Over the past 60 years, the school has always been based on the hard industry of geology and mineral resources and is located in a hard area. Generation after generation of Liaoning University of Technology has been adhering to the motto of "being honest, realistic, knowledgeable and practical" and carrying forward the "unpretentious, tenacious and selfless" Sunstone spirit. They have worked hard, started their own businesses, and strived for self-improvement. They have created brilliant achievements and made remarkable achievements. The scale of running a school is constantly expanding, the level of running a school is constantly improving, and the strength of running a school is significantly enhanced. 1978 was identified by the State Council as one of the first batch of 88 key universities in China, 198 1 was approved as the first batch of master's degree awarding units, 1993 was approved as the doctoral degree awarding unit, and 1999 was approved to set up a postdoctoral research mobile station. In the same year, the school became an authorized unit for master's degree in engineering. Now it has become a well-known institution of higher learning integrating talent training, scientific research and social service, with many disciplines such as engineering, management, science, economics, literature, law, agriculture and education, with outstanding school-running characteristics, perfect school-running facilities and strong teachers. At present, there are 2 1 department and 103 undergraduate and higher vocational majors, including the School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, the School of Safety Science and Engineering, the School of Mechanics and Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering. At present, there are more than 39,000 registered students, including more than 30,000 full-time doctoral students, master students, undergraduates, vocational college students and international students.
Liaoning University of Technology has perfect teaching and research facilities and elegant learning and living environment. The school has Fuxin campus and Huludao campus, covering an area of 4,240 mu, of which Fuxin campus covers an area of 1.900 mu and Huludao campus covers an area of 2,340 mu. The campus is lined with quaint and elegant buildings with a building area of 784,000 square meters. 12000 square meters modern library, with a collection of 6,543,800 volumes and more than 2,000 Chinese and foreign periodicals. Journal of Liaoning University of Engineering Technology (Natural Science Edition) and Journal of Liaoning University of Engineering Technology (Social Science Edition) edited and published by the school are both published at home and abroad, among which Journal of Liaoning University of Engineering Technology (Natural Science Edition) has entered the academic journals of EI and China (CD-ROM Edition) and entered the domestic core journals for the first time.
Discipline construction is the foundation of colleges and universities. Liaoning University of Technology holds high the banner of geology and mineral resources and takes the road of characteristic development. It has a number of traditional disciplines with distinctive characteristics and strong strength, as well as a number of dynamic emerging disciplines. There are 3 postdoctoral research stations in mining engineering, mechanics, surveying and mapping science and technology, 3 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 19 two disciplines doctoral degree authorization points, 6 first-class discipline master degree authorization points, 4 1 master degree authorization points,1engineering master degree authorization fields. There are 1 national key discipline, 9 provincial key disciplines, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national safety production technology basic research center,1provincial key construction laboratory and 5 national characteristic specialties, which have formed a national economic construction and Liaoning province.
A first-class university must have a first-class faculty. Liaoning University of Technology has always adhered to the concept of talent-oriented and teacher-centered, and made efforts to cultivate high-quality outstanding academic leaders, strengthen the team building of young and middle-aged people, and strive to build a team of teachers with optimized structure, excellent quality, strong innovation ability and meeting the needs of school development. There are more than 600 full-time teachers/kloc-0, including 2 academicians and more than 600 professors and associate professors. More than 240 people have or are studying for doctoral degrees; There are 1 national teaching teams, 4 provincial teaching teams and 5 innovative teams in Liaoning universities. 1 teacher was identified as a national candidate for the 100 million talents project in the new century; 1 The teacher won the National Top 100 University Teaching Master Award; A group of teachers have been identified as provincial and ministerial academic leaders, members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, members of the expert review team of the National Natural Science Foundation, members of the national safety production expert group, members of the National Coal Industry and Technology Committee, members of the academic review team of the Provincial Academic Degrees Committee and members of the editorial boards of various academic journals.
Liaoning University of Technology regards the quality of talent training as the life of the school, aiming at cultivating applied innovative talents with international vision, innovative spirit and strong practical ability. Efforts should be made to build and implement a training system for applied innovative talents, and to pursue quality close to the market, quality with development potential and quality with social responsibility. In 2006, the school passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with excellent results. In recent years, more than 40 teaching achievements in our school have won the National and Liaoning Excellent Teaching Achievement Awards. Our school has achieved excellent results in national and provincial unified examinations, teaching quality testing and various competitions. The employment rate of graduates has reached more than 95% year after year, ranking among the top universities in Liaoning Province. With the characteristics of hard work, courage to practice, unity and cooperation, and willingness to contribute, the majority of graduates have won the welcome of state organs, enterprises and institutions and the praise of the society. The academic affairs office and the student affairs office of the school have been successively rated as excellent academic affairs offices of national colleges and universities and advanced collectives for employment of graduates of national colleges and universities by the Ministry of Education.
As an important scientific research base, Liaoning University of Technology has strong basic research, applied research and scientific and technological development capabilities, as well as interdisciplinary comprehensive scientific and technological advantages. It not only serves the coal industry, but also continuously increases the service for local economic construction, promotes Industry-University-Research's cooperation and broadens the service field. The school has established long-term cooperative relations and technical alliances with hundreds of large enterprises in more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 3,500 national key scientific research projects, national natural science foundation, national "973" plan and national "863" high-tech research projects, with scientific and technological funds of 350 million yuan. More than 500 achievements have passed provincial and ministerial level appraisal, and more than 240 achievements have won national and provincial and ministerial level awards, with a number of key technologies with independent intellectual property rights. It has formed obvious advantages and outstanding characteristics in the research fields of mine disaster control, safety technology and engineering, surveying and mapping science and engineering, management science and engineering, machinery manufacturing and so on. It has reached the international advanced level in many research fields such as mining subsidence control, "three underground" coal mining, rock burst prediction and prevention, geo-dynamic zoning, coal spontaneous combustion fire prevention and control. The school participated in the China International Hi-tech Fair continuously and won the "Excellent Organization Award of China International Hi-tech Fair" for three times. It has held more than 50 international and national academic conferences, such as the 12th Congress of the International Mining Survey Association and the International Conference on Modern Mining and Safety, with high academic reputation and international popularity.
Liaoning University of Technology has always adhered to the road of internationalization and openness, and its foreign exchanges and cooperation are expanding day by day. We have established inter-school contacts and academic exchanges with many universities and research institutes in the United States, Russia, Vietnam, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Japan and other countries 10, and signed cooperation agreements with foreign universities such as Queensland University in Australia, Bitoria University in South Africa, Technical University in Berlin, and Akita University in Japan to exchange experts. The school has hired a large number of foreign teachers and experts to teach, established a multi-level and multi-category training system that can train language students, undergraduates, master students and doctoral students at the same time, and cooperated with foreign research institutes to undertake dozens of scientific research projects. The school has established "2+2" and "3+ 1" joint training modes with the University of Wollongong in Australia and Vietnam Institute of Mining and Technology, and signed a joint training agreement with Kloster Technical University in Germany.
The campus cultural life of Liaoning University of Technology is rich and colorful. As the only university in Liaoning Province, the school was identified by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance as the second batch of universities to implement innovative experimental projects for college students, and 20 national innovative experimental projects were approved at the same time. As the first batch of national college students' quality development plan pilot universities, the school creatively constructed and implemented a new model of quality development, which organically integrated the first classroom and the second classroom-double-embedded quality development credit model. The content of quality development activities has been continuously enriched, and the quantity and quality have been continuously improved, forming a school-level campus cultural activity system with the framework of "one session", "two months", "three kinds of lectures", "four projects" and "fifteen activities". In recent years, our students have won more than 600 prizes in various scientific and technological academic competitions held in China and Liaoning Province. The school won many titles, such as the 10th "Challenge Cup" National Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition for College Students, the Outstanding Organization Award of Colleges and Universities, the National Advanced Unit of College Students' Summer Social Practice, and the Outstanding Youth Volunteer Service Collective of Liaoning Province. The "Community Culture Festival for College Students" won the first prize of excellent campus cultural activities in Liaoning Province, and the "Good Habit Project for College Students" won the Class A excellent ideological and political education activities in Liaoning Province. Scientific Outlook on Development, the student propaganda group of our school, was awarded the titles of "The Second National Excellent College Student Association" and "The Third National Top Ten Student Model Association" by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education and the National Federation of Students. It is the only student association in the history of Liaoning universities to receive this honor. As one of the three student representatives, Zan Yingying, the student representative of our school, made a keynote speech on behalf of other universities except Beijing and Shanghai, and was cordially received by state leaders at the national symposium on the spirit of studying the Party's 17th National Congress. College students' social practice activities, mainly in the form of attachment exercise, have been commended by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the State Education Commission and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. The Youth League Committee was awarded the honorary title of "National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee" by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.
Hurricane rain, spring flowers and autumn fruits. Liaoning University of Technology has been awarded the honorary titles of "Civilized Unit", "Safe and Civilized Campus" and "Excellent Study Style School" by Liaoning Provincial Government and Provincial Education Department for many times. Since its establishment more than half a century ago, it has delivered more than 654.38+million talents for the country. The vast number of graduates spread all over the front of national economic construction, and a large number of outstanding management talents and famous experts and scholars emerged.
In the new century full of hopes and challenges, Liaoning University of Technology is holding high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics with high morale, heroic feelings and innovative spirit, and under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, striving to build the school into a high-level characteristic university with distinctive characteristics of dominant disciplines, coordinated development of multiple disciplines, high teaching and research level, strong comprehensive strength, great social contribution and important international influence. In order to implement the strategy of breaking through the northwest of Liaoning, revitalize the old industrial base in Liaoning and build a well-off society in an all-round way.