Harbin Engineering University (HEU) is located near the Coast of Songhua River in Harbin, a famous city with beautiful scenery in Northeast China.
    HEU is China’s only national “key” university that combines an engineering focus with the science, management, and arts of the shipping industry. With a very strong technical reserve in many research areas on ship engineering and naval engineering, the university has become an important base for scientific research in the areas of national defense, sea and ocean development, and nuclear power application.
    HEU has had the honor of being listed in the national “211 project ” since the initiation of the project. HEU is among only 55 key universities in China that have a graduate school and 43 key universities that have a “National Science Park”.
    The HEU campus covers an area of 1.25 million square meters with a construction area of about 850,000 square meters. The university has 17 colleges or departments and one graduate school. In 1981, HEU became one of the few universities that had the authority to award Master and Doctoral Degrees. Now there are 9 post-doctoral mobile research stations, 27 disciplines conferring doctoral degrees, 76 disciplines conferring master’s degrees (including MBA), and 51 specialties for undergraduates. The teaching and administrative staff numbers almost 2,300, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and one academician of the Chinese Academy of Science. HEU has 185 tutors for doctoral students, more than 800 professors and associate professors, and 25,000 students, with the graduate school edging to 6,000 students.
    HEU puts emphasis on the development of international cooperation and academic exchange. It has made extensive exchange and cooperation efforts with more than 60 influential university and scientific research institutions in 15 countries, such as the United States, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Russia. They exchange visiting scholars and professors, give lectures and conduct joint studies. All of this helps to expand HEU’s influence in the world, promote its teaching, and improve the scientific research level.
    We warmly welcome foreign friends from all over the world to Harbin Engineering University for studying and academic exchanges.




    Sept.1953. The Establishment of the PLA Military Engineering College
    Sept.1955. The College begins to recruit postgraduates.
    Apr.1966. The College changes its name to Harbin Engineering Institute
    Jan.1972. The Institute changes its name to Harbin Shipbuilding Engineering Institute.
    Feb.1978. The Institute is approved to be one of the 88 “key” institutes by the State Council
    March 1978. Seven projects win prizes in National Science Fair
    Nov.1981. The Institute is approved to be one of the few universities that have the authority to award Master and Doctoral Degrees by the State Council in the first batch.
    April 1985. The Institute became one of 45 institutes that accept domestic visiting scholars.
    May 1994. The Institute is renamed Harbin Engineering University.
    June 1994. HEU first participates in the American 10th Mathematical Model Contest and wins the first prize.
    June 1994. Success of the First Comprehensive and Large-Scale Deep Sea Survey of Underwater Acoustical Environment in China presided by Professor Yang Shi’e
    Aug. 1996. HEU becomes an initial number of the ”211 Projects”, allowing it to be one of the universities to be greatly developed by the government during the “ninth five-year” period.
    Dec. 1996. Electrical and Electronic Department becomes one of the first “Teaching Bases of National Science Basic Courses”
    Jan. 1997. The Underwater Acoustics Lab passes national inspection
    Nov. 1997. The measuring ship monitor of the middle-and-long distance sea passes the examination, marking the high level of our research in this area.
    Nov. 1997. Sea trial success of Swath Bathymetry Sonar, making the high level of our research in this area.
    Nov. 1997. The general function index passes the examination of “Sixth Freedom Power Location and Centralized Control and Display System ”
    Dec. 1997. Shipboard Trajectory tracing and Measurement System Wins the second prize of National Advanced Science and Technology Award
    July 1998. Postdoctoral Mobile Station of Shipbuilding Engineering ranks first in China
    Sept. 1998. Beginning of the enrollment of MBA students as one of the Appointed Universities.
    Oct. 1998. Liang Guolong Wins China’s Youth Science and Technology Award
    Dec.1998. Participation in the Development of Submarine Robot without Cable and wins the first prize in the National Advanced Science and Technology Award
    March 1999. Theses of two young teachers are accepted as “National 100 Excellent Doctoral Theses”.
    Jan. 2000. Shipbuilding Technical Design Institute of HEU gains the ISO9000 Authentication, indicating our quality management of Scientific Products is up to the world level.
    July 2000. Successful experiment of “Style III Intelligent Submarine Robot”, which marks a high international level
    April 2002. “Marine Acoustics Engineering”, “Navigation, Guidance and Control”, ”Shipping and Ocean Structure Design” are confirmed as National Key disciplines by the Ministry of Education.
    May 2002. Graduate School is officially ratified by Ministry of Education.
    May 2002. “Intelligent Marine Robot” Lab is recognized as National Key Lab.
    Sept. 2002. “Tenth Five-year” plan and “211 Engineering” construction officially begins.
    Feb. 2003. “Intelligent Marine Robot” Wins second prize of National Technology Improvement Award.
    Sept. 2003. The HEU 50th Anniversary Celebration.
    2004. <<HEU Journal>>Enters EI Retrieve