 doctorate authorization second-level
disciplines; 18 engineering master degree authorization programs; 14 special master
programs for college teachers and an MBA degree authorization program; 6
post-doctoral research stations on Electrical Engineering, Instrument Science and
Technology, Material Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Business
Administration and Management Science and Engineering. High Voltage and
Insulation Technology is the state-level key discipline, and Equipment Manufacturing
Technology is the provincial key discipline group. There are 10 provincial key
disciplines. HUST also has a State University Technopark, a State Key Laboratory
Breeding Base, a Key Lab of Ministry of Education, an Engineering Research Center
of Ministry of Education, 6 provincial key laboratories (engineering centers), 6
provincial university key laboratories, 3 provincial university-enterprise engineering
research centers and one Design Institute of A-class qualification.
Since the 10th Five-Year Plan, HUST has undertaken 181 state projects including
“973 Programs”, “863 Programs” and State Natural Science Foundation, 980
provincial and ministerial projects and 1,500 enterprise-commissioned projects. For
the technological achievements, HUST has won a Second State Grade Prize of State
Technological Innovation, a Second Grade Prize of State Science and Technology
Progress, and more than 126 awards of provincial and ministerial level. In teaching
research, HUST has won 1 State Teaching Achievements Awards, 8 first-rate 44
second-rate Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards. The teaching and research
staff have published more than 300 academic books and more than 8,000 academic
papers, 2,000 of which have been collected into the three major retrieval systems.
HUST publishes 4 journals: Electric Machines and Control, Journal of Harbin
University of Science and Technology, Science-Technology and Management, and
Research of Ideological and Political Education, among which Electric Machines and
Control is collected into EI Compendex (core) database, and Journal of Harbin
University of Science and Technology is a state key journal.
With the guideline of coordinating internal and external resources, HUST actively
promotes international cooperation and academic exchanges. So far it has established
long-term cooperation with many universities or research institutes in more than
countries in Europe, America and the Asian-pacific region. Substantial achievements
have been made in teaching and learning, scientific research, and the cultivation of
talented personnel. To promote the construction of Shandong Peninsula’s
manufacturing base, HUST established Rongcheng College of HUST in 2006 with the
cooperation of Rongcheng City.
With 60 years of development, HUST has cultivated tens of thousands of talents for
manufacturing industry, and many graduates have become backbones in technical
field or leaders in large or medium enterprises. The university is renowned as the
“Cradle of Engineers”. At the turn of the 21st century, in order to become a first-class
local polytechnic university by 2020, HUST will “stabilize school size, improve
teaching quality, highlight school characteristics, and consolidate the basis for
high-level teaching-research university”.