The school has established a Software College Construction Leading Group, headed by the president and attended by the vice presidents in charge of teaching, technology and industry, to make timely decisions on major issues in the construction and development of the college. Establish a college council composed of representatives from the school, National University Science and Technology Park, Xi'an National Software Industry Base, Xi'an National Integrated Circuit Industry Base and large IT companies to be responsible for the college's development planning, cooperative education, and guidance of industry-university-research cooperation practices. A capable, efficient and well-structured college leadership team has been established.
The college makes full use of educational resources at home and abroad, as well as inside and outside the school, selects teachers/teaching materials, creates an engineering education environment, and organizes professional teaching relatively independently. The Teaching Supervision Group is responsible for the inspection and evaluation of the college’s teaching quality.
Explore the corporate operation model and implement a full employment system for teachers and staff.
Implementing logistics socialization, NPU National University Science and Technology Park provides the college’s logistics facilities and organizes management.
The college mainly cultivates talents at three levels:
The college has established a relatively independent teaching and living area in the National University Science and Technology Park of NPU, covering an area of ??about 60 acres and built 36,000 square meters of teaching and experiment complex and student apartments.
The main learning and living facilities are:
Multimedia classrooms: The college uses more than 6,200 square meters of teaching complex building and has built 13 modern multimedia classrooms, covering an area of ??about 2,200 square meters. There is a student reading room, which can accommodate 100 people for reading and self-study.
College network: The college has a campus network with 1000M as the backbone and 100M to the desktop, covering the campus complex building and student apartment building, and is connected to the main campus network of NPU through 100M optical fiber, which can meet the needs of college teaching and students. Requirements for network access. The campus network is currently equipped with high-end routing switches and 70 switches with excellent performance.
Student Apartments: There are currently 4 student apartment buildings with an area of ??18,000 square meters and 600 dormitories, which can accommodate more than 2,000 students. The standard configuration of the student apartment is a 4-person room with an area of ??23 square meters. It has an indoor bathroom, air conditioning, telephone and Internet ports, and hot water. In order to improve the overall quality of students, 10 student activity rooms, each about 70 square meters, have been built in the student apartments. They are equipped with TV rooms, conference rooms, student club rooms, radio stations, etc. All equipment is purchased by the college. Track and field fields, basketball courts, table tennis, badminton courts, etc. have also been built on the new campus.
Living security: NPU Science and Technology Park provides a student restaurant of more than 3,000 square meters, which can accommodate nearly 3,000 students.
The hospital has a medical room in the college equipped with 3 medical staff.
Currently, there are nearly 1,600 undergraduates and master’s students in the school, and 280 graduates have been widely praised by employers.
Undergraduate Major: Software Engineering
Main courses and credit requirements: operating systems, discrete mathematics, data structures and algorithms, C programming, computer composition principles, software engineering, databases, etc. Professional courses: 80 credits.
Degree obtained: Bachelor of Engineering
Postgraduate majors: software engineering, network technology, database technology, and IC design. 40 credits.
Main courses in software engineering direction: Main courses in software engineering direction: software project management, object-oriented analysis and design, software quality management and process improvement, software quality testing, verification and confirmation, etc.
Main courses in the network technology direction: software project management, object-oriented analysis and design, networking technology and network protocols, network management and network security, advanced network programming, etc.
Main courses in the direction of database technology: software project management, object-oriented analysis and design, database design, database engineering, Oracle database, etc.
Main courses in IC design direction: software project management, object-oriented analysis and design, VLSI basics, EDA technology, etc.
Degree obtained: Master of Software Engineering
4. School-running characteristics
The software school’s school-running characteristics are mainly reflected in:
Three trainings Integration
Integration of knowledge cultivation and quality cultivation: while carrying out knowledge education, more attention is paid to quality education.
Integration of theoretical teaching and ability training: The School of Software focuses on the unified cultivation of knowledge and ability. In teaching, it focuses on assessing students' ability to apply what they have learned, and replaces dull blackboard teaching with vivid example teaching. Many course examinations include experimental content, and some course assessments are more directly based on experiments.
Integration of professional knowledge and language ability: the use of original English textbooks has reached more than 60% of all courses. Nine foreign teachers from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and other countries have successively offered 12 technical courses, and nearly 20 foreign experts have come to the institute to hold technical lectures on software and microelectronics.
Four Major Transformations
The transformation from academic qualifications to credits is in line with the international rules of higher education and more in line with the needs of student development.
From science to technology, we will transform elites and scientists into engineers and entrepreneurs.
The transformation from teaching to learning has changed the responsibilities of teachers into guides, managers and supervisors, and changed the traditional cramming education into heuristic and independent learning.
From local to international, courses and teaching materials are synchronized with the world, educational methods and models are in line with the world, and international talents are cultivated.
In addition, the teaching reform of the School of Software is also reflected in:
All courses offered adopt modern teaching methods and all electronic teaching plans have been developed.
Explore new student management models, explore and practice methods and effective ways of student self-management. In terms of student thinking, learning methods, laboratory management, courseware production, etc., students are involved and encouraged to self-manage. After four academic years of practice, good results have been achieved.
Address: No. 34, Fenghui South Road, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Postal Code: 710065
School of Software and Microelectronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University