Brief Introduction to Wuxi Institute of Technology
(WXIT)
Wuxi Institute of Technology (WXIT), founded
in October of 1959, is an independent and full-time public
higher vocational institute, which was authorized by the National
Education Ministry and is under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu
Education Office. In 2003, WXIT got the titles of ¡°National
CNC Urgently-needed Talents Cultivation Base ¡± and ¡°Jiangsu
Cultivation and Training Base for Urgently-needed Talents
of Automobile Technology¡±. Moreover, WXIT has successively
won the titles of ¡°National Advanced Institution of Vocational
Education¡±, ¡°Advanced Institution of Jiangsu Vocational Education¡±,
¡°Advanced Institution of Jiangsu Graduate Employment¡±, and
so on. In December of 2006, WXIT has been authorized by the
Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance as one of the
first group of twenty-eight colleges of ¡°Constructing Institution
of National Higher Vocational Model College¡±.
WXIT is located near the beautiful Tai Hu Lake,
and it occupies an area of 860 Mu with a building area of
216,000 square meters. At present it has about 10,000 full-time
students living and studying on campus and there are other
3,000 students in the city of Wuxi receiving part-time training
at our institute every year.
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WXIT has set up 10 academic departments, namely
the Department of Machinery, the Department of Automobile
Engineering, the Department of Electro-mechanics, the Department
of Automation, the Department of Electronics Engineering,
the Department of Business and Management, the Department
of Computer Science, the Department of Fundamental Education,
the Department of Continuous Education & Training and
the Department of Practice & Training. The setting of
the institute¡¯s majors mainly focuses on the backbone industry
of Jiangsu¡ªmanufacturing. Therefore a major set of departments
has been created focusing on the industry chain. All of these
programs adapt themselves to the manufacturing industry-chain
including core industries, relevant industries and additive
industries. Among them, CNC Technology Application and Automobile
Technology and Service are the National Key Majors, Modern
Electric Technology is the Provincial Demonstrative Major,
and the specialties of Mold and Die Design and Manufacturing,
Computer Science and Technology and Marketing are Provincial
Featured Majors. Electro-mechanical Automation and Robot Technology
are Key Majors within the institute.
In 2003, WXIT became the first affiliate member
of the American Association Community Colleges for International
Development (CCID). In 2005, WXIT started the joint-education
program of ¡°International Business (Global Marketing)¡± with
TAFE Southwestern Sydney Institute, Australia. Still, WXIT
is on the march of upgrading the internationalization of vocational
education to the next level.
