College of Information Engineering and Automation

College of Information Engineering and Automation

The college owns two scientific research bases at provincial-level: Civil Aviation Electronic & Electrical Maintenance base and Aviation & Ground Special Equipment Research Base; four research laboratories: Data Analysis Research Laboratory, Robot Research Laboratory, Automatic Instrument & Appliance Research Laboratory and Detection and Maintenance of Airborne Electronic Equipment Research Laboratory.

Many professors are invited as PhD supervisors or journal reviewers because of their achievements in the aviation field. What’s more, many young teachers have the experience of visiting and studying abroad.

The college pays great attention to undergraduate education and develops postgraduate education and continuing education actively. What’s more, the college strengthens the improvement of teaching qualities. Students in our college received many awards in the National Electronic Design Contest, National Mathematical Modeling Contest, National Challenge Cup Contest and National Freescale’s Cup Intelligent Car Contest and so on.   

Scientific research in our college is active and we have made outstanding performance on aircraft’s electronic equipment detection and maintenance, airport equipment and system, aviation safety and energy-saving and emission-reduction fields and so on. Nowadays, about 400 papers have been published and 50 research projects have been conducted, and financial support on scientific research has reached 7 million RMB. We received various kinds of awards from CAAC. These achievements produce huge economic benefits and are highly praised by specialists from civil aviation fields.

 

 

Undergraduate programs

 

• Communication Engineering (English-taught program)

 

1. Training Objective

        Communication engineering is based on civil aviation and serves the society. It meets the needs of the development of country’s new generation of air traffic system and modern communications technology and nurtures high-quality applied talents in civil aviation telecommunications and information communication. Students can be competent for the job and adapt to the career development. They are expected to achieve the following goals:
        (1) Nurture students to adapt to the development of civil aviation communication, navigation, and surveillance technology or modern communication technology. They can not only master and digest the basic knowledge of engineering mathematics and the professional knowledge of communication engineering, but also analyze complex engineering problems and provide systematic solutions.
       (2) Nurture students to track advanced technologies related to civil aviation communication, navigation, and surveillance or information communications. They possess a consciousness of innovation and the ability to deal with engineering applications, systems development and design of correlation techniques in this field with modern tools.
        (3) Nurture students to have a sense of social responsibility, comprehend and uphold civil aviation professional ethics, and fulfill the mainstream spirit of the contemporary aviation industry, bear in mind the considerations to the law and the environment and the need of sustainable development in the conduct of engineering practice, and devote wholeheartedly to the country, society and civil aviation industry.
        (4) Nurture students to have a healthy body and mind, develop good humanitarian qualities and team spirit, and possess communication abilities and engineering project management abilities.
        (5) Nurture students to have international outlook and be able to communicate and cooperate across cultures, be self-motivated in independent and life-long learning, and make active adaptations to the ever-changing situation home and abroad.

2. Graduation Requirements

        (1) Engineering Knowledge: the possession of professional knowledge in mathematics, science, engineering foundation and communication engineering, as well as the ability to apply its theories and methods to solve complex engineering problems in civil aviation communication, navigation, surveillance or information communication fields.
        (2) Problem Analysis: the ability to understand, identify, express and analyze complex engineering problems in civil aviation communication, navigation and surveillance or information communication field by means of literature research and others with application to professional knowledge of mathematics, science and communication engineering to obtain effective conclusions.
        (3) Design/Develop Solutions: the ability to design solutions to complex engineering problems in communication and information system, and module or process to meet functional requirements which reflects the sense of innovation and considers social, health, safety, legal, cultural and environmental factors.
         (4) Research: the ability to design experimental schemes and analyze, process and interpret data based on scientific principles and the utilization of scientific methods, study complex engineering problems in communication and information systems, and obtain reasonable and effective conclusions through information synthesis.
        (5) Use Modern Tools: the ability to reasonably select development tools for complex engineering problems in communication and information systems, properly use technologies and resources applying in prediction and simulation of complex engineering problems, and understand their limitations. 
        (6) Engineering and Society: the ability to make reasonable analysis based on relevant background knowledge of communication engineering major, evaluate the impacts of relevant engineering practices and solutions of complex engineering problems on society, health, safety, law and culture, and understand the responsibilities.
        (7) Environment and Sustainable Development: an understanding of the policies, laws and regulations of the state and civil aviation on environmental protection and sustainable development, as well as an ability to understand and evaluate the impact of complex engineering practices on environmental and social sustainability.
         (8) Professional Standards: the possession of humanitarian qualities , the sense of social responsibility and industry service awareness, as well as an ability to understand and comply with engineering professional ethics and norm and perform their duties in engineering practice.
        (9) Individual and Team: the ability to assume the roles of individual, team member and responsible person in a team under multidisciplinary background with team cooperation spirit, and have certain multi-position adaptability.
       (10) Communication: the ability to communicate with the industry peers and the public effectively on complex engineering issues in communication and information systems, including writing reports, designing manuscripts, making statements, expressing personal opinions clearly, and have international outlook, communicate and exchange each other’s ideas across cultures.
        (11) Project Management: the ability to understand and master the principles of project management and economic decision methods, and apply both of them in the multidisciplinary environment.
        (12) Lifelong Learning: a consciousness as well as physical and psychological quality of self-learning and lifelong learning, and an ability to learn continuously and adapt to development.

3. Cultivation Standard and Research Direction

        The basic length of schooling is 4 years and the flexible length of schooling is 3 to 6 years. Degree to be awarded: bachelor of engineering. This major sets two research directions including modern communications and telecommunications of civil aviation.

4. Major Characteristics and Comparative Advantages

        The goal of nurturing talents conforms to the school development goal and the development needs of the civil aviation industry. According to the technical requirements of International Civil Aviation Organization and Civil Aviation Administration of China, designs and optimizes the teaching content. Strengthen students' comprehensive ability to the system of civil aviation communication, navigation and surveillance equipment. Construct and share the practice teaching base of air traffic control departments, enterprises and related enterprises of civil aviation.

5. Achievements in Major Construction

        This major is the national comprehensive reform pilot specialty and Tianjin brand specialty. It is composed of many well-known experts in the field of communication, navigation and surveillance who has completed or undertaken a large number of national, provincial and ministerial-level subjects and horizontal subjects, and has abundant scientific research strength.

6. Major Status

        This major has a higher professional status. In recent years, its comprehensive ranking of similar majors in 365 Chinese universities is within the top 15% on average, and it ranks the second in Tianjin. In the last few years, it has ranked 35th in the list of the best majors in Chinese universities and has been dubbed as" China's Famous Major ". In 2018, it has been officially approved as a new major to grant doctor degrees.

7. Characteristics of Training Mode

        This major carries out a 3+1+1 program combined bachelor and master degree with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the United States. Students can study in this major for the first three years, and apply to study at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the United States in the fourth year, then study for a master's degree in ERAU in the fifth year. There is an English experimental class in this major. All the basic and core courses of the major are taught in bilingual or full English, which can lay a solid foundation for students to go abroad for further study and postgraduate entrance examination.

 

• Electrical Engineering and Automation

        Electrical engineering and automation is a technology related to the production and application of electric energy based on the theory of electrical science. This major is an important subject in the field of aeronautics and astronautics. It is also an important support for civil aviation aircraft engineering. Based on the needs of modern aircraft maintenance and management industry, we should focus on training application-oriented senior engineers and technicians with professional knowledge of aircraft electrical system, strong engineering practice ability and innovation ability, as well as research, development and management ability. With the development of aircraft towards multi-electrification and intellectualization, the position of electrical system is becoming more and more prominent. The demand for the number of employees is gradually rising. Over the past five years, the employment rate of students has remained above 96%, of which about 90% are in the civil aviation sector. In the 2016 Chinese College Graduates' Pay Rank, CAUC ranked 82nd (620 universities in China participated in the ranking).

        After graduation, students can engage in design, research and development, management, operation and other work in the field of civil aviation electrical engineering, aviation industry, power system enterprises and institutions, and can also be admitted to relevant professional graduate students.

        This major is the first batch of characteristic specialties of CAAC and Tianjin Brand specialty. There are 29 full-time teachers and 13 teachers with senior professional titles. Over the past five years, our teachers have presided over 12 national projects and more than 20 provincial and ministerial projects, compiled more than 10 characteristic textbooks and lectures, and invested more than 12 million CNY in the construction of eight characteristic laboratories. The students have won more than 60 awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels in various competitions.

 

• Electronic Information & Engineering

 

The Electronic & Information Engineering program originated from the program of aviation instrument and aviation radio that was set up during the early years of CAUC. It aims to train application-oriented engineering and technical professionals so as to meet the development needs of the avionics industry. The program attaches great importance to students’ personality development and humanistic literacy, and aims to equip students with international vision, innovative spirit and the ability to work in teams. The program provides students with the opportunity to study electronic technology and information systems in a systematic way, including the basic theory, specialized knowledge and skills. The program prepares graduates to engage in scientific research, technological development and engineering management in the field of avionic maintenance, and equips them with abilities to track and develop new theories, knowledge and technologies in the avionics domain.

 

The electronic & information engineering program enrolls about 400 domestic and foreign students every year.

• Automation
   

I. History:

        The department of Automation is one of the four departments in College of Information Engineering and Automation, Civil Aviation University of China. It was firstly established as the department of Airport Electrical Engineering in December 1994, and was renamed as the department of Automation in June 2002. During the past years, large amounts of engineers in automatic field have been trained for the construction and development of civil airports in China.

II. Training objectives:

        In order to meet the requirements of national economic development, the department of Automation cultivates the high professional engineers to engage in design, development, maintenance, and management of systems & equipment in automatic engineering and technology field, such as Process Automatic system, Motion Control system, Automation Instruments and Measurement and Computer Control system, etc.. Specially, the undergraduates should have the characteristics of civil aviation and can be competent for operation and management of airport & airport automatic instruments. The undergraduates should have these abilities in five years as listed below.

        1) Good scientific and humanistic accomplishment;
        2) Ability of engaging in an automatic engineering project and solving automatic engineering problems based on systematical fundamental theory and technology;
        3) Ability of team work and organization;
        4) Active, creative and self-life-long learning;
        5) Ability of good presentation and international vision.

III. Graduation Criteria

 

IV.Support for Training Objectives

 

V.Curriculum:

1) Core Courses:

    Circuits
  Analog Electronics
  Digital Electronics
      Power electronics technology
  Microcomputer Principle
  Principle of Automatic Control
  Principle of Modern Control
  Sensor and Measurement Technology
  Computer Control Technology
  Automatic Control System
  Engineering Design of Automatic Control System 

2) Special courses:

 Airport Operation and Control
 Airport Security Technology and System
 Visual Navigation Technology and System
 Terminal Automatic System

VI.Undergraduate Program:

        The Department of Automation offers a four-year basic undergraduate program in automation (no less than three years and no more than six years).

VII.Degree (Bachelor of Engineering):

        The undergraduate will be awarded the Bachelor Degree in Engineering after acquiring enough credits listed on the regulations of Civil Aviation University of China.