A Brief Introduction
Shandong Water Conservancy Vocational College is a provincial public full-time college with water conservancy and engineering as its advantage. It has a 60-year history of vocational education. The college always adheres to “people-oriented and water-based” management philosophy, taking as its motto the old saying of “Water-like great virtue with a broad open mind like the sea”. The school aims to serve the society and polish its brand with water conservancy as its characteristics, engineering its advantages. It has earned the following titles as “ A National high-quality Water Conservancy Higher Vocational College”, “A National Modern Apprenticeship Experiment Site”, “One of the First Batch of National Water Conservancy Higher Vocational Model Colleges”, “Shandong High-quality Higher Vocational College”, “One of the First Batch of Skilled Talents Cultivation in Shandong Province”, “Excellent College for Employment in Shandong Province”, “ An Outstanding College for Moral Education in Shandong Province” The college won its fame as “The National Water Industry Skills Talent Cultivation Outstanding Contribution Award”, “National Vocational College Charm Campus”, “National Water Conservancy Staff Education Advanced Collective”, “Shandong Province University Sports Excellent Unit”, “Shandong Province School-enterprise Cooperation Integrated School Model School”, “Shandong Province Education Informatization Experiment Base” and other honorary titles.
Hardware and Facilities
The college covers an area of 262 acres; the total construction area of the school building is 537,000 square meters; the total value of teaching equipment is 138 million yuan, and the library has more than 1.02 million books. The college has 110 campus training workshops such as hydraulic training ground, engineering construction training center, mechanical processing center, logistics warehousing and distribution center, and 13 factories which is in the college, integrating student training and vocational skills appraisal. Besides, the college has cooperated with enterprises to build more than 300 fully functional off-campus training bases. Among them, the construction engineering technology training base is a vocational education training base construction project supported by the central government, and the hydraulic training field is a national water conservancy key professional internship training base.
Faculty team
The college pays attention to the organization of faculty, actively cooperates with the industry enterprises, introduces and trains professional leaders and backbone teachers who have exerted great influence among industries in the country, and builds high-level talents composed of enterprise experts, technical backbones and skilled craftsmen. The expert resource pool has formed a “double-skilled” faculty with reasonable structure, excellent business, noble morality, innovation and vitality. The college has 613 full-time teachers, including 35% with associate professor and senior professional and technical positions, and 55.15% of Master`s Degree and above. The proportion of “double-skilled” faculty accounts for 73.74%. Our teachers won 2 second prizes and 2 third prizes in the teacher skill competitions such as the National Informatization Teaching Contest. In the teacher skill competitions such as the Shandong Informatization Teaching Contest, some of them won 6 first prizes, 4 second prizes and 5 third prizes. Professor Pashna, a Russian foreign teacher, was awarded the first “Rizhao Friendship Award” for her outstanding work performance and was awarded the honorary citizen of Rizhao City in December 2015.
Major Construction Advantages
The school has highlighted the characteristics of water conservancy and created advantageous majors. In accordance with the development guide of “Develop Majors by taking advantage of industry and, in turn, promote the industry with the help of well-developed majors”, the college gives full play to the leading role of the school council. Under the guidance of the professional construction committee, according to the requirements of the national and Shandong development strategies for talent training, the college actively adjusts the service orientation, optimizes the professional structure, actively adapts to the needs of water conservancy industry and local economic construction, and cooperates with industry enterprises to build water conservancy projects and management, modern transportation engineering technology, modernization construction and management of the construction industry, intelligent equipment manufacturing, information technology and other eight professional groups. And the professional system is more perfect, the quality of professional connotation is obviously improved, and the full coverage of the professional water conservancy majors is basically realized. A group of high-quality specialty brands represented by water conservancy engineering and management, have played a leading role in the similar institutions in Shandong Province and even the whole country, thus forming a professional group of “water conservancy characteristics and engineering advantages”. It provides a strong talent support for the development of modern water conservancy and regional economy.
With the reform of the cooperative development mechanism and innovation of the talent fostering model, the college insists on the school-enterprise cooperation as the key path for improving the quality of talent fostering. It has successively carried out in-depth cooperation with well-known large and medium-sized enterprises such as China Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering No. 13 Engineering Co., Ltd., Rizhao Port Group Co., Ltd., Shandong Wuzheng Group and JD Group. The school-enterprise talent fostering system of “major and curriculum co-construction, teaching materials co-editing, co-training of teachers, sharing of workshops, and talent co-education” was constructed. With the goal of enterprise post-oriented abilities and quality requirements, the company’s professional ethics and spirit are integrated into the whole process of the course, and the ability module learning required by the enterprise is also strengthened in the training and internship. The college combines teaching, production, service, application with vocational education organically, realizing the collaborative innovation of the school-enterprise cooperation mechanism and the talent fostering mode, and improving the quality of talent fostering. Therefore, it was twice rated as a model school for school-enterprise cooperation in Shandong Province by the Shandong Provincial Department of Education.
Talent Development
As the only water conservancy higher vocational college in Shandong Province, we are responsible for cultivating modern water conservancy and high-quality technical and technical talents in serving the “the Belt and Road initiative” and promoting the construction of Shandong Modern Water Conservancy Model Province. Based on the demand for talents in the water conservancy industry and regional economic development, the college clarifies the goal of talent fostering, adheres to the integration of production and education, school-enterprise cooperation, teaches students in accordance with their aptitude, and characteristic development. So far, nearly 100,000 graduates have been delivered to society in the fields of production, construction, management and service. It has become a “reservoir” for high-quality technical talents in Shandong Water Conservancy, providing solid talent and intellectual support for water conservancy and regional economic development.
We recruit students from 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions such as Shandong, Tianjin, Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui and Liaoning. In the past three years, the first-choice online rate has exceeded 100%, the professional employment rate of graduates has reached more than 86%, the proportion of graduates who have obtained vocational skills qualifications has reached 100%, and the overall employment rate of graduates has exceeded 97%. The employment rate of large enterprises such as China Water Resources and Hydropower No. 13 Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd., Shuifa Group Co., Ltd., Shanghai Marine Engineering Construction Co., Ltd., Haier Group and Rizhao Port Group Co., Ltd. exceeded 10%, ranking in the province’s higher vocational colleges. Our students have won 21 special prizes, 41 first prizes, 69 second prizes and 60 third prize in national vocational skill competitions, national water conservancy vocational college skill competitions, Shandong vocational skills competitions and other provincial-level competitions.
Integration of Production and Education and Innovative Development
To construct a three-dimensional social service system, the college persists in the water conservancy industry, serves local economic and social development, and builds a three-dimensional social service system around scientific research and development, technical services, talent fostering, skill appraisal, partner assistance, and community service. In the past three years, 114,386 people have completed their professional training in water conservancy industry, training of Shandong Provincial Water Resources Director, training of immigration cadres in the reservoir area, and training of rural labor transfer. A total of 37 types of work and 16,200 people of vocational skills appraisal work were carried out. The “six-ring and forty-two-step” training mode was adopted and applied by the China Water Conservancy Education Association as the national water conservancy employee education research results. Utilizing seven technical qualifications such as hydrology and water resources survey and evaluation, it has completed more than 60 technical services such as construction project water resources demonstration, and jointly carried out research and development of more than 10 new technologies such as sewage treatment equipment and hydraulic machinery, and carried out more than 200 social services. The technical service amounted to 14.78 million yuan, creating a social and economic benefit of 160 million yuan.
To form a strong research atmosphere, the college has always adhered to the integration strategy of production, education and research. The teachers have inherited and carried forward a good scientific research tradition and achieved fruitful scientific research results. Among them, the national major technical equipment development project “large-channel concrete mechanized lining forming technology and equipment” won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress, and the research results have been widely used in the South-to-North Water Transfer Project, which has exerted enormous economic benefits. In the past three years, the teachers have undertaken more than 500 research projects at the prefectural level and above, represented by the national key project “Research on the construction of backbone ecological river network and water ecological restoration technology in the Yellow River estuary area”, and won more than 200 awards; more than 1,600 papers were published in academic journals or the conference, including more than 400 papers published in Chinese core journals, and more than 200 papers were included in the three major searches (SCI, EI, ISTP); more than 500 patents were obtained, and more than 200 textbooks were published.
Campus Culture
The college adheres to the cultivation of spiritual culture and builds a foundation for educating people. Also, it sticks to Xi Jinping’s theory of ecological civilization construction in the new era, arming teachers and students, educating teachers and students, and pursuing the core values of “people-oriented, water-based” school-running concept, the school motto of “Water-like great virtue with a broad open mind like the sea.” and the concept of harmonious coexistence with people. The college spirit of “unity, hard work, dedication and innovation” is mingled in the pursuit of the spirit of “dedication, responsibility, and truth-seeking”, which is enhancing the cultural identity of the people in the water, and leading us to build a new era of ecological civilization.
Besides, the college adheres to the normative behavior culture to create a cultivating brand. It persists in the top-level design of water culture construction and development, explores water culture resources and practices socialist core values, building a culture system centered on “water culture” and cultural brand featuring “water culture”. It provides talent and intellectual support for national and local water culture construction.
In addition, the college adheres to the construction of material culture and creates an educational atmosphere. It coordinates the construction of campus cultural landscape, pays attention to the exploration of campus architectural culture connotation, and builds a campus water culture education base and water culture research center represented by “Shui Jing Yuan”, further innovating the water culture connotation, enriching the campus culture life of teachers and students, creating a strong water culture education atmosphere, and promoting the development of students’ professional ideals and professional spirit.
International Cooperation
The depth and breadth of international exchanges and cooperation between colleges have been further expanded. Our college has established solid friendship and cooperation with more than 10 universities in 7 countries and regions including Russia National Agricultural University, Malaysia City University, Korea International University, Kunshan University of Science and Technology and Chaoyang University of Science and Technology, also have implemented 9 international cooperation projects. The college has long-term in-depth cooperation with the Russian National Agricultural University and Russia’s Ivanovo National Chemical University. The quality of Sino-Russian cooperation in training students has been continuously improved. The international students have achieved full coverage of undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees, and nearly 500 international students who are standard international talents have been trained. With the close cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Education we have established the only Russian-level foreign language proficiency test (training) center covering East China and North China, and have trained thousands of bilingual talents to serve the strategic cooperation between China and Central Asia.
