Profile of Shanxi Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering(SIMEE)
Founded in 1958, it is a full-time ordinary higher vocational college sponsored by the people's Government of Shanxi Province and directly under the Department of Education of Shanxi Province. The college is the national modern apprenticeship pilot vocational college determined by the Ministry of education; the only higher vocational college prized as National College with Huang Danian style teaching team in Shanxi Province. The college won the "Top 50 Influential Asia Pacific Vocational Colleges in 2019", and was selected as the construction unit of high-level higher vocational schools and specialty construction plan (double high program) with Chinese characteristics in 2019.
Campus and Infrastructure
The college covers an area of more than 500,000 square meters with a total fixed assets value of 240 million RMB. The value of teaching instruments and equipment is more than 80 million yuan. There are more than 400,000 books in the library. The stadium covers an area of more than 33,000 square meters. The modern campus, which integrates modernization, digitalization and gardening, is like a magnificent picture scroll which transcends the vulgarity and unfolds in front of us. A total of 8,300 students learns in the college.
Departments
There are 7 departments including Mechanical Engineering Department, Numerical Control Engineering Department, Electrical Engineering Department, Automobile Engineering Department, Information Engineering Department, Material Engineering Department, Economic and Trade Management Department. Now it has 50 majors (including professional direction), such as, CNC technology, machinery manufacturing and automation, etc.
Following the development of equipment manufacturing industry, focusing on the "Internet +", China manufacturing 2025 and meeting the market demand, shaping "intellectualization" feature, and focusing on serving the modern equipment manufacturing industry with manufacturing specialties. It has built up new majors such as Industrial Robotics, Mechatronic Technology of Urban Rail Transit, and New Energy Vehicle Technology. And has formed a pattern of Mechanical-based with electricity penetration, combining both technology and management, together with the existing majors: 3 national machinery industry majors, 5 characteristic majors, five provincial-level brand majors, four provincial-level special majors, nine provincial-level construction majors and three backbone majors of Shanxi higher vocational colleges.
Talent Training and Teaching Mode
As the leading unit of Shanxi Equipment Manufacturing Vocational Education Group and the chairman of Vocational Education Branch of Shanxi Machinery and Electronics Industry Federation, the college, relying on more than 300 enterprises, institutions and scientific research institutes within the group and the branch, actively explores and implements the talent training mode of combination of work and learning with rich connotation, such as modern apprenticeship, order training, work- study alternation and base construction. The teaching mode reform of "learning by doing, learning and training integrated" should be carried out in an all-round way. A network of graduate employment bases based on Shanxi, radiating the coastal areas and facing the whole country has been established. The employment rate of graduates has been maintained above 95% for many years.
Faculty and Scientific Innovation
The college has 325 teaching staff, including 291 full-time teachers, 14 professors, more than 70 senior professional and technical personnel, and more than 130 "double qualification" teachers.
We have provincial famous teachers and excellent double-qualified teachers in Higher Vocational colleges, Shanxi technical experts and Shanxi Female model, as well as the first batch of Huangdanian-style teachers in China. The advanced collective of the national education system have built up the talent pool of the college.
International communication and social services
The college strengthens cooperation with high-quality universities outside Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and conducts efficient cooperation in the training of high-end technical skills and the cultivation of teaching staff. Actively participate in the research and formulation of international standards and rules for vocational education, and introduce international advanced, mature and applicable vocational education resources such as German AHK professional qualification technical standards, ABB industrial robots and applied junior engineer certification test, and actively apply for the SGAVE project of the Ministry of Education. We spare no efforts to cultivate technical skills talents from an international perspective, serve the Belt and Road Initiative national strategy, encourage students to go overseas to work and to participate in international skill competitions, conduct joint training with large enterprises which actively expand their international business worldwide, and build overseas colleges with Wankai Vocational and Technical College of Thailand (SIMEE Silk Road College in Thailand) to provide vocational education for local employees.
