Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology

Introduction to Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology

Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology (IVT for short, 苏州工业园区职业技术学院) is in order to meet the demand for high-skilled talents in the development and construction of the Suzhou Industrial Park, and to better serve foreign-funded enterprises in the region. Provincial People’s Government officially approved the establishment of a new higher vocational technical college. The new Dushu Lake campus of the college was officially opened in September 2010 and is located at No. 1 Ruoshui Road, Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation Zone, Suzhou Industrial Park.

Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology is the only national model vocational college among the 18 vocational colleges in Suzhou. It is now an advanced national vocational education unit, a national vocational college employment competitiveness demonstration school, and a national vocational college. The school’s charming campus, Jiangsu Province’s advanced unit of teaching work, and Jiangsu Province’s advanced school for international cooperation and exchange in education have been awarded the title of “Advanced Group for Graduate Employment in Jiangsu Province” five times by the Provincial Education Department.

In the past two decades, the college has formed a school style featuring a joint-stock school system, in-depth school-enterprise cooperation, and an international school running vision by actively drawing on advanced vocational education experience in developed countries such as Singapore and Germany.

The Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology has established a board of directors composed of government departments, well-known Chinese and foreign multinational companies, and well-known universities at home and abroad. The members of the board of directors come from the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Singapore and other countries. There are 21 corporate directors, accounting for 70% of the directors, and 16 multinational corporate directors, accounting for 53% of the directors. The composition structure and operating mechanism of the “Dean’s Responsibility System” under the leadership of the Board of Directors integrates the resources of the government, enterprises and schools, and provides strong support for the development of the college from the aspects of policy, funding, and specialty. effect. The board of directors plays a role in participating in the development of the college, and participates in the college’s professional construction, curriculum, teacher selection, training room construction, scholarships, student placement and other work links. In addition, it also provides college teachers with Visiting the places and opportunities of engineers has greatly promoted the formation of the dual-subject talent training model of the college “Enterprise + College”.

Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology introduced Singapore’s “pro-business philosophy” in the field of public management in the course of running a school and made it clear as “pro-business philosophy”. In the past 20 years of the development of the college, a variety of school-enterprise cooperation models have been formed. For the common growth of the college and enterprises, it has explored the “BOSCH model-order training”, “CHARMILLES model-sharing of use rights”, “SAMSUNG model-corporate university “, The same journey mode-teaching factory”, “PHILIPS mode-joint laboratory”, “AMD mode-access engineer” six school-enterprise cooperation modes. Through these cooperations, the college has established cooperative relationships with 1,100 companies, and established more than 300 off-campus internship bases. The two sides have achieved the same goals, standards and cooperation throughout the process, and gradually formed a “dual-subject” talent training model for schools and enterprises. . So far, about 40% of the graduates of the college’s engineering majors have entered the Fortune 500 companies, 80% of the graduates are employed in foreign-funded enterprises, and nearly 80% of the students have served as production line leaders, team leaders, technicians, new employee trainers Wait.

Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology employs a total of 156 part-time teachers from the front line of the enterprise, and has introduced and trained 157 dual-skilled backbone teachers, 1 national teaching master, 3 provincial teaching masters, and Jiangsu’s “333” third Three levels of talents were trained, 9 were trained in the “Blue and Blue Project” in Jiangsu Province, and 16 “double-hundred” talents in Suzhou Jinji Lake-Suzhou high-skilled leaders. The college has also made full use of its favorable conditions as the director unit of the Suzhou Doctoral Fellowship and the Park Doctoral Fellowship, and has hired more than 140 returnees who are senior managers in the enterprise and local doctors to serve as the “one dollar professor” of the college. The guide for students to understand cutting-edge technology and corporate culture, and also the “mentor” of the college teachers, has effectively promoted the “internationalization” process of the college teachers.

Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology currently has 44 majors (including professional directions), more than 5,000 students of various types, and more than 400 teaching and administrative staff. The college has 6 national key majors and 14 provincial key majors, a total of 20 (not repeated), accounting for 47.6% of the total number of college majors; 1 provincial brand major, 5 high-level backbone majors, and provincial level There are 7 specialty majors, accounting for 17.5% of the total number of college majors. There are 6 national excellent (resource sharing) courses and 10 provincial excellent courses, accounting for 3.03% of the total courses offered. In the 2011-2015 academic year, the college applied for a total of 643 patents, including 385 invention patents and 254 utility model patents. Another 104 invention patents and 133 new utility patents have been authorized by the State Intellectual Property Office.

Teaching Program

ISAC Teach in China Program