The Southampton Ocean Engineering Joint Institute at Harbin Engineering University(hereinafter referred to as the “JEI”) is the first Sino-British cooperative educational institution with ship and ocean characteristics approved by the Ministry of Education. The JEI is an important measure for HEU to promote the construction of "double first-class", to carry out high-level substantive international cooperation and exchanges, to enable the related disciplines to become world-class, and to promote the overall improvement of personnel training and scientific research; it is also an important breakthrough while facing the urgent needs of professionals in the field of marine engineering and shipbuilding industry, adhering to the concept of open education, gathering high-quality education resources, facilitating the innovation of our international cooperation, personnel training and management, and comprehensively enhancing the capacities of education.
The JEI will give full play to the combined advantages of HEU and UoS in the field of marine equipment and science and technology, absorb the advanced educational concepts from both, build a first-class faculty, and innovate personnel training models and management mechanisms to reach our goal of cultivating comprehensive, outstanding, and innovative talents with both international vision and patriotic enthusiasm and an all-round development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and industrious qualities. We are bound to open a new chapter in the cooperation of education and science and technology between Chinese and British universities in the maritime field under the comprehensive strategic partnership of "Smart Ocean".
Characteristics
“4+0” Model
▪A 4-year full-time study in Harbin Engineering University
▪Ample opportunities of studying abroad offered by both HEU and UoS.
Chinese and British Diplomas
▪Register and enrolment in both HEU and UoS;
▪An HEU graduation certificate, an HEU Bachelor’s degree certificate and a UoS Bachelor’s degree certificate are to be granted to qualified graduates.
Resource Introduction
▪Courses: 44 courses from UoS introduced, accounting for 44%
▪Faculty: 44 foreign teachers introduced, accounting for 45.8%
▪Textbooks: 94 foreign textbooks introduced
▪Quality Management: QME Framework from UoS introduced
International Curriculum Construction
▪Courses and books designed and developed jointly by HEU and UoS, all English teaching;
▪Programmes accredited by Royal Institution of Naval Architects(RINA), Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (IMarEST), Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Institute of Acoustics (IOA).
"First-class Faculty" team
▪High-quality teachers from both universities, and over 1/3 of the courses held by British teachers;
▪Teacher admission must meet the UoS standards, and the academic tutor system and international supervision system guarantee the quality of education;
▪The educational and teaching management teams of the JEI are led by the Joint Management Committee, Academic Committee and Examination Committee of the JEI.
Research and Practice Resources
▪HEU and UoS have world-class scientific research strength in the field of marine engineering. In 2018, HEU’s per capita scientific research funding ranked fourth in China, and the per student value of teaching and research equipment was ￥ 47,529.14. The University of Southampton ranks 5th among the British universities for funding allocated by RCUK (ahead of Oxford);
▪JEI students can enjoy complete laboratory and experimental equipment provided by the two universities, and also a wealth of practical teaching resources such as on- and off-campus internship, and have access to the world-class marine scientific research laboratories to study;
▪All classrooms of the JEI are “smart classroom” equipped, featuring an internationally advanced virtual interactive teaching platform.
Institute-Enterprise Cooperation
▪Marine professional training under the University of Southampton’s cooperation with Lloyd’s Register;
▪Special scholarships offered by Lloy’s Register, American Bureau of Shipping, Bureau Veritas, DNV-GL, Class NK and large shipbuilding enterprises (institutes) home and abroad.
Employment Security
▪Harbin Engineering University adheres to the goal of elite education and strives to cultivate first-class engineers, industry leaders and scientists. The total supply-demand ratio of graduates has been maintained at more than 1:3, the one-time employment rate of undergraduates has remained above 95%, and HEU graduates have been employed by more than 140 units of shipbuilding industry, and are also favoured by well-known companies such as Baidu, Tencent, Huawei, and ZTE;
▪Statistics of national student survey reflect a high satisfaction level from UoS students.In the most recent national student survey, 100% of acoustical engineering students and 91% of oceanography students at the University of Southampton were satisfied with their courses. The postgraduate employment rate of the University of Southampton leads all universities in the UK. UoS Naval Engineering graduates are popular among maritime professionals. The average employment rate within 6 months of graduation in the past five years is 92%, of which professional postgraduate students account for 95%. In the past 5 years, the average employment rate of UoS acoustics graduates within 6 months of graduation was 96%, and 96% of the graduates were employed or further studied in the same professional field.
Opportunities of International Exchanges
▪Foreign language examination fee reimbursement offered;
▪Practical training opportunities in international organizations offered；
▪Opportunities to go to University of Southampton to participate in part of courses and practice activities, and other opportunities of high quality international exchanges, such as the University of Technology Sydney practice programme (Australia), the Monash General English Language Programme (Australia), the Strathclyde Summer School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (U.K.), and the Summer School of Technical University of Munich Asia (Singapore), etc. offered.
