Formerly known as the Department of Information Engineering in 2012, the School of Computer Technology and Engineering is currently composed of 4 undergraduate majors—Computer Science and Technology, Software Engineering, Internet of Things Engineering, and Data Science and Big Data Technology, with more than 1100 full-time students. The majors of Software Engineering and Computer Science and Technology were approved as First-class majors in Jilin Province.
The School has 81 faculty and staff, including 7 with senior titles, 27 with deputy senior titles and 16 with doctoral degrees. Most of the teachers have received training from IT companies such as Microsoft, Huawei, IBM and Alibaba.
In recent years, teachers of the School have undertaken more than 40 provincial and ministerial education and teaching research and reform projects, published more than 100 papers on education research and reform, and won 6 provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards. 175 scientific research projects has been approved, including 6 national projects, 64 provincial and ministerial projects. More than 300 papers and 10 academic monographs and textbooks were published, and 33 national invention patents were authorized.; There are 2 provincial science and technology platforms—Jilin Provincial Water Conservancy and Power Engineering Physical Level Simulation and Safety Science and Technology Innovation Center and Distribution Network Measurement and Big Data Analysis Collaborative Innovation Center and a key discipline—Computer Science and Technology.
The School and Qingdao Software Education Co., Ltd. signed a cooperative joint school-running agreement. The School has signed cooperation agreements and constructed the training bases with more than 20 enterprises, including Alibaba, China Soft Education Group, Neusoft Education Group, and UNIX. The School aims to cultivate advanced applied professionals and high skilled practical talents in the IT industry, and focuses on cultivating students’ engineering practical skills, excellent comprehensive quality and scientific and technological innovation awareness. Approximately 10% of undergraduate graduates are admitted to master degree program every year.
Students won 557 awards, with 69 national awards in the National Internet+Competition, National Artificial Intelligence and Robot Competition, ACM Competition and other competitions. Students obtained 20 patents, 3 utility model patents and 17 software copyrights.
