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Revision as of 07:25, 28 October 2007 by SchmuckyTheCat (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)North China Electric Power University (华北电力大学) is a university in Beijing, China under the national Ministry of Education that specializes in polytechnic disciplines. It was founded as the Beijing Institute of Electric Power in 1958 and later renamed the North China Institute of Electric Power when its location was moved to Baoding in 1970. When the school merged with the Beijing Power Engineering and Electronics Institute in 1995, it was given its present name. In 2006, its location was move back to Beijing.
A close neighbor of Badaling highway, adjoining Olympic Green on the east and Zhongguancun high technology zone and Shangdi Information Industry base on the west, North China Electric Power University is located in Deshengmenwaizhuxinzhuang, Beijing. It is found in beautiful surroundings and fresh air.
As one of the key universities in China with a history of more than 40 years, this university has been fostering talents in the areas of engineering technology, management, economics and the social sciences. There are more than 8500 students with over 600 graduate students and doctor students.
It has the following departments: the Department of Electric Power Engineering, the Department of Thermal Power Engineering, the Department of Information Engineering, the Department of Automation, the Department of Computer Science and Technology, the School of Business Administration, the Department of Economics and Trade, the Department of Finance and Accounting, the Department of Law and Politics and the Department of Foreign Languages. There is one center for post-doctoral studies . The university offers one post-doctoral project program, 7 doctoral programs, 17 master’s degree programs and 24 bachelor’s degree programs. It has been authorized to admit overseas students. Covering a floor space of 11 thousand square meters, the library has a collection of over a one million volumes.
There are five key ministerial subjects, namely power system and its automation, power plant thermal power engineering, theoretical electric engineering, industrial automation and technological economics. Meanwhile there are three key ministerial laboratories called Power System Intelligence Protection and Control, Industrial Process Simulation and Control, State Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis in Electric Device.
Most of the teachers, half of whom are professors and associate professors, have got degrees of post-doctor, doctor and master respectively. One of the first members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Yang Qixun is the founder of the field of power system micro-computer protection and automation in China. Professor Yang Yihan and Song Zhiping are prominent supervisors for doctoral candidates in the field of electric power. The university has set up cooperative relations with universities and institutes in more than 20 countries and regions such as Britain, America, France, Japanese and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
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