The school of Emergency Management of Jilin Province is the first school of emergency management in Jilin Province and the first school of emergency management among the three northeastern provinces. Jointly constructed by the Department of Emergency Management of Jilin Province and Changchun Institute of Technology(CIT), it is the first school in Jilin Province to enroll students majoring in Emergency Technology and Management, and it is a technical support unit for the Department of Emergency Management of Jilin Province.
The School has two undergraduate majors—Emergency Technology and Management and Safety Engineering, which are in the top set among the best in applied colleges and universities. The School has been qualified to enroll postgraduates in disaster prevention and reduction engineering and Protection Engineering (Emergency Management).
Based on the demand for safety and emergency technical talents in China, the School aims to cultivate applied senior talents with theoretical knowledge and professional skills, such as a sense of social responsibility, safety concept, emergency capacity, emergency management concept, an awareness in team cooperation, international vision and innovation spirit, risk assessment, hidden danger investigation and treatment, disaster monitoring and early alert, emergency response, accident site rescue, post disaster reconstruction. Furthermore, the School is meant to cultivate applied senior talents who can engage in research and development, analysis and design, management and evaluation, emergency rescue and accident handling in the related fields such as public safety, ecological environmental protection, disaster prevention and reduction, water conservancy and power and fire protection.
The School has a teaching and research team composed of a number of outstanding young and middle-aged doctors and senior professors who graduated from top universities in China, more than 90% of whom have doctoral degrees. Since its establishment, the School has undertaken more than 20 projects in the survey of natural disaster risk, preparation of emergency plan, design of the geological disaster management and risk assessment, which have been highly acclaimed by all walks of life.
The School now has Safety Man-Machine Laboratory, Safety Testing Laboratory, Safety Engineering Laboratory, VR Construction Safety Simulation, VR Simulation Training and Desktop Deduction Platform Laboratory, Natural Disaster Risk Prevention and Control Laboratory, and Building Fire Safety Laboratory, with equipment worth nearly ten million yuan.
