Chengdu University of Information Technology

Not to be confused with Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu University of Science and Technology, or Chengdu University.
Chengdu University of Information Technology
成都信息工程大学
Motto成于大气，信达天下
TypePublic
Established1951
PresidentHe Jianxin (何建新)
Academic staff
1,600
Students25,000
Location
Chengdu
,
Sichuan
,
China
Websiteenglish.cuit.edu.cn
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese成都信息工程大学
Traditional Chinese成都信息工程大學
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChéngdū Xìnxī Gōngchéng Dàxué
Main entrance of CUIT airport campus

The Chengdu University of Information Technology (CUIT, 成都信息工程大学), formerly the Chengdu Meteorological College (成都气象学院), is a provincial public university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The university is affiliated with the Province of Sichuan, and co-sponsored by the China Meteorological Administration and the Sichuan Provincial Government.[1]

CUIT is a leading university in the scientific research and technological application of the interdisciplinary integration of atmospheric science and information technology, and a member of the CDIO Initiative world organization.[2] Since 2004, CUIT has begun educating reserve army officers for the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force, the strategic and tactical missile forces of the People's Republic of China.[1]

In recent years, CUIT has been granted 123 state-level scientific research projects including National Science and Technology Plan, National Natural Science Fund projects, and National Social Science Fund projects, obtaining science and technology funds about 58.2 million RMB annually; 46 provincial and ministerial science awards, two of which are National Science and Technology Progress Awards (second class); 3315 academic papers have been published, with 910 articles cited by the important retrieval system SCI, and over 100 articles on influential journals from both in and abroad.[3]

CUIT has eight key provincial and ministerial laboratories (including Sichuan Engineering and Technological Research Center, Sichuan key Research Bases for Philosophy and Social Sciences), seven key laboratories supervised by universities and Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences, and one post-doctoral research station. CUIT has reached advanced world standards in the research of a new-type weather radar system, China Doppler weather radar of a new generation, atmospheric radiation and satellite remote sensing, weather dynamics and dry monsoon, environmental system analysis and environmental monitoring & evaluation, computer and software, information security, and E-commerce.[3]

  1. ^ a b CUIT Introduce - Ministry of National Defense of P.R.China
  2. ^ General information in university official website Archived October 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b "学校简介". www.cuit.edu.cn. Retrieved 2017-06-04.