湖南工程学院坐落于一代伟人毛泽东的故乡湖南省湘潭市，是湖南省人民政府举办的本科院校。学校是教育部“服务国家特殊需求人才培养项目”硕士专业学位研究生教育试点高校、教育部首批“卓越工程师教育培养计划”、“新工科研究与实践项目”实施高校；是湖南省硕士学位授予立项建设单位、首批“2011计划”入选高校。2018年，学校入选湖南省“双一流”建设高水平应用特色学院。

湖南工程学院于2000年6月由原湘潭机电高等专科学校（始创于1951年，隶属于原国家机械工业部，是全国示范性高等工程专科重点建设学校）、湖南纺织高等专科学校（始创于1978年，隶属于原湖南省纺织工业厅）合并组建而成。学校秉承“锲而不舍，敢为人先”的校训和“团结、严谨、诚信、创新”的校风，坚持“应用型人才培养”的办学定位，形成了鲜明的工程应用型人才培养特色。学校是“全国工程应用型本科教育协作组”副组长单位、“全国高等学校教学研究会应用型本科院校专门委员会”副主任委员单位、“普通高等教育应用型人才培养规划教材编审委员会”主任委员单位、“全国地方高校卓越工程教育校企联盟”副理事长单位和“中国教育国际交流协会应用型高校国际交流分会”理事单位。2007年，以优异成绩通过教育部本科教学工作水平评估；2018年，通过教育部本科教学工作审核评估。

学校现有主校区和南校区2个校区，校园占地面积1806亩，建筑面积52.8万平方米。主校区依傍湘江水，坐拥木鱼湖，山水相间，风光秀丽，是湖南省“园林式单位”和“文明高等学校”。

学校紧密对接区域经济和机电、纺织行业发展需要，以培养高素质应用型人才为目标，形成了电气、机械、纺织、化工、管理等优势专业群，涵盖工、管、文、理、经、艺等学科门类。学校现设有16个教学院（部、中心）、55个本科专业，1个工程硕士专业学位点（包括动力工程、纺织工程两个专业领域）。拥有湖南省“双一流”建设应用特色学科8个；教育部“卓越计划”实施专业8个；国家级、省级特色专业8个，国家级、省级专业综合改革试点专业6个。机械设计制造及其自动化、电气工程及其自动化2个专业通过工程教育专业认证。现有国家级实践教育平台4个，国家级大学生科技创新团队1个。省级创新创业平台16个，省级校企合作人才培养示范基地、优秀实习基地14个。教育部产学合作协同育人项目51项，省级精品课程、省高校信息化应用建设项目32项。金工实习基地是教育部确定的全国高校金工实习教学指导人员培训与考试中心。

学校坚持人才强校战略，现有教职工1160人，其中专任教师877人，高级职称教师362人；具有博士、硕士学位教师727人，博士生、硕士生导师88人。全国模范（优秀）教师3人，享受国务院、省政府特殊津贴专家4人，教育部新世纪优秀人才2人，教育部、教育厅专业教学指导委员会委员6人；省级教学名师、省部级优秀教师12人，省级学科带头人14人，省“新世纪121人才工程”人选21人，省级青年骨干教师61人；省级教学团队、省高校科技创新团队5个。

学校积极推进科学研究，大力提升创新能力和社会服务能力。拥有省“2011”协同创新中心、省重点实验室等省级科研平台12个，省级虚拟仿真实验中心、示范实验室（中心）9个；省高校产学研合作示范基地3个，校地合作基地1个。近年来，获国家级、省部级项目560项；获省部级、厅（市）级科研成果奖384项；获得各类专利440项；发表高水平学术论文1198篇。学校大力加强产学研合作，先后与240余家企业签订了合作协议，与企业签订重大项目110项，与企业和科研院所签订横向科研项目496项，科研经费2.02亿元，产生经济效益约100亿余元。

学校坚持开放办学战略，深入开展对外交流与合作，是湖南省最早开办中外合作办学项目的高校之一。已与美国、澳大利亚、英国、新西兰等国家20余所高校签署了校际合作协议，开设了2个本科专业和2个专科专业的国际合作教育项目。

学校始终立足湖南、面向全国、服务区域经济和产业发展，68年工程教育积淀，20年应用型本科人才培养的探索与实践，10年“卓越计划”的深度实施，为机电、纺织行业和社会经济建设输送了11万多名高素质人才。近年来，毕业生就业率一直保持在96%以上。

面向未来，学校将在习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想指导下，坚持以立德树人为根本任务，坚持质量立校、人才强校、特色兴校。全校师生员工积极进取，开拓创新，坚持和深化应用型办学定位，全面推进内涵发展和特色发展，大力加强“双一流”建设和新工科建设，不断提高人才培养质量、科技创新能力和社会服务能力，努力把学校建设成为优势突出、特色鲜明、位居全国同类院校先进行列的高水平工程应用型大学，以优异成绩献礼新中国成立70周年。

     HIE Profile

Hunan Institute of Engineering (HIE), located in Xiangtan City, the hometown of Chairman Mao Zedong, is an undergraduate university sponsored by the People’s Government of Hunan Province. HIE is qualified as a pilot university to enroll master degree candidates to “serve the national item of talent cultivation for special needs”. It’s among the first batch of colleges and universities to launch “Outstanding Engineers Education and Training Plans” and “New Engineering Research and Practice Project” approved by Ministry of Education, and one of the first to be selected in “2011 Project”. HIE is also a project construction unit awarding the master’s degree. In 2018, HIE was entitled to the high-level application-oriented university in the “Double First-class” Initiative of Hunan Province.

Approved by the Ministry of Education in June 2000, the official name HIE came into being as a result of the merger of Xiangtan Institute of Machinery and Electricity Technology and Hunan Textile College. Xiangtan Institute of Machinery and Electricity Technology, founded in 1951, affiliated with the former State Machinery Industry, was appraised to be one of the National Demonstration Key Institutions of College Education for Engineering. Hunan Textile College, founded in 1978, was attached to Hunan Provincial Bureau of Textile Industry. Abiding by the motto of “Perseverance and Initiative” and the spirit of “Unity, Strictness, Integrity and Innovation”, HIE has stuck to its orientation of “cultivating application-oriented talents” and has gained particular characteristics of engineering application-oriented talents. HIE is a deputy-group-leader unit of “National Application-oriented Engineering College Education Collaborative Group”, a deputy-director unit of “Application-oriented undergraduate Special Committee for National Higher Education Research Association”, and a chairman unit of “National Higher Education Editorial Committee for appointed texts for Application -oriented Talents Cultivation”. HIE is also a vice-director unit of “National Union of Local Universities and Enterprises for Outstanding Engineers Education” and a director unit of “Application -oriented College Branch of China Education Association for International Exchange”. In 2007, HIE passed the Undergraduate Teaching Assessment by the Ministry of Education. In 2018, it passed the Undergraduate Teaching Work Audit and Evaluation by the Ministry of Education. 

HIE possesses the main campus and the south campus, covering a total area of 1.204 square kilometers, with a construction area of 0.528 square kilometers. The main campus, located beside the Xiangjiang River, is in good company with the scenic belt along the river and the Muyu Lake. With its beautiful scenery, HIE is awarded the honors of “Garden Unit” and “Civilized Institution of Higher Learning” in Hunan Province.

In order to integrate the development of regional economy and electromechanical and textile industry, HIE aims at cultivating high-quality talents with practical skills and has build a comprehensive discipline category with electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, textile engineering, chemical engineering and management as its superior specialties, and engineering, management, liberal arts, science, economics and art developing synergistically. With 16 teaching departments, HIE offers 55 bachelor degrees and has 1 master degree program(including 2 majors of power engineering and textile engineering). HIE has 8 provincial “Double First-Class” disciplines of application features, 8 experimental specialties inscribed on “the Outstanding Engineers Education and Training Plans” by the Ministry of Education, 8 national and provincial characteristic specialties, and 6 national and provincial comprehensive reform pilot specialties. There are 2 specialties, namely, Mechanical Design Manufacture and Automation, Electrical Engineering and Automation, entitled to professional certification for Engineering Education. HIE has established 4 National Practical Education Platforms, 1 National Science and Technology Innovation Team for College Students, 16 Provincial Platforms for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 14 Provincial Demonstration Bases for University-Industry Cooperation and Talent Cultivation, or Excellent Practice Bases. Moreover, HIE has undertaken 51 Ministerial Collaborative Training Programs for Industry-University Cooperation and 32 Provincial Excellent Courses and Information Application Construction Projects of Higher Education. Besides, the Metalworking Practice Base has been appointed as the Training and Examination Center of Metalworking Teaching Staff in Institutions of Higher Learning.

HIE has adopted the strategy for enhancing the university by talents. There are 1160 teaching and administrative staff, including 877 full-time teachers among which there are 362 people with senior-title, 727 people with doctor or master degree and 88 doctoral and master supervisors. There are 3 National Model (or Excellent) Teachers, 4 experts awarded with Special Allowance of the State Council or Special Allowance of the Hunan Provincial Government, 2 New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, 6 members of the Instructive Committee under the Ministry of Education or the Education Department of Hunan Province, 12 Provincial and Ministerial Renowned Teachers, 14 Provincial Discipline Leaders, 21 selected in the provincial “Program for New Century 121 Talents”, 61 awarded the provincial “Young Backbone Teachers”. There are 5 Provincial Teaching Teams and Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Teams of Higher Education. 

      HIE actively propels scientific research and constantly improves the capacity of innovation and social service. HIE boasts 12 provincial scientific research platforms, including “2011” Collaborative Innovation Center and Provincial Key Laboratories. There are 9 Provincial Centers of Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching and Demonstration Laboratories, 3 Provincial Demonstration Bases of Industry-University-Research Cooperation and 1 Base of University-Local Authorities Cooperation. In recent years, HIE has undertaken 560 national and provincial scientific research projects, won 384 scientific and technological awards at the provincial, ministerial and municipal levels, obtained 440 patents, and published 1198 high-quality academic papers. HIE energetically strengthens the Industry-University-Research cooperation and has established a strategic cooperative relationship with more than 240 enterprises, signed contracts on 110 significant projects, and signed 496 horizontal research projects, with a total research funds of 0.202 billion RMB, which has brought economic benefits of more than 10 billion RMB.

    HIE persists in open education and strengthens cooperation and exchanges with foreign universities. It is among the first batch to launch collaborative project with foreign universities. HIE has established cooperative relations with over 20 universities in such countries as the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and set up 4 international cooperative education projects of bachelor degree and college degree.

    Since its foundation, HIE has been sticking to the notion of finding a foothold in Hunan, opening up to the whole nation, and serving the development of regional economy and industry. HIE has accumulated experience in engineering education for 68 years, researched and practiced in the cultivation of application-oriented undergraduates for 20 years, and deepened the implementation of Outstanding Engineers Education and Training Plans for 10 years, thus providing over 110,000 highly competent personnel for industries of machinery, electricity and textile and social economic development. In recent years, the employment rate remains above 96%.

    Facing the future, HIE will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, undertake the fundamental mission of “enhancing morality and fostering talents”, and stick to the principle of running the institute by quality, talents and characteristics. The entire faculty and students will strive to deepen the orientation of running the school, advance intensive development and characteristic development, accelerate promoting “Double First-Class” Initiative and New Engineering Course Construction, improve the quality of talents cultivation and the capacity of innovation and serving the society, so as to build a first-class engineering-focused and application-oriented university with striking features for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of New China with honors.