Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (abbreviated STDU, also known as Tieda and Tieyuan; Chinese: 石家庄铁道大学), is a national key university in China, specialised in transportation science, engineering and technology and information technology, etc. STDU is currently under the joint administration of th
People's Government of Hebei Province the
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
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State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence of the People's Republic of China an
National Railway Administration of the People's Republic of China It has been selected, with
Tsinghua University,
Zhejiang University,
Shanghai Jiaotong University,
Beijing Jiaotong University,
Beijing Institute of Technology and other key universities, for the "Educating and Training Program for Outstanding Engineers" () of the Ministry of Education. In 2016, STDU was listed as the key supporting first-class universities and first-class-discipline construction university.
STDU was formerly known as the Railway Engineering Institute of the People's Liberation Army (Army), founded in 1950, and was then one of the key universities in the Army. In 1979, STDU was listed as a national key university. In 1984, it was transferred to and under the administration of the
Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China
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and renamed as Shijiazhuang Railway Institute. In 2000, it was transferred to Hebei Province, implementing jointly construction by the central government and the local government. In March 2010, it was renamed as Shijiazhuang Tiedao University.
As of July, 2018, STDU has nineteen schools and departments and twenty-five research institutes. There are fifty-one undergraduate majors. STDU currently has more than 1,400 staff, 23,800 full-time undergraduate students and 2,700 postgraduates at both masters and doctorals levels.
Its campus is situated in the suburb of
Shijiazhuang
Shijiazhuang (; ; Mandarin: ), formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang, is the capital and most populous city of China’s North China's Hebei Province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about southwest of Beijin ...
city, the provincial capital of
Hebei Province.
Notable faculty and alumni
*Yanliang Du (杜彦良, 1956), Pro-Vice Chancellor of Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Professor & Fellow of Chinese Academy of Engineering
* Changyu Shen (申长雨, 1963), Director of the State Intellectual Property Office of The People's Republic of China, Professor & Fellow of Chinese Academy of Science
Hai-Sui Yu(余海岁, 1964-), Pro-Vice Chancellor of
Nottingham University, DSc., Professor & Fellow of British Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
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Zhengxu Zhao
Zhengxu Zhao FRSA (; born February 1960, in Qingdao) is a Chinese engineer and computer scientist.
He was educated with a BSc and MSc in Engineering at Shandong University, China, and PhD in Computing at Staffordshire University, UK, and has he ...
(赵正旭, 1960-), Chief Scientist in space mission visualization & control, DSc., Professor & Fellow of British Royal Society of Arts (FRAS)
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Edward Zhang (张晓晨, 1983-), singer, actor and model in mainland China.
References
External links
Shijiazhuang Tiedao University (STDU)School of Civil Engineering, STDU
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Universities and colleges in Hebei
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