Harbin Engineering University

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Coordinates: 45°46′20″N, 126°40′30″E

Habin Engineering University
哈爾濱工程大學

Motto: 大工至善,大學至真 [1]("Great Engineer Changes the World, Great Lorer Changes the Knowledge")
Established: 1953
Type: Public
Principal: Liu Zhigang (刘志刚)
Staff: 2,600
Undergraduates: 25,000
Postgraduates: 7,000
Location: Harbin, China
Campus: Urban
Website: www.hrbeu.edu.cn

Harbin Engineering University (simplified Chinese: 哈尔滨工程大学; traditional Chinese: 哈爾濱工程大學) was founded in 1953, in Harbin, China. It used to host the PLA Military Engineering Institute, China's foremost institute in that field. Following the deterioration of China's relations with the USSR after the Sino-Soviet border conflict, it divided into six universities for security reasons. Harbin is now the key engineering university in China, encompassing engineering science and management as well as support programs on humanities and social sciences.

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[edit] History

HEU traces its origin to the Military Engineering Academy established in Harbin on September 1, 1953. In 1970 Harbin Shipbuilding Engineering Institute (HSEI) was formed. With approval from the State Education Commission, HSEI changed its name to Harbin Engineering University in 1994, and ocean and marine projects became its main field of research.

[edit] Current status

The University has 7 colleges and 10 departments. It has a student body of over 10,700, and a staff of 2,100, including 158 professors, 465 associate professors, 2 academicians of the China Academy of Engineering, 2 members of the Disciplinary Appraisal Group in the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, and more than 60 doctoral advisors.

HEU is one of the first universities authorized by the state to award doctoral and master's degrees. It has 3 research stations for postdoctoral fellows, 11 courses conferring doctor's degrees, 31 courses conferring master's degrees, 4 engineering fields conferring the master of engineering degree, conferring MBA degree.[vague] HEU has 1 the first-class courses conferring doctoral degrees, 1 national key discipline and 11 ministerial key disciplines.[vague]

The university has always laid stress on scientific research, achieving nearly 1,800 outstanding research results, among which 39 items have won national awards, and 446 items have won ministerial or provincial level awards.

The university has established cooperative relationships with more than 20 foreign universities or research institutions, including scholars and academic exchanges, and cooperative research development.

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