| Shanghai Institute of Technology (SIT) is a high-levelled,
multi-disciplined, application-oriented full-time institution of
tertiary education. Authorized by Chinese Ministry of Education in
April, 2000, SIT was established by merging the former three
institutions which had a history of over fifty years.
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| SIT is located in the south-western part of Shanghai,
which is adjacent to Cao Hejing hi-park. Currently, the registered
full-time students in the Institute approximately number over 11,000;
among the total staff of over1800,
there are more than 600 full-time teachers, over two hundred of whom are
supervisors for master degree and doctor degree candidates
as well as professors and associate professors.
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| Over the past few
years, SIT has already successfully built up a quite dynamic and high-levelled
academic team, engaged in both teaching activities and scientific
research with quite a number of outstanding guides in the course of key disciplines
and master teachers in core courses for different programs. The past few
years have witnessed such substantial progress in scientific research
that SIT has been repeatedly awarded prizes covering the Progress in
Scientific Research and Success in Educational Research at the state,
ministerial or municipal levels. Presently, SIT has been
undertaking numerous projects of National
Natural Science Foundation (NSF), the
earlier stage programs of National Basic Research Program, Shanghai
Natural Science Foundation, Shanghai Municipal Dawn Plan
and other projects at provincial and municipal levels.
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| While
conducting the three-year vocational
education, SIT is mainly devoted to the running of the
bachelor's degree programs. The Institute consists of a Modern
Education Centre, two departments and eleven schools, all of which cover
'materials science and engineering, mechanical and automation
engineering, computer science and information engineering, civil
engineering and architecture, environment and energy engineering,
chemical engineering, biotechnology and food processing engineering, art
and design, economics and business administration, foreign languages,
social sciences among others. Among them, the disciplines of material
processing engineering, applied chemistry, light-industry
technique and engineering, art design and mechanic
manufacturing and automation have been selected by Shanghai Municipal government,
Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and SIT as Key incubated
Disciplines. The discipline of
Applied Chemistry has been authorized to run the postgraduate programme.
Till now SIT has been maintaining close ties with tertiary universities
of the countries like Germany, U.S.A., Australia, Canada, U.K., France,
New Zealand, Japan in conducting the exchange programmes in scientific
and technological research and in the establishment and implementation
of collaborative schemes of cooperation of tertiary education, the
latter of which covers the programs in 'Electronic Engineering and
Automation, Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation, Applied
Chemistry and Economic Administration?
SIT has been making determined effort
to cultivate its students in an all-round way, namely, morally,
intellectually, physically and train them to become advanced engineering
and technological personnel who are armed with knowledge of modern
science and a remarkable ability in application and problem-solving
undertaking. SIT endeavours to build the university into a high-levelled,
application-oriented, multiple-disciplined university of higher learning
with its outstanding features and into "a cradle for engineers? The
graduates of SIT are welcomed and favourably appraised by various
circles in Shanghai and other parts of China. Presently SIT is entering
a new phase of development with the scope for running the university
being expanded and connotation construction being strengthened.
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