Wuhan University of Technology

Not to be confused with Wuhan University of Science and Technology.

Wuhan University of Technology
武汉理工大学

Former names	Wuhan Transportation University Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University
Motto	厚德博学，追求卓越
Motto in English	Sound in Morality, Broad in Learning and Pursuing Excellence
Type	National university
Established	1948 (Wuhan University of Technology) 1945 (Wuhan Transportation University) 1958 (Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University)
President	Zhang Qingjie
Academic staff	5,570
Undergraduates	36,000
Postgraduates	16,000
Location	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Website	www.whut.edu.cn

Simplified Chinese

武汉理工大学

Traditional Chinese

武漢理工大學

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Wǔhàn Lǐgōng Dàxué

Wuhan University of Technology (WUT or WHUT) - located in Wuhan, Hubei, China - was merged on May 27, 2000, from the former three universities, Wuhan University of Technology (established in 1948), Wuhan Transportation University (established in 1946) and Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University (established in 1958). WUT is one of the leading Chinese universities accredited by the Ministry of Education and one of the universities constructed in priority by the "State Project 211" for Chinese higher education institutions.^[1]

History

Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) was founded on May 27, 2000 from the former Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan Transportation University and Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University. Each of these three universities has its own uniquely important history.

The former Wuhan University of Technology dated back from three colleges, namely, Zhongnan Construction Engineering College in 1952, Shenyang Building Materials Industry College in 1958 and Beijing Institute of Building Engineering in 1958. Then in 1971, Beijing Institute of Building Engineering merged with Wuhan Construction Engineering School and thus formed Hubei Construction Industry College. Later in 1978, the college was awarded the title as national key university and then changed its name to Wuhan Institute of Building Materials. In 1985, the college changed its name to Wuhan University of Technology, which later passed the evaluation of "State 211 Project" in 1996 and entered into the direct administration of the Ministry of Education in 1998 before its merge with the other two universities in May 2000.

The former Wuhan Transportation University mainly originated from National Maritime Vocational School in 1946.Then in 1949, the college changed its name to Wuhan Transportation College. in 1952, the college changed its name to Wuhan River Transportation College. Later in 1957, the college changed its name to Wuhan University of Water Transportation Engineering which then received the discipline adjustment by the Ministry of Transportation in 1963. More importantly, the college merged with Wuhan River Transportation School and thus got its name as Wuhan University of Water Transportation Engineering. Later in 1993, the college was officially named as Wuhan Transportation University by the Ministry of Transportation before its merge with the other two universities in May 2000.

The former Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University came from the original Wuhan Institute of Technology which was founded in 1958. In 1959, it was merged into Hubei Chemical Engineering College. Then in 1961, the college merged with the other two colleges, respectively, Wuhan Institute of Technology and Hubei Industry College and thus named itself Wuhan Institute of Technology. During the next fifteen years, the Institute underwent great changes and was forced to change its name due to China's Cultural Revolution. Then in 1979, the Institute regained its name as Wuhan Institute of Technology. Later from 1983 to 1994, the Institute showed its rapid development in many aspects. Then in 1995, the Institute changed its name to Wuhan Automotive Polytechnic University. What was more, in 1999, Hubei No.1 Mechanical Industry School and Hubei Energy Economy School were merged into the university. Later in May 2000, it merged with the other two universities mentioned in the beginning and thus formed Wuhan University of Technology. ^[2]

Academic

Currently, university owns 23 academic schools, 9 state key disciplines, 74 Doctoral programs, 135 Master's programs as well as 82 Bachelor's programs. WUT has about 5,570 staff members, including 650 professors, 3 academicians of China Academy of Engineering and 3 academicians of China Academy of Science. Besides, over 36,000 undergraduates, 16000 postgraduates (including Master and PhD students), and 327 international students are studying at WUT.

The university has extensively established academic links with more than sixty external universities and institutions. The university has engaged more than one hundred famous foreign scholars as Concurrent or Honorary Professors for the university, and often receives experts, scholars and professors from other countries or regions to teach or do research. The university also sends abroad a number of teachers, professors, and scholars to study and to attend international academic conferences each year. Some of them have been engaged as Guest Professor, Special Professor or Lecturer by foreign host institutions. In 1950 the university began to admit foreign students and has awarded more than ten different countries’ students ever since with a bachelor, master's degree or a certificate for further study.

Schools

School of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Automotive Engineering
School of Transportation
School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering
School of Energy and Power Engineering
School of Resources and Environmental Engineering
School of Information Engineering
School of Computer Science and Technology
School of Automation
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture
School of Navigation
School of Logistics Engineering
School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science
School of Sciences
School of Management
School of Economics
School of Art and Law
School of Art and Design
School of Foreign Languages
School of Politics and Administration
Institute of Higher Education
School of Vocational Technology
School of International Education
School of On-line and Continuing Education
Department of Physical Education

Research

WUT possesses 27 innovative research centers with international leading level including two State Key Laboratories, a State Engineering Laboratory and provincial or ministerial level laboratories in the areas of new materials, new energy, transportation and logistics, mechatronics and automobile, information technology as well as resources and environmental technology. In recent 10 years, WUT has obtained nearly RMB 3 billion of fundings from government and industrial sectors for high-tech research and development, and has made a lot of innovative and important technological achievements. Meanwhile, the University has established its Science Park in Wuhan·China Optical Valley, covering an area of 58.7 hectares, where it has incubated and fostered more than 6 high-tech enterprises based on new materials, fiber optical sensors, high-speed shipping, new energy technology and advanced manufacturing. In 2010, the total revenue of the Science Park reached RMB1.58 billion.

WUT has formed three important Boards of Directors with the industrial sectors of building materials and construction industry, transportation industry and automobile industry, totally covering 167 large backbone enterprises. The Boards of Directors hold annual meetings regularly to discuss the important issues concerning the mutual development between the university and the three industrial sectors. Meanwhile, WUT has established cooperative relations for students exchange and scientific research with more than 100 foreign universities and research institutions from USA, UK, Japan, France, Australia, Russia and the Netherlands, etc. and invited over 200 international famous scholars to be guest professors or honorary professors.

In 2006 and 2007, the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and the Ministry of Education made a joint approval of establishing a state base in WUT for discipline innovation and talent import in the field of advanced materials technology and high-speed shipping technnology. In 2008, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved WUT to establish an internationally joint research center for advanced materials technology. In 2009, WUT-Harvard Joint Key Laboratory was set up with Dr. Charles M. Lieber, professor of Harvard University, inventor of international nano materials and fellow of American Academy of Science as the director. In 2010, Thermoelectric Materials Research Team of WUT Entered China-US Clean Energy Joint Research Centre.

Campus

Wuhan University of Technology(WUT) is located in Wuhan, the largest city in Central China and a Chinese famous "River City". The university has three main campuses, namely, the Mafanshan Campus, the Yujiatou Campus and the South Lake new Campus, with a total occupying land area of 267 hectares. Bordering the South Lake, the new university is situated on the south bank of Yangtze River in Wuhan. It has two main campuses, one at Mafangshan Hill and one at Yujiatou in Wuchang. The total area of the campus is 450 acres (1.8 km²). WUT has a building floorage of 1,100,000 square meters and it possesses three libraries with a stock of 2,720,000 books.

Rankings

Wuhan University of Technology ranked 39th in Wu Shulian's university ranking in 2008,^[3] one of the most popular university ranking in China.^[4] This placed it third among universities in Wuhan, after Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University.^[5] According to the world university rankings 2013 by Times Higher Education, Wuhan University of Technology ranked 58th in Asian (8th in P.R. China and between 301st to 350th in the world.).^[6] In the inaugural BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2014, Wuhan University of Technology was ranked 28th overall and 9th in China, thus becoming the best ranked university in the city of Wuhan. ^[7]

References

↑ "ӭ人ѧվ". Retrieved 18 July 2015.
↑ WUT History (English Ver)
↑ "2008中国大学排行榜：清华大学连续12年夺魁_新闻大滚动_教育_腾讯网". Retrieved 18 July 2015.
↑ "武书连：2008中国大学排行榜_腾讯教育频道_腾讯网". Retrieved 18 July 2015.
↑ "2009年湖北省大学实力排行前10名_新闻大滚动_教育_腾讯网". Retrieved 18 July 2015.
↑ "Asia University Rankings 2013". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
↑ "BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2014". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 18 July 2015.

External links

Project 211

Higher education and universities in China

Beijing	Beijing Foreign Studies University Beijing Forestry University Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing Normal University Beihang University Beijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing University of Technology Central Conservatory of Music Central University of Finance and Economics China Agricultural University China University of Geosciences China University of Mining and Technology China University of Political Science and Law Communication University of China Minzu University of China North China Electric Power University Peking Union Medical College Peking University Renmin University of China Tsinghua University University of International Business and Economics University of Science and Technology Beijing

Shanghai	Donghua University East China Normal University East China University of Science and Technology Fudan University Second Military Medical University Shanghai International Studies University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai University Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Tongji University

Tianjin	Nankai University Tianjin Medical University Tianjin University

Chongqing	Chongqing University

Anhui	Anhui University Hefei University of Technology University of Science and Technology of China

Fujian	Xiamen University Fuzhou University

Guangdong	Jinan University South China Normal University South China University of Technology Sun Yat-sen University

Guizhou	Guizhou University

Gansu	Lanzhou University

Hainan	Hainan University

Hebei	Hebei University of Technology

Heilongjiang	Harbin Engineering University Harbin Institute of Technology Northeast Agricultural University Northeast Forestry University

Henan	Zhengzhou University

Hubei	China University of Geosciences Wuhan University Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan University of Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Huazhong Normal University Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Hunan	Central South University Hunan Normal University Hunan University National University of Defense Technology

Jiangsu	China Pharmaceutical University Hohai University Jiangnan University Nanjing Aeronautics and Astronautics University Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Normal University Nanjing University Nanjing University of Science and Technology Soochow University Southeast University

Jiangxi	Nanchang University

Jilin	Jilin University Northeast Normal University Yanbian University

Liaoning	Dalian Maritime University Dalian University of Technology Liaoning University Northeastern University

Qinghai	Qinghai University

Shaanxi	Chang'an University Fourth Military Medical University Northwest A&F University Northwest University Northwestern Polytechnical University Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an Jiaotong University Xidian University

Shandong	China University of Petroleum (Huadong) Shandong University Ocean University of China

Shanxi	Taiyuan University of Technology

Sichuan	Sichuan Agricultural University Sichuan University Southwest Jiaotong University Southwestern University of Finance and Economics University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Yunnan	Yunnan University

Zhejiang	Zhejiang University

Guangxi	Guangxi University

Inner Mongolia	Inner Mongolia University

Ningxia	Ningxia University

Tibet	Tibet University

Xinjiang	Shihezi University Xinjiang University

See also: Project 985

Universities and colleges in Hubei

National

Other Public

In Wuhan	Hubei University Jianghan University Wuhan University of Science and Technology Hubei University of Technology Wuhan Institute of Technology Wuhan Textile University Hubei University of Chinese Medicine Wuhan Polytechnic University Hubei University of Education Hubei University of Economics Wuhan Institute of Physical Education Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Wuhan Conservatory of Music Hubei University of Police Yangtze University (Wuhan Campus) Wuhan Business University

Elsewhere	Yangtze University China Three Gorges University Hubei Institute for Nationalities Hubei University of Arts and Science Hubei Engineering University Yunyang Medical College Hubei University of Automotive Technology Huanggang Normal University Huangshi Institute of Technology Hubei Normal University Jingchu University of Technology Hubei University of Science and Technology

Private

Independent	Hankou University Wuhan Yangtze Business University Wuhan Donghu University Wuchang University of Technology Wuchang Institute of Technology Wuhan Bioengineering Institute

Affiliated	Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wenhua College Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuchang Branch Jiang Cheng College, China University of Geosciences Wuhan University of Technology Huaxia College Zhixing College of Hubei University City College, Wuhan University of Science and Technology Hubei University of Technology Engineering and Technology College Business College, Hubei University of Technology International Business Economic College Wuhan Textile University The College of Post and Telecommunication of Wuhan Institute of Technology College of Law and Business of Hubei University of Economics Zhongnan University of Economics and Law Wuhan College Chutian College Huazhong Agricultural University Luojia College, Wuhan University Wuhan Media and Communication College of Huazhong Normal University College of Arts and Sciences of Jianghan University Wuhan Institute of Physical Education School of Sport Science and Technology

Military

Naval Engeering University
College of Second Artillery Corps Officers
Defense Information College
Military College of Economics
College of Air Force Detection
College of People's Armed Police Officers
Wuhan School of Ordnance Officers

Vocational

Wuhan Commercial Service College
Wuhan Vocational College of Software and Engineering
Wuhan Electrical Technical Power College

See also: List of universities in China

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