National Pilot School of Software, Yunnan University

History

Founded in April 2002, the National Pilot School of Software is one of 35 such schools across China.

Goals

The school aims to cultivate high-level engineering-oriented talents with international competitiveness through applying an international education mode. It carries out talent cultivation by integrating teaching, practice and R&D.

Majors

The school has four key undergraduate programs -- software engineering, digital media technology, network engineering and information security.

The school is authorized to award the first level of master's degree in systematic engineering and software engineering and the first level professional master's program in software engineering.

The school is also nationally accredited to offer a doctoral degree program in systems analysis and integration.

Faculty

The school now has 55 full-time and 79 part-time teachers, 17 of whom have high-grade professional titles, four are doctoral supervisors, 16 have PhDs and four are full-time foreign teachers.

Two of the full-time teachers are members of the Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education, one receives a special allowance from the State Council, one is recognized as an expert who has made outstanding contributions to Yunnan province, two are leaders of the Yunnan academy for technology among early and mid-career people, one is a noted talent of technology innovation in the province, two have been named outstanding teachers of Yunnan province, one was among Yunnan's first group under the Hundred Talents Program and one has been awarded as one of the Top 10 Best Teachers of the school.

The school has more than 10 teachers who are members of various expert committees in the city of Kunming, Yunnan province, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education.

Research

The National Pilot of Software is home to a number of national organizations, including the National Software Talents International Training Base (Kunming), the National Linux Technology Training and Promotion Center, the Yunnan branch of the China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, and the National Pilot Zone for Software Talents Cultivation Reform and Innovation.

The school is also home to a Yunnan Province Key Laboratory, the Yunnan Cloud Computing Engineering Research Center, the Yunnan E-Government R&D Center, the Yunnan Experimental Teaching Demonstrative Center, and the Kunming Informatization Development Research Institute.

The school’s network engineering is a national-level special program and its software engineering is a provincial key program.

The school is building a good research and education environment for talent training with a social service system combining research and development and services.

Internationalization  

The National Pilot of Software has extensive cooperation with worldwide universities, ranging from the UK's De Montfort University, the US's Michigan State University, Polytechnic University and California State University, San Bernardino, Australia's Monash University to India's Pune University, in fields of course introduction, teacher training, student and teacher exchanges, and joint research.

The school has also developed many partnerships with corporations, such as US companies IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, BEA, and Intel, and India's Xansa, to work on course development, lab construction, teacher training and internship bases.