China University of Petroleum – Beijing (CUPB) was founded in 1959. It is one of the first Chinese universities that introduced and established the subject of Information Science and Engineering. After 6-decade development, the College of Information Science and Engineering has made a large number of essential contributions to Chinese high-end Information Science education.
To fit in the New-era disciplinary development, the university has founded the College of Information Science and Engineering (CISE) in November 2018, which is the new-step mark of the Information Subject in our university.
CISE consists of Automation Department, Computer Science Department, Electronic Information Engineering Department, Software Engineering Department, and Teaching and Experimental Center. There are two PhD-awarding branches in Automation and Computer Technology and Resource Information, three undergraduate programs in Automation, Computer Science and Technology, Electronic Information Engineering. It is worth emphasizing that Automation major is one of the National Characteristic Majors, and Computer Software Basic Teaching Team was awarded “Beijing Excellent Teaching Team”.
To ensure the correct political direction and stable development environment, CISE has founded college-level, department-level the Party and the League Labor Union Organization through the leading of University Party Committee and University Administration. There are about 1200 students currently enrolled in CISE family. Also, CISE has abundant high-level qualified faculty. Among 76 faculty, there are 67 full-time teachers, 12 doctoral supervisors, 8 professors and senior research scientists, 22 associate professors and associate research scientists. After facing with long-term national strategic demand and research on innovation in frontier areas, all subjects have formed their own fine traditions and established great teams, Process Control Theory and so on. For recent years, CISE has gained a series of high-quality science and technology achievements, and undertaken plenty of national focal research and development projects, National Natural Science Foundation and other projects. Also, it won many national and provincial science and technology awards.
With the concepts of opening education, resource sharing, win-win theory, CISE actively conducts cooperation with worldwide universities, research institutions, enterprises, and specialties. To accomplish the goal of building a world-class research university in petroleum and petrochemical field, the college has realized the development ideas of excellence, innovation, and entering mainstream, and development strategies of characterization, internationalization, and talent.
Nowadays, new generations of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and so on have become nation-special-supporting and prior-developing directions. CUPB has been constantly and thoroughly promoting “Double-First Class” construction, and has put forward higher requirements to CISE’s development. To do a better job in teaching, education and research, the college will follow the trend of internationalization, and integrate the strength of the whole college. Through all kinds of efforts and connections, CISE is working on forming the leading position and high-influencing unique research direction of petroleum information technologies.
First-class universities form in a long-term accumulation, through which they can be more remarkable. All faculty members and students of CISE will inherit good traditions and do research seriously to create a better future for information science.