North China Electric Power University
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North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and is one of the key universities under the national “211 Project” and “985 Project Advantageous Discipline Innovation Platform”. In 2017, the university entered the ranks of national “double first-class” construction universities, focusing on the construction of energy and power science and engineering discipline cluster, and started a new journey of building a world-class discipline and high-level research university.
The university was founded in 1958 in Beijing, originally named Beijing Electric Power Institute. In 2003, the school was transferred to the Ministry of Education and is now managed by State Grid Corporation, China Southern Power Grid Corporation, China Huaneng Group Corporation, China Datang Group Corporation, China Huadian Group Corporation, National Energy Investment Group Corporation, State Power Investment Group Corporation, China Yangtze River Three Gorges Group Corporation, China Guangnuclear Group Corporation, China Power Construction Corporation, and China Power Construction Corporation. Ltd., China Power Construction Group Co., Ltd., China Energy Construction Group Co., Ltd., Guangdong Energy Group Co., Ltd. and other 12 large power groups and the China Electricity Council and the Ministry of Education. The school is located in Beijing and has a separate campus in Baoding, with integrated management in both places. The university has more than 3,000 faculty members, 24,000 full-time undergraduate students and 12,000 graduate students. The university covers an area of more than 1,600 mu, with a building area of more than 1 million square meters.
For more than 60 years, the university has been comprehensively implementing the Party’s education policy, carrying out the fundamental task of establishing moral education, and adhering to the Huadian spirit of “self-improvement, unity and progress, love for school and dedication, and pursuit of excellence”, cultivating a large number of energy and power talents with both moral and talent. The university has always focused on serving national strategies and industry needs, and has been active at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, overcoming many technical problems in the development of China’s electric power industry and playing an indispensable and important role in promoting the progress of electric power science and technology. After entering the new century, the university has carried out the policy of “establishing disciplines, strengthening talents, promoting scientific research and developing characteristics”, grasped the opportunities and achieved rapid development by leaps and bounds.
The university has 67 undergraduate majors, including College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Energy Power and Mechanical Engineering, College of Control and Computer Engineering, College of Economics and Management, College of New Energy, College of Nuclear Science and Engineering, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, College of Mathematics and Science, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Foreign Languages, College of Marxism, College of Energy Internet, College of Artificial Intelligence, etc. undergraduate majors. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, two disciplines, electrical engineering and power engineering and engineering thermophysics, were ranked A and A- respectively; “Engineering”, “Computer Science”, “Environment/Ecology”, “Material Science” 6 disciplines of “Chemistry” and “Social Sciences” are ranked in the top 1% of the global ESI, among which “Engineering” is ranked in the top 70 and top 1 per 1000. The university has 6 post-doctoral research stations, 7 first-level authorization points for doctoral degrees, 23 first-level authorization points for master’s degrees, and 13 professional degree authorization categories, including master of energy and power, master of electronic information, master of engineering management and master of business administration, forming a complete education system of cultivating bachelor, master and doctoral degrees.
The university has an aggressive, well-qualified and reasonably structured high-level faculty team, with 1991 full-time teachers, including 420 with senior positions and 722 with associate positions. There are 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 10 double-appointed academicians and more than 100 other high-level talents of various kinds, and several high-level research teams.
The university takes talent cultivation as the central work, and has formed the talent cultivation characteristics of “thick foundation, emphasis on practice, strong ability and innovation”, and has become the first batch of universities implementing the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” of the Ministry of Education, and initiated the establishment of The university has become one of the first colleges and universities implementing the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” of the Ministry of Education, and initiated the establishment of the “School-Enterprise Alliance for Cultivating Excellent Engineers in Electric Power Industry”. The university has 15 national first-class majors, 11 national specialties, 4 national strategic emerging industry-related majors, 12 national first-class courses, 2 national teaching teams, 1 national teaching master, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national engineering practice education centers, 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, and 1 national talent training mode innovation Experimental Zone.
The university actively participates in the construction of national innovation system and has made remarkable achievements in important fields such as new energy, ultra-high voltage, smart grid, clean coal power, nuclear power, etc. It has built 3 national science and technology innovation platforms, 1 national international science and technology cooperation base, 6 discipline innovation and intelligence introduction bases for higher education institutions, and 29 provincial and ministerial science and technology platforms and research bases. “Since the 10th Five-Year Plan, the university has undertaken more than 3,700 vertical projects such as National Key Research and Development Program, National Science and Technology Major Project, 973, 863, National Science and Technology Support Program and National Natural Science Foundation of China. Since the “Tenth Five-Year Plan”, we have undertaken more than 3,700 vertical projects and won more than 400 national and provincial science and technology progress awards. The scientific research funding has been increasing rapidly, and the ranking of scientific and technological papers in the three major international search rankings among the universities directly under the Ministry of Education is in the forefront.
Relying on the platform of University Council, the university has deepened the cooperation between industry, academia and research, reached strategic cooperation with more than 100 large energy and power enterprises at home and abroad, and established “Smart Grid Collaborative Innovation Center” and “Smart Power Generation Collaborative Innovation Center”. The university has built a number of key university-enterprise cooperation platforms such as “Energy Internet Academy”, jointly undertaken major R&D projects, and accelerated the development and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements; the university has built a platform for cooperation between government, industry, academia and research in multiple directions, signed strategic cooperation agreements with more than 20 local governments, deepened exchanges and cooperation around strategic emerging industries, and made achievements in promoting regional scientific and technological The university actively promotes inter-university cooperation and participates in the formation of the Beijing High Tech University Consortium as the main initiator, realizing the sharing and complementation of advantageous resources between universities and promoting inter-university collaborative innovation.
The university has built a network of world-class university partners and a network of universities along the “Belt and Road” to carry out student exchanges, scientific research cooperation and other cooperation projects, set up Sino-foreign cooperation programs, and improve the scale and quality of foreign students coming to China. The university actively implements the national “Belt and Road” initiative, takes the initiative to undertake national diplomatic tasks, and undertakes a number of national foreign aid training programs; signs the “Belt and Road” Energy College Partnership Memorandum with 15 overseas universities, including the Moscow Power Institute in Russia. We have also signed a memorandum of understanding with 15 overseas universities, including the Moscow Institute of Dynamics in Russia, on “One Belt, One Road” energy academy partnership.
