Shandong
Jianzhu University is an engineering-based multidisciplinary university
specialized in civil construction, also covering engineering, science,
management, literature, arts, law and agriculture. The new campus is
located in emerging east Jinan, the City of Spring with a time-honored
cultural history and beautiful natural landscape, in Shandong province,
adjacent to the East Jingshi Road in the south, the Century Avenue in
the north, the Jinan Administration Approval Service Center and Jinan
Olympic Sports Center, boasting its superior geographical location and
convenient traffic. The
university has two campuses with advanced and complete facilities,
namely Heping Campus and New Campus. The latter was put into service in
2004. The two campuses cover a land area of more than 2500 mu, with a
building area of over 700,000 m2. The library has a collection of
2,985,000 books, including over 1,865,000 printed books (20,000 in
foreign languages) and 1,120,000 e-books (more than 20,000 in foreign
languages). The university owns an area of 84,200 m2 for sports and
instruments and equipment of RMB 205 million worth for teaching and
research. It owns 5531 computers and 18500 seats in multimedia
classrooms and language labs. Its superior location, natural and
aesthetical layout, magnificent buildings, beautiful environment and
eco-friendly, garden-style and digitalized campuses make the university
an ideal choice for students and teachers.
Level
In
active efforts to meet the needs of regional economic and social
development, the university duly optimizes the mix of disciplines to
schools and divisions including School of Civil Engineering, School of
Management Engineering, School of Thermal Engineering, School of
Municipal and Environmental Engineering, School of Arts, School of
Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering, School of Information and Electrical Engineering, School of
Business, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of
Computer Science and Technology, Science School, School of Law and
Political Science, School of Foreign Languages, School of Transportation
Engineering, Continuing Education School, and Physical Education
Division. The university offers 51 majors for undergraduates, 14
first-level master's degree programs, 52 second-level master's degree
programs, six academic master's degree programs and 11 professional
master's degree programs. It has a current enrollment of 24,000
full-time students from 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous
regions.
Education and Teaching
The
university considers teaching quality as the lifeblood for it to
survive and develop. In implementing a quality-oriented strategy, the
university focuses on fostering creativity, ability of practice and
employment competiveness of students by renovating educational
philosophy, deepening teaching reform, standardizing teaching management
and establishing the core role of teaching. The university concentrates
great efforts on cultivating graduates with excellent academic
performance, strong adaptability, high capability and superior
competency. Through great efforts in improving teaching, launch of a
variety of teaching quality programs and application for national and
provincial teaching programs, the university has attained remarkable
achievements, including four national specialty disciplines, two
national project practice education centers, one national experimental
teaching demonstration center, three national top-quality courses, one
national bilingual demonstration course, one national outstanding
teacher with six civil engineering sub-disciplines passed the national
professional appraisal.
Scientific Research
The
university also pays much attention to discipline development,
considering it a key to build the university's core competitiveness. By
highlighting the advantage and feature of civil engineering and boosting
the cross-development of conventional and emerging disciplines, the
university continuously improves the mix of disciplines and the level of
research and development and has developed a number of advantageous
fields, such as civil engineering, urban planning and building design,
intelligent buildings and building energy conservation. It has one key
laboratory jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Shandong
Province, three disciplines with professorship of Taishan Scholar, three
provincial key laboratories, seven provincial engineering and
technological research centers, one provincial intangible cultural
heritage research base. In the review of key programs of Shandong
province for the 12th Five-Year Plan, the university was recognized to
have ten provincial key disciplines, four key laboratories in
universities of Shandong and one provincial university humanity and
social science research base, among which two were rated specialty
disciplines and one laboratory recognized as a provincial key laboratory
to receive stronger support. These signify breakthroughs in the
development of disciplinary platform.