Chemical Engineering and Technology Program
1.Program (Direction) Name: Chemical Engineering and Technology
2.Academic Duration: Four years
3.Degree: Bachelor of Engineering
4.Program Introduction:
The Chemical Engineering and Technology program at Wuhan Institute of Technology was first established in the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1972. Over the past nearly 50 years, focusing on the training objectives and adhering to moral education and connotative development, it has cultivated more than 12,000 graduates. Its supporting discipline, Chemical Engineering and Technology, is a first-level doctoral program with a postdoctoral research station. It has been selected as one of the first batch of "National First-Class Undergraduate Programs", and is a National Characteristic Major and Provincial Brand Major. It has passed the Engineering Education Accreditation three times consecutively, and is a project of the Ministry of Education's Excellent Engineer Training Program, a Provincial Top-notch Innovative Talent Training Pilot Program, a Hubei Provincial Strategic Emerging (Pillar) Industry Talent Training Program, one of the first batch of "New Engineering" Research and Practice Projects of the Ministry of Education, and a key construction major of "Domestic First-Class Disciplines". The program currently has a National Teaching Team for "Chemical Reaction Engineering", a National Model Party Branch, National Excellent Teachers, National Petroleum and Chemical Education Teachers, a Hubei Famous Teacher Studio, Hubei Provincial Teaching Teams and Excellent Grassroots Teaching Organizations. It also has National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers such as the "Large Chemical Industry Engineering Practice Teaching Center" and the "Environmental and Chemical Clean Production Experimental Teaching Center". It has been approved for National First-Class Courses such as "Chemical Reaction Engineering" and Provincial Excellent Quality Resource Sharing Courses such as "Principles of Chemical Engineering".
Training Objectives:
Adhering to moral education, based in Hubei, facing Central South China, radiating the whole country, and serving regional economic construction and the development of the large chemical industry, the program aims to cultivate high-quality engineering and technical talents with a high sense of social responsibility, good professional ethics, good humanistic and scientific literacy, and healthy physical and mental quality. Graduates will have a solid foundation of basic knowledge, theories and skills in chemical engineering and related disciplines, as well as a sense of innovation and entrepreneurship and strong practical ability. They will develop in an all-round way morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically and laboriously, and be able to engage in production operation and technical management, engineering design, technological development and scientific research in chemical engineering, petrochemical engineering, fine chemical engineering, medicine, environmental protection, materials and other related fields, becoming builders and successors of socialism.
Graduates of this program should have the following knowledge, abilities and qualities:
Goal 1 (Knowledge): Possess a solid foundation in natural sciences and engineering fundamentals, be able to apply the basic principles of mathematics, natural sciences and chemical engineering to identify, express and analyze complex engineering problems through literature research, and obtain effective conclusions.
Goal 2 (Abilities): Have good self-learning ability, literature retrieval ability, and certain application abilities in foreign languages, computers and information technology. Be familiar with the national policies, regulations and rules on chemical production, design, safety, research and development, environmental protection, etc. Possess preliminary abilities in the research and development of chemical products, processes, equipment and technologies, and be able to comprehensively use the mastered knowledge to analyze and solve complex engineering problems in chemical processes.
Goal 3 (Professional Literacy): Be able to use economic, safety regulations, laws, ethics and cultural knowledge in chemical engineering and related industries to evaluate the results of engineering activities, social and environmental impacts, economic efficiency and sustainability of engineering schemes in the chemical field, and conduct basic communication and exchanges on professional issues in a cross-cultural context.
Goal 4 (Humanistic Literacy): Establish and practice core socialist values, have a family and country feeling, solid humanistic literacy, a strong sense of social responsibility and engineering professional ethics; possess good communication and collaboration abilities, an international perspective and good physical and mental quality; have an innovative consciousness, a concept of sustainable development and lifelong learning ability, becoming modern chemical engineers who develop in an all-round way morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically and laboriously.
Professional Features and Advantages:
The program has a high-level faculty represented by National Distinguished Experts and candidates for the National Ten-Thousand Talents Program. It has a National Teaching Team for "Chemical Reaction Engineering", and invites industry experts from PetroChina, Sinopec, Hubei Yihua Group Co., Ltd., China Wuhuan Engineering Co., Ltd. and other enterprises as off-campus tutors to jointly guide students' practical teaching. The program has distinct characteristics in the fields of new reactors and process intensification technology, resource chemical engineering and technology, new catalysts and petrochemical clean production technology, fine chemicals and green chemical processes. It has established the National Engineering and Technology Research Center for Phosphorus Resources Development and Utilization, the Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Process of the Ministry of Education, two Hubei Provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers for "Development and Utilization of Low-Grade Phosphorite Resources" and "Development and Process Intensification of Downstream Products of Ethylene Engineering", and has co-built the Wuhan Chemical New Materials Industrial Technology Research Institute with Wuhan Municipal Government. It undertakes projects such as the "973 Program", "863 Program", National Science and Technology Support Program, the Ministry of Education's "Yangtze River Scholars and Innovative Team Development Program", and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, forming an innovation system integrating basic research, technological development, achievement transformation and industrialization. In recent years, it has achieved representative results including the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize of Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize of Hubei Provincial Technological Invention Award, Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award, and First Prize of Hubei Provincial Teaching Achievement Award. The program has two major features: first, prominent engineering characteristics, intelligently integrating chemical reactions, chemical unit operations, chemical processes and equipment, process system simulation and optimization, enabling students to have design, optimization and management capabilities; second, solid professional foundation and wide coverage, so that graduates have a solid professional foundation, a wide range of subject knowledge coverage, strong ability to solve complex engineering problems, and can engage in scientific research and product development in chemical engineering and related fields.
5.Core Courses:
Physical Chemistry, Principles of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Thermodynamics, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Chemical Separation Engineering, Chemical Safety and Environmental Protection, Chemical Technology, Chemical Design, Chemical Technology Economy, Specialized Experimental Courses in Chemical Engineering.
6.Faculty Strength:
The program currently has 56 full-time teachers, among whom 69.6% have senior professional titles, 91.7% have doctoral degrees, more than 90% have enterprise or engineering practice experience, 35.7% have more than one year of overseas experience, and 100% of professors teach undergraduate courses. The program has a National Teaching Team for "Chemical Reaction Engineering", a Hubei Famous Teacher Studio, Hubei Provincial Excellent Teaching Teams and Excellent Grassroots Teaching Organizations, and National Excellent Teaching Teams and Teaching Teachers in Petroleum and Chemical Education. Over the years, adhering to moral education, the program has formed a faculty with advanced teaching concepts, clear teaching goals, reasonable structure and high teaching quality, with senior professors as professional leaders, young teachers as backbones, curriculum construction as the foundation, quality control as the guarantee, and industry-university-research as the platform.
7.Student Awards:
The School (or Faculty) actively encourages and organizes students to participate in social practice and technological innovation activities. Based on the university's Undergraduate Practice and Innovation Center, chemical engineering students actively participate in national and provincial discipline competitions such as the National Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Design Competition, "Challenge Cup" National Undergraduate Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition, "Creation Youth" National Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Competition, National Undergraduate Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Social Practice and Technology Competition, "Internet +" National Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, National Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Experiment Competition, "Internet + Chemical Reaction Engineering" Course Model Design Competition, and Hubei Provincial Undergraduate Chemistry (Chemical Engineering) Academic Innovation Achievement Report Meeting, achieving remarkable results. In the past five years, it has won more than 50 awards in various discipline competitions, including more than 10 national first prizes and Huazhong Division special prizes.
8.Employment Directions:
Most graduates of this program serve in enterprises and institutions in chemical engineering and related fields, including PetroChina and Sinopec enterprises, fine chemical production enterprises, engineering design units, chemical inspection and testing units, chemical production administrative departments, chemical and chemical management enterprises, chemical education units, chemical research and development units, etc., engaging in scientific research, engineering design, new process development, production management, quality control, chemical marketing and management, etc.
Graduates of this program mainly serve in Hubei Province, as well as economically developed regions such as Central South China, the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta. About 5 years after graduation and employment, students can better adapt to the job requirements of different natures, grow into chemical engineers and managers with high professional level and strong innovation ability, and become the main backbone of employers. Taking Hubei's chemical and pharmaceutical industry as an example, among more than 80 large and medium-sized chemical and pharmaceutical units with an output value of over 100 million yuan, nearly 70% of the main leaders of the enterprises are graduates of our university's Chemical Engineering and Technology and related majors. The social demand for this program is good. Some students are directly employed, and some choose to further their studies in well-known domestic universities, pursuing master's/doctoral degrees in related disciplines or studying abroad in the United States, Australia, Japan, Europe and other places. In the past five years, the employment rate of graduates of this program has been over 96%, and the postgraduate entrance examination rate has been stable at around 40%. After four years of study and training, students of this program have mastered strong professional knowledge, have strong competitiveness in the chemical industry, and are highly recognized by the society. The average proportion of graduates engaged in work directly related to this program (professional counterpart rate) is 80%, and the average proportion of graduates engaged in work related to this program and its related fields (professional relevance rate) is 90%.
