The celebrities who have come out of Nanjing University of Science and Technology include Ren Xinmin, Wang Zeshan, Pan Defu, Liu Yixin and Cui Xiangqun.
Ren Xinmin, an expert in aerospace technology and rocket engines, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, taught at the Harbin Institute of Military Engineering in 1952, and was deputy director of the Artillery Engineering Department (the predecessor of Nanjing University of Technology).
Wang Zeshan, an expert in energy-containing materials, was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999, and is currently a professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology.
Pan Defu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a famous expert in ocean remote sensing, graduated from Nanjing University of Technology in 1968.
Liu Yixin, an expert in weapon system and application engineering, the first general instructor of the whole army's primary command school, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Cui Xiangqun, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of Third World Academy of Sciences.
As of April 2019, the university covers an area of 3,118 acres, with a building area of 1,080,000 square meters; it has 20 colleges, and cooperates in founding two independent colleges; it has a collection of more than 2.5 million books and documents in Chinese and foreign languages; and there are more than 30,000 students of various types and 1,000 international students.
Expanded InformationFaculty:
As of April 2019, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) has more than 3,200 faculty members, more than 1,900 full-time faculty members, and more than 1,200 professors and associate professors, of whom 17 are academicians of the two academies, 3 foreign academicians, 18 Yangtze River scholars, and 21 experts of Ten Thousand People Plan.
Discipline Construction:
As of April 2019, the university has four disciplines, namely engineering, chemistry, materials science, and computer science, in the top 1% of the global rankings of ESI international subject areas. The university has 9 national key disciplines, 6 advantageous disciplines in Jiangsu Province, 9 key disciplines in Jiangsu Province, and 7 key disciplines in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
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