The college of Computer and Information Engineering originated from the major of Appliance Commodity Operation and Maintenance in 1978, and established as the Department of Economic Information Management in 1998, was then renamed the Department of Computer Information Management in 2001 and the Department of Computer Science and Technology in 2005. With the upgrading of GZUC in 2015, the college developed to be the College of Computer and Information Engineering and began to enroll the first batch of undergraduate students majoring in E-commerce, and Internet of Things Engineering in 2016. Currently the college has five undergraduate majors: E-commerce, Internet of Things Engineering, Data Science and Big Data Technology, Network Engineering, and Computer Science and Technology. Among them, the E-commerce and the Internet of Things Engineering are provincial first-class construction majors, and the Internet of Things Engineering has been approved among the second batch of national new engineering research and practice projects.
At present, the college has 73 full-time teachers, 4 education administrators, 3 experimental technicians, and 9 full-time tutors. Among them, there are 31 full-time teachers with senior titles, 66 with master's degrees or above, 25 dual-skill teachers (teachers have company working experiences, or have industry certificates), 2 members of the provincial professional teaching Steering Committee, and 1 provincial “Prominent Teacher”. It currently has 1,964 students (data as of August 31, 2022).
Adhering to the talent training concept of “cultivating morality, fostering skills for career”, the college focuses on the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue, proactively adapts to the big data strategy and industrial development needs of Guizhou, and innovates the talent training model. With the construction of new engineering majors as the goal, the college deepens the reform of education and teaching, actively promotes the reform of teaching means, teaching methods and students’ academic evaluation methods, pays attention to teaching process management, attaches importance to students’ ability training, and actively promotes the integration of industry and education and collaborative education. The college has built some well-run experimental practice bases inside and outside the campus, including 10 on-campus laboratories, 22 off-campus practice teaching bases, one provincial first-class platform of Internet of Things engineering experiment center, Provincial Department of Education Internet of Things Engineering research center, and commerce big data engineering research center.
(Translator: Meng Rui; Editor: Liu Shanshan)
