I.     Training Objectives and Specifications

The major aims to cultivate students into high-quality, versatile talents with a sense of social responsibility, a global vision, a solid mastery of control theory coupled with skills in control engineering technique, and the knowledge of other related disciplines. With creative minds, team-work spirits and comprehensive high qualities, the students are expected to be capable of scientific research, teaching, technology development and management in such control-related fields as control science and engineering, information processing, computer applications, electrical engineering.

With the development of information technology, the automation area has achieved a comprehensive development. The discipline of control, as the core academic subject in Automation major, has progressed from the control science purely for industrial enterprises into the informational one, which, with a managerial combination, is digitalized, webified, integrated and intelligent. With its theoretical essentials as in control theory, system theory and information theory, the Automation major specializes in the cultivation of students who can grasp the core problems in systems, control, optimization and information processing from their engineering practices, and can provide a preliminary analysis of those complex problems so as to figure out the solutions. Students are also expected to possess at the entry level the all-round engineering technical competences in aspects of control system design, testing and implementation.

The major is intended for research talents, which can be specified into two types of professionals: one with continuous learning and researching abilities, and thus potential for further education; and the other type with solid theoretical foundation and practical ability, and thus capability of researching and developing in such technical fields as information processing and control.

 

II.   The Curriculum System

1. General Education Courses

General education curriculum consists of three parts, namely, public courses, general education core courses and general education practices. A total of 48 credits are required: 25 credits in public courses including ideological and political courses, English and PE; 21 credits in general education core courses including 8 credits in humanities, 4 credits in social sciences, and 9 credits in natural sciences and engineering technology; 2 credits in general education practices.

2. Professional Education Courses

Professional education curriculum is composed of platform-based courses, professional compulsory courses and professional elective courses, with a total of 106 credits. The credits of Programming Methodology course can meanwhile be counted as credits for natural sciences and engineering technology module in general education. During the study of professional courses (i.e. from the 5th to 7th semester), students are required to attend at least one professional course taught in English.

3. Practical Education Courses

Practical education courses require a total of 43 credits, including 7 credits for compulsory laboratory courses, 12 credits for compulsory and elective courses in internship and practice, 3 credits for military training, 4 credits for specialized elective courses for comprehensive training and 17 credits for graduation project. The credits of Engineering Practice and Technological InnovationⅠcourse can meanwhile be counted as credits for natural sciences and engineering technology module in general education.

4. Individualized Education Courses

Individualized education courses are electives at students’ choice and 20 credits are to be finished during their study. All credits count in this curriculum but those for the above three modules as in the major’s training program (i.e. modules of general education, professional education and practical education). To illustrate, credits for Individualized Education Courses include credits of minor courses and elective courses, excess credits of restricted electives, credits of professional electives with no credit requirements provided by some other majors, credits of College Basic English (3) and (4), and credits from the recognized extracurricular competitions and practical innovation projects such as PRP.

 

III. Academic System, Graduation Requirements and Degree

The flexible academic system is applied in Automation and lasts 4 to 6 years. Early graduation is allowed for students who have obtained 217 credits as required. Extended schooling within six years is also permissible. According to “Regulations Concerning Academic Degrees in the People’s Republic of China”, BE Degree will be granted to students who have completed the curricula and teaching practice as required in the major training program and obtained the required credits with qualified moral, intellectual and physical examination results.

 

IV.   The Curriculum List

Common Core Required By University

 

Language：C: Teach in Chinese;  E: Teach in English; B: Bilingual

Common Technology Core

 

Major Specialty

Major Core:

 

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