The School of Textile Science and Engineering, established as Textile Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Wuyi University in 1988, is one of the key schools of Wuyi University and the only institution to grant students’ bachelor degree and master degree of Textile Engineering in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Textile Engineering was rated as the provincial famous brand major and as the characteristic major in Guangdong Province in 2004 and in 2010, respectively.
Textile Engineering has formed a teaching system including Department of Textile and Department of Light Chemical, which are subdivided into four programs covering Modern Textile Technology and Application, Knitwear Design and Clothing, Dyeing and Finishing, and Nonwoven Materials and Engineering. The major research areas currently include biomaterials and biomedical-healthcare textiles, smart textile materials, flexible wearable technology and green dyeing and finishing technology.
The School of Textile Science and Engineering is committed to fostering high-level applied talents, who are able to tackle complex textile engineering problems and work in a variety of positions in textile-related fields. It owns many essential educational platforms including Provincial Engineering Technology and Research Center, Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, Provincial Off-Campus Practice Base, Guangdong and Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for New Textile Materials, Industrial College of Modern Textiles and so on. The School has over 1,300 sets of instruments, which are valued at more than 47.6 million yuan and distributed in various laboratories with a total area of 6,000 square meters, consisting of sophisticated experimental instruments and first-class testing equipment for textile materials.
The teaching faculty has 44 members (involving two distinguished professors), one of whom was awarded by the Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Youth Program. And there are currently 1600 undergraduate and graduate students. In the past three years, our faculty, as the first person in charge, undertook and hosted over 70 scientific research funds involving National Natural Science Foundation of China research projects, had more than 100 papers published in core journals and over 30 scientific papers in Science Citation Index( SCI) journals, patented over 50 inventions, published two national and industry standards and won 7 awards including National Invention Exhibition Invention Enterprise Award.
In the future, aiming at cultivating application-oriented and advanced talents to promote textile industrial upgrading for South China, the School of Textile Science and Engineering will continue to identify the features of talent cultivation, deepen the integration of industry and education, integrate science and education to cultivate talents, improve the innovation and entrepreneurship education system.
