The history of more than 200 years since then is also a history of automation in all fields of human society. Rolling forward the automobile wheels freed human feet, steel mills with hammer and anvil incomparable speed, for more and more close to the dome of the city to provide building materials, until the information age, people only rely on a palm-sized screen can touch the entire interconnected world. It can be said that throughout the course of modernization, automation has played a central role behind the scenes, and has fundamentally changed everyone's life.
Nowadays, people are no longer strangers to automation, and even the older generation who don't know English well know the meaning of the word "Auto" from the end of the last century when they started to come into contact with all kinds of imported electrical appliances. However, when faced with the automation profession, many people's impression is still stuck in the ? Basic industry? The automation program has been in the field of basic industry for a long time. Machinery Manufacturing Such a traditional field, that learning automation in the future can only be a senior blue-collar, holding a stainless steel lunch box to the factory work.
Perhaps it is due to automation of such a concept very early in people's minds, and therefore many people's impression of this profession is also fixed in more than a decade ago, did not keep up with the connotation of the development of this profession with the times. Although in our country, automation is not a very young concept, automation has not been like many emerging professions from birth on the swaddling clothes wrapped in full of colors of the times, but because of the strong cross-disciplinary nature of the field, allowing it to absorb fresh nutrients from almost any cutting-edge fields. Not only does this make the profession timeless, but it also makes it easy for those who choose it to ? the younger they live?
Ubiquitous Applications
Although automation has been around for a long time in many areas of production, it was not until the middle of the last century that the term automation was first coined in the automotive industry. This concept from the initial pure description of mechanical action instead of human operation, and later with the development of information technology, extended to the use of machines (including computers) to assist mental labor. In the process of the development of various industries, the connotation of automation is also constantly expanding, the scope of its involvement in a wide range of areas through the depth of the field, may have long exceeded the imagination of many people.
Just take the cell phone as an example, from the microcontroller, embedded these hardware R & D basis, to the production workshop assembly, testing, and then to the e-commerce sales platform 'unmanned warehouses, until the user to get a cell phone, the use of a small calculator to the big smart home and a series of APP function for work, life and create convenience, the whole life cycle of the phone all the time is not automated to occur contact.
Li Dazhi, director of the Department of Automation at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, said that many people may have the impression that automation is only related to the petrochemical, metallurgy and other process industries or machinery manufacturing. In fact, its application areas are very broad, in-depth life of all kinds of details. For example, can automatically help diabetics control blood sugar insulin pump, is one of the results of automation in the medical field.
Today, automation technology is widely used in industry, agriculture, military, scientific research, transportation, business, healthcare, services, and the home. From the traffic signal control of traffic lights that we have been familiar with since childhood to the driverless cars that are getting closer and closer to people's lives, from the intelligent control of the equipment of Tianzhou 1 in the vast universe to the constant temperature air conditioning that we enjoy when we are back at home, the fourth industrial revolution, represented by the industrialization of the Internet, industrial intelligence, and industrial integration, and the fourth revolution, which is dominated by artificial intelligence, clean energy, unmanned control technology, quantum information technology, virtual reality, and biotechnology, has also made automation a much more important part of our lives. Industrial Revolution, but also automation to a richer face in front of people.
Professional training by touch
When it comes to automation, people tend to think of it as a very precise and specialized profession. The person in charge of the automation program at Beijing Institute of Technology, Yu Naikong, introduced the automation program is a strong foundation, wide aperture, heavy practice of the engineering profession. The wide range of application areas, destined to have a strong cross-disciplinary characteristics of the profession.
From the point of view of the curriculum of some institutions, automation tends to give people a kind of engineering specialty? The big synthesis? The feeling. From the foundation of circuit analysis, digital electronics, analog electronics, automatic control theory, signals and systems, microcontroller and interface technology, microcomputer principles and applications, computer software such as professional foundation courses, to detection technology, digital signal processing, process control systems, motion control systems, computer control systems, intelligent control technology, embedded systems, computer networks, such as specialization courses, are with a lot of engineering majors. With the development of discipline construction in different institutions, or to cope with the industrial needs of the new era, it may also continue to introduce brand new courses, such as the automation program of NIT has opened courses targeting cutting-edge fields such as Introduction to Robotics Technology. Of course, the richness of the curriculum also means that the automation professional schedule is always full, want to learn this profession needs to pay a lot of effort.
Li Dazhi introduced, automation specialization has a multidisciplinary cross, rich connotation, wide extension and other characteristics. To the north chemical industry, for example, the school automation program contains three distinctive direction: control theory and application, process control engineering, electrical automation, respectively, to cope with the application of different industries, but also to meet the needs of more students with different academic planning and professional development.
If you want to learn automation, you have to work hard in math, physics and computers. Mathematics, physics is an important foundation for many engineering majors, and the emphasis on computer hardware and programming knowledge is a major feature of automation majors. Automation majors are often easy to work directly in the IT industry in general after graduation, while strong hardware expertise is their advantage over IT professionals who favor software. Solid basic knowledge, composite knowledge structure, so that automation talents in a variety of fields bypass, but also allows them to further study and career development in more space and options.
Longer and more precious development potential
Automation professional application fields, rich curriculum system, these have laid the automation talent employment advantage. Good to find a job, good to change jobs, is the feeling of many graduates of the program. However, some people believe that automation professional counterparts of the work of the relative starting salary is not high, the nature of the work is not high-end. The fact is that this is really the case?
In fact, the automation of professional counterparts and many engineering specialties with a strong? The first time I saw this was when I was in the middle of the night. The color is also? The older you get, the more money you get. For example, the process industry or manufacturing sector, the relevant work to have a certain technical experience, and after a certain period of growth, you can get a qualitative improvement in the position and salary. In other words, automation professionals tend to eat not? Youthful rice?
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However, in Beijing, the process industry and traditional manufacturing industry does not dominate the industrial landscape, automation graduates have a wealth of options in other industries. Li Dazhi said that in addition to the chemical industry, which maintains a close relationship with the North Chemical Industry, design institutes, automation companies, foreign companies, Internet IT companies, institutions, etc. are also very favored by graduates of the program.
Since the beginning of the development of the automation program of NIT, the training objectives and Beijing's industrial pattern and functional positioning closely together, targeting various types of high-tech industries represented by IT. Many graduates choose to enter the financial industry, engaged in information systems processing platform technical support and big data application analysis work. Civil aviation, railroads, electric power, foreign trade, industry and commerce, taxation and other fields are also easy to find suitable positions for automation talents. The employment rate of this specialty basically stays above 98%.
Automation is a technology-driven profession with a strong practical color. Whether in the college learning process or after entering the workplace, the professionals should consciously improve their practical ability, hone their skills, expand and update their knowledge structure, so as to grasp more valuable opportunities in the future. As one of the earliest batch to join the Ministry of Education? Engineer Excellence Program. one of the majors in the cultivation program, the North Chemical Automation and related enterprises to establish a cordial relationship, the full implementation of the outstanding engineers class school-enterprise joint training, to provide students with a wealth of practical opportunities.
At present, there are more than 400 colleges and universities in China offering automation majors, and the specialty characteristics of different colleges and universities vary. For example, Beijing Jiaotong University in urban rail transit automation, intelligent transportation systems, automatic detection and instrumentation and other fields in the domestic leading position, Tsinghua University, Northeastern University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University and other well-known universities automation professional also has a very strong strength.