Over 60 years of construction and development, serving in Liaoning and facing the whole country, SLU has developed from a single-discipline military and technological school into a multi-disciplinary university with distinctive features of national defense, giving priority to engineering, with combination of science, management, arts, economics, law and art. SLU undertakes the task of cultivating national defense students for Shenyang Military Region. It is also one of the universities approved by the Ministry of Education to recruit high-level football team.
SLU has 19 schools (teaching departments). There are 1,677 teaching staff and faculties, including 1 Double Academician, 398 doctoral, master tutors, 534 professors and associate professors, 29 at the hundred-level of the “Ten Million Talent Project”, national outstanding teachers, State Council Experts for Special Allowance, New Century Excellent Talents from Ministry of Education, members of National Professional Teaching Committee, 63 Provincial Leading Talents, Provincial Outstanding Experts, Provincial Distinguished Professors, Provincial Outstanding Teachers, talents of Provincial University Outstanding Scientific and Technological Personnel Support Plan, Provincial University Outstanding Young Scholars Growth Plan, Provincial hundred-level of the “Ten Million Talent Project”, 4 Liaoning Province Innovation Teams.
SLU has 17,424 full-time students, among whom 15,811 are undergraduate students, 1,315 are PHD students and postgraduates, 1 Doctoral Training Program, 1 Postdoctoral Research Station and 1 Postdoctoral Workstation, 5 National Defense Fields (weapons, information, control, material and mechanics), 12 First-level and 47 Second-level Disciplines for Master Degree Program (including engineering, science, economics, management, arts, law and art), 7 Master-accredited Fields for Engineering and 4 Professional Degree Authorization Sites, 1 State-level Shenyang Sino-Russian Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base, 1 National Key Lab for 863 Plan, 1 Provincial Key Science and Technology Platform, 5 Provincial Key Disciplines, 4 Provincial Characteristic Disciplines, 23 Provincial and Ministerial Level Key Laboratories (Engineering Technology Research Centers).
SLU has 54 undergraduate majors. In the assessment, it was identified by the Ministry of Education as an excellent university of undergraduate teaching in 2007. SLU has 2 State-level National Characteristic specialty Construction Sites, 1 National Professional Comprehensive Pilot Reform Specialty, 16 Provincial Characteristic (Demonstration) Specialties, Pilot Reform Specialties and Key Support Specialties, 6 Provincial Teaching Teams, 1 Ministry of Education Quality Video Class, 13 Provincial Quality Courses, 14 Provincial Video Classes and Quality Resources Sharing Courses. In 2011, SLU was established by the Ministry of Education to carry out the National Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program. It has 1 National Level Outside-school Undergraduate Practice Base, 11 provincial undergraduate Practice Base, Experimental Teaching Centers and Engineering Practice Centers.
Since it was established, the university has always adhered to strengthening morality. With the aim of cultivating high-quality applied talents and the talent training characteristics of “Implementation of Engineering Education, Highlighting the Engineering Practice and Social Practice”, SLU has cultivated many advanced engineering and management personnel. They are greatly welcome in the society. The employment rate of graduates has been ranked forefront of Colleges and Universities in Liaoning Province for years. Since it was established, the university has cultivated over 100,000 specialized personnel.
The university has a number of strong scientific research institutions and technology development bases and a Municipal University Science Park. The state level new products such as bar code, flying saw machine, large-scale crewing bush and Torch Projects have brought about remarkable social and economic benefits. Since the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, SLU has received a total funding of 940 million yuan in science and technology, a total of more than 3200 scientific research projects (1200 projects of national and provincial level). More than 50 scientific research achievements have won national and provincial awards. The number of patent applications in SLU is more than 110 per year. SLU undertakes 195 national and provincial education reform projects and 52 education reform achievements win national and provincial awards.
SLU has established stable cooperation with over 75 universities in 16 countries, such as Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Japan, Finland, etc. Four advanced laboratories have been built with 9 institutes from the National Academy of Sciences of Russia and Belarus. SLU has conducted joint programs with universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Russia and other countries. Confucius Institute and State Level Pushkin Russian Language Center have been established based on the cooperation with Tomsk State University in Russia. SLU is one of Chinese Institutions admitting international students under Chinese government scholarship programs.
SLU adheres to the working principle of “Education-oriented, Innovation, Strengthening characteristics, Improving quality”, fully implements three strategies (Characteristic University, Enhancing university by talents and Open university) and five projects (Teaching Quality, Scientific and Technological Innovation, Discipline Promotion, Teaching Staff Construction, Management System Reform). With the spirit of “Patriotism, Dedication, Self-improvement, Seeking Truth and Pursuit of Excellence” and the motto: “Keep Your Ambition, Advance Your Intellect; Combine High Ability with Moral Integrity”, people in SLU are striving to build it into a high level multidisciplinary coordinated university with distinctive features.
