| Located in the historical city of
Hangzhou, China, Hangzhou Dianzi University is an
institution of higher learning that offers multiple
disciplines of engineering, science, economics,
management, literature, law and education. While
highlighting electronics and information science, the
university is also fairly strong in the discipline of
business management. The predecessor of the university
is Hangzhou Aviation Finance and Economics School,
founded in 1956. In 1980, Hangzhou Institute of
Electronic Engineering was set up, which was later
renamed Hangzhou Dianzi in 2004. The university was at
first affiliated with the No. 4 Ministry of Mechanical
Industry, then with the Ministry of Electronic Industry
and still later with the Ministry of Information
Industry. Since 2000, the university has been under
Ministerial and Provincial leadership with the
Provincial Government playing the main management role.
Now, the university is a teaching and research oriented
university of Zhejiang for priority development. The
university’s three campuses, Xiasha Campus, Wenyi Campus
and Dongyue Campus, occupy a combined land area of 2,000
mu with a building area of 670,000 square meters. The
university has a current enrollment of more than 15,000
full-time undergraduates and postgraduates and a staff
of 1,300. It boasts the teaching and research equipment
valued over 100 million yuan, and book collection of 1
million volumes. The good teaching and research
facilities prepare the university for continued
improvement in education standard.
Since founding, the university has come to form a multi-tier
and multi-form talent fostering system, incorporating
undergraduate programs, postgraduate programs, adult
education programs and higher vocational education
programs. The university is also entitled to enroll
overseas students and students from HK , Macao and
Taiwan.
The university takes the lead among its peers in terms of
teaching and research facility. The Xiasha campus,
covering an area of 1700 mu, boasts the first class
facilities, including 40 research institutions, all
distinct and well-staffed, specializing in
Microelectronics CAD, Microelectronics CAE, Intelligence
Robot and so on; 8 provincial key laboratories under
Ministerial management, including LSI Design, System IC
Design, E-commerce and Corporate Informalization,
E-commerce and Accounting Computerization, Special
Processing, Computer Application Technology, Signal and
Information Processing, Electronic Materials and
Components; 2 provincial demo laboratories for core
curriculum of Electrotechnical & Electronic Fundamentals
and Computer Fundamentals.
The university attaches great importance to its academic work
and research. It has an outstanding research faculty
comprising leading experts with outstanding achievements
and profound knowledge, and young and middle-aged
professors and doctorate holders. The university has
completed a host of high-tech research projects and
Province or Ministry sponsored research projects，many of
which were awarded the national first and second prize
for scientific and technology progress, the National
Invention Prize, and the National Pedagogical
Achievement Prize. Furthermore, the university has
maintained a long-term research relationship with
hundreds of enterprises and companies, with overall
performance in research undertaking rated among the top
of its domestic peers and all provincial institutions.
The university serves as an important base in Zhejiang
for producing professionals, for carrying out scientific
research and for industrializing research results. It
has contributed to the social and economic development,
which has in turn benefited and promoted its educational
and academic development.
Over the years, the university has adhered to the right
education orientations. It resorts to reform and looks
to future development through coordinated improvement in
scale, structure, quality and effectiveness. It devotes
itself to fostering cross-disciplinary talents good with
innovative spirit and practical skills. As a result, it
is widely recognized for its good education standard.
Students from the university have kept receiving honors
in national and provincial general examinations as well
as the national mathematical modeling contest and
electronic design contest, testifying to their good
master of basic knowledge and skills, creativity and
overall quality. Graduates from the university are
highly acclaimed and well received by employers and
society. Also, the university is among the top few
universities in Zhejiang in terms of successful
employment rate and postgraduate program admission rate
of graduates.
At present, the university is at its prime time of
development. The staff and students, with concerted
effort, shall carry forward the tradition of working
hard in an effort to create a distinct and domestically
noted university that combines teaching and research
undertakings.
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