Introduction to the School of Computer Engineering

The School of Computer Engineering of Jiangsu Ocean University consists of three teaching units - Department of Computer Science and Technology, Department of Software Engineering, and Department of Network Engineering, along with labs and research organizations - the Provincial Engineering Center of Smart Port, the Software Engineering and Technology Center, Lab for Embedded Systems, Lab for Intelligent Information Technology, Lab for Cloud Computing and Big Data, and the city’s Key Lab for IOT Technology and Virtual Reality. At present, the school offers four undergraduate programs – Computer Science and Technology, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, and Data Science and Big Data Technology – and an academically oriented postgraduate program in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System, with an enrollment of 1,293 undergraduate students and 80 graduate students.

Computer Science and Technology, the main discipline of the school, was classified as a key discipline of Jiangsu Province in 2011 and listed as a provincial key discipline in the 13th Five-Year Plan in 2016. The undergraduate program in Computer Science and Technology was listed as a distinctive program of the province in 2010 and was included in the category of key programs in 2012, which involves the majors in Computer Science and Technology (CS), Software Engineering, and Network Engineering. In 2015, the CS undergraduate program was priority funded (class A) by the Jiangsu Provincial Brand Program Construction Project and entitled as the Jiangsu Provincial Brand Program in 2019. In 2020, the CS program was included in the National Project for First-class Undergraduate Program Construction (Double Ten Thousand Plan, to build 10,000 excellent undergraduate programs both at the national and provincial level), which indicates our new progress in the cultivation of professional talents.

Staff and Facilities

The school currently has 65 full-time teachers, including 26 professors and associate professors, and 27 teachers with doctoral degrees. One of them has been awarded the title of "Provincial Excellent Education Worker", and two of them have been awarded the title of "Teaching Master" at the city level. The big data teaching team has been approved as an excellent teaching team of the "Qinglan Project." In addition, the college has hired more than 10 doctoral supervisors and senior research and development personnel from well-known domestic universities and software companies as part-time or visiting professors. Over the past five years, the teachers in the school have undertaken and completed over 50 research projects sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology and organizations at provincial or municipal levels and over 70 lateral cooperation projects, published more than 400 research papers, had 21 research results identified at provincial or municipal levels, won 25 research prizes at the municipal level or above, and obtained nearly 20 national patents and over 70 software copyrights. With great efforts put into the teaching reform and construction, the teachers have undertaken over 40 educational and teaching projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education or organizations at provincial or university levels, published more than 20 textbooks and monographs, and received four first and second prizes in excellent teaching granted by the provincial government. "Network Management Technology" and "Object-oriented programming" have been included in the first-class courses of the National 10,000 excellent courses project. Moreover, three courses were also selected as first-class courses in Jiangsu Province.

Having vigorously constructed teaching and learning facilities, the school has built a beautiful and well-equipped environment for teaching and research, including a number of high quality platforms for experimental teaching and R&D jointly sponsored by the central and local governments such as the Smart Port Engineering Center of Jiangsu Province, Cloud Computing and Big Data Laboratory, the Internet of Things and Embedded System Laboratory, Robots and Intelligent System Laboratory, IOS and Mobile Development Laboratory, Software Engineering Technology Center, Virtual Simulation and Enhanced Reality Laboratory, Network Engineering and Network Management Laboratory, Network Security and Countermeasures Laboratory and over 10 teaching bases concerning practice and training jointly established with prestigious software companies and research institutes across China.

The school actively carries out the training of embedded excellent engineers and explores an international software talent training model. It has cooperated extensively with well-known IT companies, research institutions, and universities such as Microsoft, IBM, ATA, d-Ear Technologies, Tarena International, Tsinghua University, and Nanjing Tech University. The college has set up a "Blue Dream Maker Space" specifically for students majoring in this field, providing dedicated supervisors and excellent experimental facilities for students involved in scientific innovation and disciplinary competitions.

Talent Cultivation

The school has always insisted on talent cultivation as the core and continuously improved the level of talent cultivation through the promotion of engineering education accreditation. In the school, efforts have been made to focus on students as the center and fully leverage their role as the main participants in educational activities. The school is guided by the effectiveness of talent cultivation, fully excavating students' learning initiative and cultivating their learning ability, practical ability, and innovation ability. A continuous improvement mechanism has been established to improve the teaching quality monitoring mechanism and teaching evaluation feedback mechanism, achieve the benign cycle of achieving and continuously improving the training objectives. Currently, the Computer Science and Technology program has passed the Chinese Engineering Education Professional Accreditation. Through comprehensive promotion of engineering education accreditation in various majors, the quality of talent cultivation has been significantly improved.

In the past three years, the students in the school have carried out more than 50 scientific innovation projects at national, provincial, and university levels, won two Jiangsu Province outstanding graduation design team awards and more than 60 prizes in high-level competitions including National College Computer Design Contest, LAN QIAO Cup National Software Design Contest, and National College Student Information Security Contest. Among them, the Network and Information Security team won the first prize in the personal challenge competition of the 13th National Information Security and Countermeasures Contest in 2016, came first in the Web section of the X-NUCA 2016 and earned the title of Best Team, won the first prize in the Jiangsu regional competition and the third prize in the national final of Information Security Triathlon 2018, and the first prize and an individual prize in network security and innovation in the innovation practice competence match of the 12th National College Student Information Security Contest in 2019. In 2022, the team won the first prize of the team competition-student group in the 8th China Digital Forensics Competition "Meiya Cup", and won the first prize of the undergraduate group in the national final of the 4th "Great Wall Cup" Information Security Triathlon in 2023.