The College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering is a member of the HoHaiUniversity, an integrated entirety of education, scientific research and engineering consulting. The college has long history and characteristics with water science and technology. The college currently contains two departments, one program responsible for speciality development, one research institute and two academic divisions. Among which the research institute of safety monitor and control of water conservancy and hydropower engineering projects, headed by Professor Wu Zhongru. The Academician of the Chinese Engineering Academy , enjoys high reputation in domestic and abroad. The research academic accomplishments from the institute are ranked among the first class in international technology community. In addition, both the center of safety monitor of metal structures under the Ministry of Water Resources, and the center of safety engineering research under the Ministry of Education are annexed to the college as well.
Currently, there is a faculty composed of 115 teachers and researchers in the college, of them 54%personnel are equivalent to or higher than associate professor level, including one Academician of the Chinese Engineering Academy, 22 Professors qualified as PhD supervisor, and 34 Professors. The faculty in the college is noted for its excellence, vitality and diversity.
The college offers four-year undergraduate programs leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science, and graduate curricula leading to the degree of Master of Science in six majors: Hydraulics and River Dynamics, Hydraulic Structure Engineering, Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Water Disaster and Water Safety, Machinery Design and Theory, and Disaster Prevention and Relief and Protection Facilities, and Doctor of Philosophy in four majors: Hydraulics and River Dynamics, Hydraulic Structure Engineering, Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, and Water Disaster and Water Safety. Currently there are about 1200 undergraduate students enrolled in the college, 700 students are studying towards Master Degree and 200 for PhD. A post-Doctor work-station in the college accommodates PhD holders for their further studies.
After the development for several decades, the speciality of the Water Conservancy and Hydropower in the college has been judged top in China. The employment records of the graduates from the college are excellent , the immediate employment rates of the graduates in the recent years have been kept ninety-nine percent except those who continue their studies in advanced programs. The college has trained about ten thousand students with different degrees from Bachelor, Master to PhD. The distinguished alumni include the Academicians of the Chinese Science Academy and the Chinese Engineering Academy , Professors, PhD supervisors, Senior Engineers, and officials and chief technical-administrators in Ministry or Province level. All of them have made great contributions to the water conservancy and hydropower development in China. In addition, a good deal of foreign students from Asia and Africa has been trained in the college.
In recent years, the faculty in the college has been working for more than forty items of the national science-technology tough problem attacking and key engineering projects. The research funds obtained summed into several ten million Chinese-Yuan. The faculty members of the college have won eighteen items of the National Science-Technology Advance Awards, in the first, second and third grades, and twenty-eight items of the Science-Technology Advance Awards from the National Education Committee, and Ministry and Province Governments. The faculty members have published 1200 papers and more than 100 monographs.2100433B
