The School of Electrical Engineering originated from the electrical engineering course offered in the early days of its establishment in 1949. In 1958, the Department of Electrical Engineering was established with a major in Motor Manufacturing. In 1961, the Department of Electrical Machinery and Electrical Appliances was established. In 1972, the Department of Electrical Engineering was established with majors in Electrical Machinery, Electrical Appliances, and Industrial Electrical Automation. In 1987 and 1999, it was renamed as the Department of Electrical Engineering and the School of Electrical Engineering, respectively.
Our school has a doctoral program in the first-class discipline in electrical engineering, a postdoctoral mobile station, a Provincial First-class Characteristic Key Discipline in Liaoning, and a National Key Discipline in Electric Motors and Electrical Appliances. We also have the authority to confer doctoral degrees in energy and power.
There are four departments in our school. They are Electrical Engineering and Automation, Automation, Biomedical Engineering, and New Energy Science and Engineering. We also have four corresponding undergraduate programs. There are currently over 3600 students, including undergraduates, master's students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral students.
Our school has a strong teaching and scientific research team and internationally renowned scholars with profound academic achievements. They are Professor Tang Renyuan, an academician of the CAE Member, the founder of China's rare earth permanent magnet motor, and Professor Zhu Yinghao, a distinguished expert in the field of power transmission and transformation in China, an academician of the CAE Member; There are also a group of young and middle-aged academic leaders oversea studying experiences.
Our school currently has 119 professional teachers. They include 1 academician, 53 professors, 59 doctoral supervisors, and 44 associate professors. 32 high-level talents, including candidates for the National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project, outstanding talents of the Ministry of Education in the new century, leaders of the Ministry of Education’s innovation team, recipients of special government allowances from the State Council, young and middle-aged discipline leaders in Liaoning Province, outstanding talents in universities in Liaoning Province, specially appointed professors in Liaoning Province, and 100 level talents of the Liaoning Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project.
Our school ranked B+ in the fifth round of national subject level assessment. We 20 disciplinary bases, including the National Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Motor Engineering Technology Research Center, National Technology Transfer Demonstration Institution, the Key Laboratory of Special Motors and High Voltage Electrical Appliances of the Ministry of Education, the Key Laboratory of High Voltage and Strong Current and New Motors of Liaoning Province, the Key Laboratory of Wind Power Generation Technology of Liaoning Province, the Key Laboratory of Safe Operation and Monitoring of Power Grid of Liaoning Province, the Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Energy Equipment and Application of Liaoning Province, and the Major Science and Technology Platform for Modern Electrical Equipment Theory and Common Technology of Liaoning Province.
The undergraduate program in Electrical Engineering and Automation is a National First-class Characteristic Undergraduate Program Construction Site, a pilot major of the Ministry of Education and Liaoning Province Excellent Plan, an Undergraduate Advantage Characteristic Undergraduate Program in Liaoning Province, and a demonstration undergraduate major in Liaoning Province. The program is a pilot major for the reform of undergraduate engineering talent training mode in Liaoning Province. It has the Liaoning Province Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Electrical Engineering and Automation, the Liaoning Province Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Electrical and Electronics, the Liaoning Province Wind Power Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center, and the Liaoning Province Off campus Practice Education Base for College Students. Our graduates have obtained international engineering education professional certification.
Our school has a strong academic atmosphere. In the past five years, we have hosted a total of 45 national level science and technology projects, including major national science and technology projects, the “863” plan, the science and technology support plan, and key projects of the Natural Science Foundation of China. We have won 17 national and provincial science and technology progress awards, been granted 127 invention patents, published 13 works, and published over 400 SCI and EI journal search papers.
We have established a comprehensive school enterprise cooperation platform. This platform covers scientific and technological cooperation, resource sharing, and talent cultivation with a group of large leading enterprises such as State Grid Corporation of China, China Datang Corporation, TBEA Co., Ltd., and Zhongshan Dayang Electric Machinery Co., Ltd. This has greatly promoted our talent cultivation, scientific research, and social service work. We also have made breakthroughs in international exchanges and cooperation, and long-term friendly cooperative relationships have been established with renowned universities and academic teams in countries such as Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Denmark. Teaching and research cooperation institutions have been jointly established to improve research and teaching conditions.
Over 60 years of development, our school has become an important base for cultivating high-level talents and conducting scientific research. We have laid a solid foundation to enter the advanced ranks of higher education in Electrical Engineering in China. Looking ahead to the future, our school will continue to make unremitting efforts to cultivate outstanding talents and construct first-class disciplines.
