Overview

The School of Electronic and Informationis one of the central departments of Zhongyuan University of Technology (ZUT, founded in 1955). Its former name was the Department of Electrical Engineering and renamed as the current name in 2004 with the development of ZUT. Many outstanding achievements have been made in teaching, scientific research, and subject construction during these years. The school has strong faculty and has formed a high-level academic team. Currently, there are around 100 staff members at present in the school, including 11 professors, 38 associate professors, and 40 teachers with doctoral degrees.

The School attaches great importance to teaching quality, focusing on undergraduate and graduate education. There are seven undergraduate-level majors in automation, electrical engineering and automation, electronic information engineering, communication engineering, measurement & control technology and instruments, aircraft control and information engineering, and unmanned aircraft system engineering. Among them, the major of automation is awarded as the characteristic national major. The major of electrical engineering and automation major belongs to a characteristic provincial major. The school has two provincial-level excellent basic teaching organizations.

The school pays much attention to the cultivation of students' practice ability and has established off-campus practice bases in large enterprises such as Xuji Group, China Hengtian Heavy Industry Group, Yutong Bus, and HanweiElectronic. The school has been taking a series of actions to improve students' engineering practice ability continuously. It has won 7 national first-place prizes, 20 second-place prizes, and more than 80 provincial prizes in the National Undergraduate Electronic Design Competition. In the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, the National College Student Challenge Cup competition, and the National College Student "Freescale" Smart Car Competition, the contestants from our school all achieved excellent results. Many outstanding students are admitted as postgraduates national key universities, and many others become technical backbones in the national electrical information and textile industries.