About the university
Hunan University of Technology(HUT) is a multi-disciplinary university and one of the universities of the “training program of Doctors who serve nation’s special needs”. HUT embraces more than 50 years’ education experience. HUT was renamed from Zhuzhou Institute of Technology under the permission of the Ministry of Education in February, — and mergered with Zhuzhou Normal College and Hunan Metallurgical Professional Technology College in the same year.
With packaging education as its characteristic, HUT became the first member in China accepted by the International Association of Packaging Research Institutes
(IAPRI). HUT is the Unit Director of China Packaging Education Committee, and the only university in China which is the vice-president of China Packaging Federation and the training center of China Packaging Technology.
As one of the first group of universities, HUT passed the the undergraduate education evaluation of former State Education Commission. Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council permitted HUT to be the unit granting Master's Degrees in —. The Ministry of Education awarded HUT as one of the outstanding universities in the undergraduate teaching assessment in —. HUT was authorized to recruit international students since —, passed the evaluation of graduate students training process with distinction in —, was awared one of the top 50 universities in China for graduate employment in —, and was permitted to recruit candidates of the “training program of Doctors who serve nationa's special needs” in the end of —, and began to recruit doctors in —.
HUT is composed of 2 campuses, covering an area of —.7 acres. The new library covers an area of —.29 m2 , with a collection of more than 2.425 million books. HUT owns teaching and research facilities which cost more than 281 million yuan, — teaching computers, along with advanced computer network system, standard plastic track and field playground, gymnasium and all kinds of sports ground for physical education.
HUT owns 22 schools and one independent college. A scientific system, in which engineering is the leading discipline and engineering, science, management, liberal arts, economics, laws, education and arts develop coordinately, has been established. In HUT, there are 1 “training program of Doctors who serve nationa’s special needs”, 69 undergraduate programs; 1 national and 5 provincial teaching teams; 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 6 provincial experimental demonstration laboratory teaching center of basic subjects; 5 national characteristic specialties and 11 provincial, 5 provincial key majors, 6 national fine courses and 17 provincial ones. There are — full-time students, including — graduate students.
In HUT, there are — faculty members, including — teacheres. 242 of them are professors, 519 are associate professors, 273 are doctors (Ph.D.), 15 are Ph.D. tutors, and 360 are master’s tutors; 8 State Council Experts for special allowance, 1 Outstanding Expert of Hunan Province, 5 National Outstanding Teachers, 4 Provincial Outstanding Teachers, 3 Famous Teacher of Hunan Province, 71 Young Core Teacher of Hunan Province, 16 people in the “121 Talents Program ” of Hunan Province, 4 people in “100 People Propram” of Hunan Province, 9 people being academic leaders of Hunan Province; HUT employs 6 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
HUT owns 5 key disiplines of Hunan Province: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering. HUT established 10 key laboratories (“Application of Green Package and Bionanotechnology”, “Advanced Packaging Material and Technology” etc.) and 7 research centers (“Product Packaging Innovation Industrial Design Center”, “Pacaking Design Arts and Technology Research Center”, etc.) at the provincial and ministerial level. HUT set up “Building Wall Energy Saving New Materials” engineering and technological research center of Hunan Province with Hunan NO.5 Engineering CO., LTD and Zhuzhou Xiawan Building Materials CO., LTD. HUT also established “Cultivation and Innovation Base of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province” and “Cooperation by Production, Study and Research Demonstration Base of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province” with CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute Co., Ltd.