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School of Internet of Things Engineering


School of Internet of Things Engineering (IOT Engineering) is incorporated by School of Communications and Control Engineering and School of Information Engineering, featured with comprehensive and interdispline advantage of information with electric engineering.

The school possesses one post-doctoral program center (Control Science and Engineering), two doctoral programs (Control Theory and Control Engineering; Light Industry Information Technology and Engineering), two key master programs (Control Science and Engineering which includes the following five sub-disciplinary master programs: Control Theory and Control Engineering, Testing Technology and Automation Devices, System Engineering, Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System, and Navigation Guidance and Control; Computer Science and Technology including the following three sub-master programs: Computer Application Technology, Computer Software and Theory, and Computer Structure); and five other sub-master programs (Power Electronics and Power Transmission, Signal and Information Processing, Microelectronics and Solid Electronics, Electric Machine and Electrical Appliance, Printing Engineering and Media Technology) as well as five engineering master programs (Control Engineering, Computer Technology, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, and Integrated Circuit Engineering). Among them, Control Theory and Control Engineering is awarded as key discipline of Jiangsu Province in the "Eleventh Five-Year Program".

There are eight undergraduate majors: Automation, Computer Science and Technology, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Microelectronics, Electronics and Information Engineering, Communication Engineering, Information Security Engineering, and Printing Engineering, of which the major of Automation is awarded as national special major; Computer Science and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Automation are awarded as special majors in Jiangsu Province. Besides the school owns a key laboratory of the National Ministry of Education renowned for “Advanced Control in the process of Light Industry”. The school now has more than 3,000 undergraduate students and more than 700 Ph.D candidates and master candidates; every year about 800 full-time undergraduates and ful-time 260 Ph.D and master candidates are recruited.

School of IOT Engineering ie staffed with high qualified faculty and reasonable echelon structure: 1 Changjiang scholar, 23 professors (of whom 12 doctoral supervisors) and 61 associate professors. 35%of faculty are awarded doctoral degrees and one of them is honored national outstanding teacher; five of them New Century Excellent Talents by Ministry of Education; two honored special government allowances; several teachers entitled "333" Engineering Talents and "Blue Project" key teachers in Jiangsu Province. Teachers in School of IOT Engineering blaze new trails in pioneering spirits and forge ahead with determination, integrating the advantages of the school and the region. They undertake more than 100 research programs such as National 863 Program, National Natural Science Fund, National Programs for Science and Technology Development, and provincial and ministerial research programs. The honors and awards about provincial and ministerial scientific researches totals more than 50 ones. As for annual research funds it exceeds RMB30 million. More than 300 dissertations are published in SCI, EI, ISPP every year and many nation-advanced and valuable results have been achieved, some of which even have reached international advanced level, resulting in abundant social and economic efficiency.

With the goal of serving for the development of Light Industry and local economy and oriented towards the market, the school is making efforts to cultivate innovative personnel with high quality in the field of light industry, such as light industry and chemical technology, biological fermentation, food industry and the Internet of Things industry. At present, there is the electrical and electronic experimental demonstration teaching centre sponsored by Jiangsu Province, the key laboratory of energy saving and controlling technique for industrial equipments of Wuxi city, the Internet of Things demonstration center of Wuxi, the creative base for practice of students from Jiangnan University majoring in electrical and information, and many corporate-joint built laboratories in the school. Besides, the school has been cooperating with many well-known enterprises, and has established a variety of scholarships and grants to encourage students to participate in technological innovations. And her first-class teaching resources and research conditions fully insure personnel cultivation and scientific research. Her students have won prizes in many extracurricular scientific contests such as, “Challenge Cup” match for national university students, mathematical modeling, electronic and robot design contest, ACM programming contest, smart car design contest and process control simulation challenge contest, etc. Some student got the first prize in the internet knowledge competition for university students in Jiangsu Province and some have won the national firt prizes in the national mathematical modeling contest for times, for instance, the highest prize in that contest in 2006 – “Higher Education Cup”. The school has made policies of “recommended students by interviewing test for master degree” and “outstanding postgraduate students for Ph.D in advance”. There are approximately 70 undergraduate students having been recommended to pursue their master degree in the following universities: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, South-east China University, etc. and Jiangnan university. Apart from that, the school has set forth exchange programs with relevant foreign institutions.

As is well known to all, Wuxi is the center of the “Sensing China” of the Internet of Things approved by the State Council, meanwhile, is the demonstration center of the innovation of the national Internet of Things. And the wireless networking of the Internet of Things is the most competitive industry which has a large demand for personnel with relevant professional and technological knowledge. The Students cultivated by the school have bright l prospects and potential for professional development and employment since they possess a solid speciality foundation, a broad spectrum of knowledge and high adaptive capacity.

Majors for bachelor’s degree of the school are as follows:
Automation--- automation of industrial electrical equipment and production process.
(National Construction Model Base): The aim of this major is to enable students to have a good command of professional knowledge of fields, such as, theories and techniques of electronic and automatic control and computer application, etc. Students will be accessed to their speciality so that they will become advanced engineering and technical personnel able to engage in the design, analysis and operation of systems.

Main courses: Circuit Theory, Electronics, Automatic Control Theory, Theory and Application of Computers, Theory of Electric Machinery and Power Drag, Motion Control Systems, Process Control Systems, etc..

Employment opportunities: education and research work of design and development of automation products and the maintenance of systems in enterprises, institutions, research institutions, colleges and universiyies, etc.

Computer Science & Technology (Specialty Construction Model Base of Jiangsu Province): It is a specialty with wide coverage for computer applications and combination of hardware and software, focusing on computer science and technology, systems and software, network and information security, etc.

Main courses: Computer Networks, Principles of Computer Composition, Computer Graphics, Programming, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Digital Circuits & Digital Systems, Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures, Principles of Database Systems, Compiler Theory, etc.

Employment opportunities: Design and R & D of computer systems and networks, software development and project management, network information security and teaching in businesses, enterprises, research institutionss, financial and taxation agencies, universities and other relevant fields.
Electrical Engineering and Automation (Specialty Construction Model Base of Jiangsu Province): The specialty mainly trains senior professionals in electrical engineering and its control, with a broader knowledge of electrical engineering, electrical equipment and control techniques, etc.

Main courses: Theory of Circuitry, Technology of Electronics, Computer Principles & Application, Electrical Machinery, Electrical Technology, etc.

Employment opportunities: Design and R & D of power systems, project planning and management, electrical equipment maintenance or teaching in power company, electric power design institute and related professional institutions.
Electronic and Information Engineering: The goal of the specialty is to enable students to master the expertise of electronics technology, communications technology, signal processing technology and computer technology so as to be the compound technical talents with broad knowledge both on electrical engineering and computer engineering. Students will receive a comprehensive training of key theories and basic skills, principles of hardware and software technology in various disciplines.

Main courses: Theory of Circuitry, Signals and Systems, Technology of Electronics, Communication Theory, Analysis and Design of Information Systems, etc.

Employment opportunities: Design and application development of electronic equipments and information systems, technology management and teaching and research work, etc. in information industry, education, finance, telecommunications, computer enterprises, the field of electronic information, sectors of national economy and national defense industry.
Microelectronics: The specialty aims to foster full-development design talents in morality, intellectence and physical building, with a good command of design and manufacturing process of large-scale integrated circuits and other new semiconductor devices. Students will be familiar with electronic and computer technology, and develop a capacity of scientific research and practical work.

Main courses: Mathematical Analysis, Solid Physics, Semiconductor Physics, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Integrated Circuit Technology, Digital Integrated Circuit Design, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Electronic Circuit CAD, Experiment of Microelectronics and Internship of Integrated Circuit Technology.

Employment opportunities: Research and development in IC manufacturers, IC design centers, and the fields of communications, computer and information science and technology.

Communications Engineering (Focus upon Internet of Things): Based on a wide scope of the profession, this major trains students to be equipped with a solid theoretical foundation, systemic professional knowledge and strong practical skills in fields of electronics technology, computer technology, communications technology and the Internet of things engineering, etc. and enables students to acquire skills in relevant areas in scientific research, technological development, product design and professional teaching. Major focus is on mobile communication, optical communication and Internet of Things Engineering.

Main Courses: Theory of Electrical Circuits, Electronic Technology, Principles of Communication, Signals and Systems, Information and Communication Engineering, Embedded Systems, Integrated Circuit Design, Sensor Theory, etc.

Employment opportunities: Communications and electronics, information, Internet of Things and other industries , work of research, design, development, operations and technology management of communications equipment, systems and network.

Information Security: The major is to cultivate the senior technical personnel engaged in the research, application, management of information security in the fields of computer, electronic commerce technology, electronic finance, e-government, military. Special attention is paid to enabling the students to master the basic knowledge of information security theory and integrated application methods, and a strong ability of innovative applications. The graduates can undertake research, application and management in the field of information security.

Main Courses: Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures, Digital Communication Theory, Information Hiding and Attack, Computer Network, Internet Security, etc.

Employment opportunities: The graduates can offer their services in enterprises, government agencies and institutions involved in information security, such as the technology security maintenance departments of Telecom and Netcom, various important government departments and colleges and universities, etc. to engage in network security monitoring, information supervising, website management and maintenance, software design and development as well as teaching and research etc.

Printing Engineering: This major is to cultivate the senior specialists mastering technologies of color plating, digital printing and laser Anti-counterfeit printing.

Main Courses: Plating Engineering Optics, Printing in Color Science, Layout Design and Art, Color Desktop Publishing Technology, Printing Technology and Quality Control, Packaging Anti-counterfeit Pringting, Package Printing Equipment and Electrics, Electronic Publishing and Network Technologies, etc.

Employment opportunities: Newspaper offices, publishing houses, plating making and printing companies, decoration advertising companies, research institutes and departments of foreign trade, commodity inspection, etc. engaged in the printing process design and technical management.

The school follows the policies of “recommending excellent undergraduates for master degree immune from admission examination” and “outstanding masters persuing for Ph.D in advance”, etc. In addition, the school has established close relations of academic exchanges and collaboration with universities and academic institutions in United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, Belgium, New Zealand and other countriesin training of overseas students, and has established thecooperation programs of the “3+1” undergraduate project with Ireland Athlone Institute of Technology, as well as the “2+2” undergraduate project with Monash University of Australia.