Teaching Position Application Invitation to Foreign Experts

Welcome to Northeast Dianli University

A Brief Introduction of the University

    Northeast Dianli University (NEDU) is located in Jilin City in the northern part of China with attractive scenery, surrounded by mountains and hills. NEDU is a multidisciplinary university, and the principle majors are engineering specialties, which develop harmoniously with other specialties as science, engineering, management, liberal arts, law, economic and education. NEDU has been searching for the survival by bettering the quality and promoting development by reforms since it was founded. The good school spirit “Diligent, Rigorous, Realistic and Creative” and the personnel cultivation system of laying stress on the characteristics of “Yi Shi Liang Chuang” (Ability of Practice, Sense of Creativeness and Spirit of Doing Pioneering Work) have taken shape. NEDU has achieved rapid progress in various fields and has made great contribution to the State power industry, especially to Northeast power industry and the economy and social development of Jilin province.

    There are 13 postgraduate students for doctor degree and 805 postgraduate students for master degree, 10505 full-time undergraduate, 2639 3-year course students on the campus, 4870 correspondence students, 315 full-time adults’ students and 190 in-service students for Master of Engineering.

    The university became one of the first groups of institutions awarding master degrees, and now thirty two majors award master degree. The university has a right to award a Master Degree to working staff applicants with a diploma equivalent to graduates and working staff can apply for master’s degree since 1998 and it has a right to award a Master Degree of Engineering to working staff applicants in five engineering fields since 2003. The university has a doctoral program jointly operated with Harbin Institute of Technology and North China Electric Power University since 1992. In 2003, the State Council approved that two subjects “Power System and Automation” and “ Thermal Power Engineering” can enroll and cultivate doctor degree candidates by the way of separately planned, jointly operated with well-known universities.

    It presently comprises 18 colleges, departments and 8 research institutes. There are 31 undergraduate majors and 19 3-year course majors, which contains seven disciplines: engineering, science, management, liberal arts, law, economics and education. Among the undergraduate majors, there are 16 engineering majors, 4 science majors, 4 management majors, 4 liberal arts majors, 1 law major, 1 economics major and 1 education major.

    Among 1, 422 staff members, there are 725 teachers including 122 professors, 356 associate professors. There is one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, there are 3 state-level middle aged and young experts with special contributions, 2 state-level first group candidates for “New Century Bai-Qian-Wan Talented Personnel Project”, 43 people who share the Government Special Allowance, 2 province-level outstanding experts, 3 province-level senior experts, 8 province-level middle aged and young experts with special contributions on professional techniques, one person was awarded the title of the first group provincial chief professors, 6 persons were awarded the title of the first group provincial leading professors and middle aged and young backbone teachers and 9 PhD supervisors for doctorate degree candidates.

    The campus covers 80, 8000 square meters including floor space of 485,000 square meters. There are 34 laboratories matched with related subjects, among the laboratories, there are 4 provincial first level laboratories, 4 province-level “Shuang Ji” (basic and professional basic) laboratories, 1 provincial key engineering training center being constructed, 1 provincial key basic experiment teaching center being constructed, 1 the State professional skill training institution, 1 campus teaching practice bases, 3 outside campus teaching practice bases. The library covers 13,000 squares meters, where about 1,253,000 books and 3382 kinds of domestic and oversea periodicals are collected. The university has built a campus network and it is Jilin City Node of CERNET. The permanent assets’ value of the university is 7.7 hundred million Yuan RMB.

     In recent years, the university has undertaken 9 state-level teaching reforms, 40 teaching achievements won state-level, province-level and ministry-level excellent prizes, 6 courses were chosen as province-level elaborate courses of the universities and 31 courses were chosen as province-level and ministry-level excellent courses.

    The University has achieved great success in scientific research. Since the Eighth Five-Year Plan of the country, There have been 5755 academic papers have been published in domestic and oversea academic journals, and approximately 311 academic papers have been accepted by SCI, EI, ISTP. 461 monographs and textbooks have come off the press. The university has undertaken 18 state level scientific research projects, 128 provincial and ministry level scientific research projects. The university has won 2 state level awards for the achievements in scientific research and 72 provincial level and ministry level awards for the scientific research. The department of Scientific Research was awarded the advanced Group for Scientific Research Management in the period of the Eighth Five-Year Plan of the country and the Ninth Five-Year Plan of the country by the State Education Committee and Ministry of Education in 1996 and 2001.

    The source of students remains steady. The university recruits students directly from 28 provinces, municipalities, autonomous region, where it owns good reputation. The characteristics of “Yi Shi Liang Chuang” (Ability of Practice, Sense of Creativeness and Spirit of Doing Pioneering Work) have taken shape during long-term educational development and teaching practice of the university, which won wide praise from the society. Graduates of the university with their solid theory, earnest and diligent style, and courage to overcome hardships and better comprehensive capability have won wide welcome from employers all over the country. Since the founding of the university, more than 50,000 personnel with various professional skills have been trained and sent to all walks of the life in the country. 7 persons have become provincial level and ministry level heads and leaders, and many people have become famous experts, scholars, heads of large and medium scale state-owned enterprises and social know persons.

    The university has conducted academic exchange and cooperation in scientific research with related colleges and universities or scientific research institutions in United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Russia, Republic of Korea, Germany, Ukraine, Canada, and Bulgaria. Since 1998, the university started to enroll foreign students in all subjects. In 2001, approved by the Office of Academic Degree of the State Council, the university began an undergraduate degree program of two majors—Business Management and Business Information System with Utah State University. Since the “The Ninth Five-Year Plan of the Country”, the university invited 70 foreign teachers to teach and give speeches, and sent 271 persons abroad to visit, inspect, study, and attend international academic conferences.

    Looking forward to the future, with full confidence, the whole staff of Northeast Dianli University is making great efforts to develop the school into a university well-known in the country, of the first class level in the province and with its own distinctive characteristics.

Foreign Experts Contract Terms:

Vacancy: 2 positions
Gender: male or female
Teacher or Expert: teachers, experts
Nationality: USA, UK, Canada, Australia,
Education: at least bachelor’s degree.
Work experience: more than 2 years
Contract time: one year
Language: English
Age: younger than 65
Courses: reading, writing, literature, conversation and others
Workload: no more than 16 hours per week
Monthly salary (RMB): 3000-4,500
Air fare (RMB): single or round trip ( dependent upon the degrees and working experiences)
Annual vacation allowance (RMB): 2,200
Free boarding: apartment
Boarding place: at campus
Place of position (city): Jilin City
Place of position (province): Jilin Province
Time to teach: September, 2006
Contact person: Li Hongqing
Tel: +86-0432-4806458
Fax: +86-0432-4884186
E-mail: dic@mail.nedu.edu.cn
Website: http://www.nedu.edu.cn
Address: Department of International Cooperation
Northeast Dianli University
No.169, Changchun Road, Jilin city, Jilin Province, China