Shandong Jianzhu University is an engineering-based multidisciplinary university specialized in civil construction, also covering engineering, science, management, literature, arts, law and agriculture. The new campus is located in emerging east Jinan, the City of Spring with a time-honored cultural history and beautiful natural landscape, in Shandong province, adjacent to the East Jingshi Road in the south, the Century Avenue in the north, the Jinan Administration Approval Service Center and Jinan Olympic Sports Center, boasting its superior geographical location and convenient traffic.
1. History
Initially the Jinan Urban Construction Engineering College set up by the former Ministry of Urban Construction in 1956; it was upgraded to a university for undergraduate education in 1958. Then it was successively renamed Shandong Institute of Architecture and Shandong School of Architecture. In 1978, it was reborn as the Shandong Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering. In 1982, it was listed among the earliest universities entitled to award bachelor's degree. In 1997, it passed the appraisal on undergraduate education by the former State Education Commission. In 1998, it was approved by the Committee of the State Council Academic Degrees to award master’s degree. In 2006, it was renamed Shandong Jianzhu University as approved by the Ministry of Education. In 2007, it was appraised as an excellent university for undergraduate education by the Ministry of Education. In 2012, it succeeded in applying for the projects for cultivating talents with doctor’s degree for special purposes in China and was approved to be one of the first well known universities for cultivating applied talents in Shandong province, signifying a new stage for its development.
2. Discipline and programs
Shandong Jianzhu University also pays much attention to discipline development, considering it a key to build the university’s core competitiveness. By highlighting the advantage and feature of civil engineering and boosting the cross-development of conventional and emerging disciplines, the university continuously improves the mix of disciplines and the level of research and development and has developed a number of advantageous fields, such as civil engineering, urban planning and building design, intelligent buildings and building energy conservation.
3. Academic facilities and scientific research
It has one key laboratory jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Shandong Province, three disciplines with professorship of Taishan Scholar, three provincial key laboratories, seven provincial engineering and technological research centers, one provincial intangible cultural heritage research base. In the review of key programs of Shandong province for the 12th Five-Year Plan, the university was recognized to have ten provincial key disciplines, four key laboratories in universities of Shandong and one provincial university humanity and social science research base, among which two were rated specialty disciplines and one laboratory recognized as a provincial key laboratory to receive stronger support. These signify breakthroughs in the development of disciplinary platform.
4. Great achievements
Always admitting the key role of scientific research in cultivating high-quality talents and enhancing the core competitiveness, the university keeps improving the management system, promoting the integration and optimization of resources, which greatly improves the innovation capacity and produces a number of significant high-level achievements and awards. In the past five years, it has undertaken more than 400 research programs at and above provincial level with funds totaling CNY 300 million. It has won more than 80 awards at and above provincial level, including one National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize, four Shandong Province Science and Technology Progress First Prizes. The university’s teachers have published more than 7,000 papers, among which 635 are indexed by SCI, EI and ISTP, 540 monographs and textbooks, and won 180 national patents. The Journal of Shandong Jianzhu University is listed among the source journals for Chinese scientific and technical papers and citations.
5. Communication and international cooperation
Shandong Jianzhu University has established close relationship with the United States, Britain, German, Australia, Taiwan, Hongkong and other 18 countries and regions. At the same time, more than 40 high institutions and countries from these countries also cooperated with SDJZU, and opened 9 items of education, 10 items of students visiting programs,
In the period to come, the university will further implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, commit to meeting the strategic needs of building an innovative country and regional economic and social development, unswervingly develop in a quality first, feature-focused, open and harmonious manner, thoroughly implement the strategies of Quality Improvement, Focus on Discipline Development, Talent Strategy, Management Innovation, and Develop Distinctive Culture, keep improving the core competitiveness and comprehensive strength, expedite the progress of building a university focusing on teaching and research to make new and greater contributions to regional economic and social development.
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