Automation of the profession is based on automatic control theory as the main theoretical basis, electronic technology, computer information technology, sensors and detection technology as the main technical means to control a variety of automation devices and systems.
The specialty has two development directions, the first is the direction of industrial process control, the second is the direction of embedded systems. It is a combination of computer hardware and software, machinery and electronics, components and systems, operation and manufacturing, control science, computer technology, electronics, mechanical engineering as one of the comprehensive disciplines. It has a "control (system) management (science) combination, strong (electricity) weak (electricity), soft (pieces) hard (pieces) both" distinctive features, is a science, engineering, literature, management of multi-disciplinary cross-broadening of the broad-bore engineering specialties.
Employment Prospects:
Since the second half of the 20th century, the fourth wave of technological revolution, characterized by information technology, has hit the world, and has given a great impetus to the development of the economy of all countries. Whether we can seize this rare opportunity for development will determine whether the countries of the world can occupy a favorable position in the future international competition. China in the reform and opening up this great situation, to take a positive response to the posture, to meet the challenge. The party and state leaders attach great importance to automation technology on the national economy of the great role, developed corresponding measures to increase investment in automation education, have set up laboratories in colleges and universities to improve the teaching environment in order to cultivate more outstanding professionals.
A large number of outstanding experts and scholars have emerged in the field of automation. Professor Wu Qidi, who has served as president of Tongji University, professor, doctoral supervisor, director of the Chinese Society of Automation, senior member of the IEEE, has long been engaged in modern control theory and application, and has published one monograph, four translations, and more than 100 academic papers. He has presided over and completed more than 20 scientific research projects, and has been awarded the second prize of the National Defense Science and Industry Commission's major technological improvement, the first prize of the Ministry of Electronics Industry's scientific and technological achievements, and the third prize of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award and many other awards. The Department of Automatic Control and the Institute of Automation of Southeast University in Nanjing not only has two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Qian Zhonghan and Prof. Feng Chunbo, but also has a group of young and middle-aged technical backbones with solid theoretical foundation, rich practical experience, and mastery of advanced computer technology.
The graduates of this program have a wide range of employment channels, because automation technology has a wide range of applications, its employment field is also diverse. Because of this, some students in the choice of career is prone to produce "the emperor's daughter does not worry about marriage" mentality, that their own automation profession is in demand, the social demand for large, the work unit can be picked with their own. Although the implementation of student employment is a "two-way" selection policy, you choose the employer, but the employer also choose you. So do not show a kind of "the emperor's daughter does not worry about marriage" posture, feel very great, which will only cause the employer's resentment and even ultimately do not hire you. Modesty, practicality, stability is the first choice of the graduates of the program when choosing a career. According to the employment of graduates in recent years, their jobs are very satisfactory and their income situation is quite optimistic.
The industry associated with the employment field of the profession with the revitalization of the market economy and the deepening of the degree of opening to the outside world, has also gained rapid development. Civil aviation, railroads, finance, communication systems, taxation, customs and other sectors of the degree of automation is increasingly high, research institutes, high-tech companies also take advantage of the strong talent, rapid development. In the future, with the application of automation technology in the field of expanding, the demand for this professional talents will continue to increase, automation graduates will also be widely used with the help of this technology in all areas of social life, economic development in all segments to find the ideal position to play their expertise.
Automation has always been the society's urgent need for talent. This includes electrical automation, railroads, chemicals, and many other fields.
Automation engineers - work on the maintenance and optimization of automation systems;
Automation designers - work on the design and development of automation systems;
Software engineers -handles the design and development of software related to automation systems.
Teaching and related research is also possible.