The School of Electrical and Control Engineering is dated back to the Mining and Electricity Department started in 1958 of Xi'an Jiaotong University. In 1959, the Electrical Department was set up and it grew into independent departments in 1985: Mechanical Department and Electrical Engineering Department. In December of 1994, another department--- Automation became independent from the Electrical Department. Then was formed the Electrical and Control Engineering college in 2002.

The School was approved to grant master's degree in 1984 and now has Control Theory and Control Engineering as the provincial key program, and offers master's degrees in Electric Power Electron and Ttransmission, Control Theory an Control Engineering, Detection Technology and Automation System, and Electrical Engineering. It offers 4 undergraduate programs in Automation, Electrical Engineering and Automation, and Detective Technique and Equipment. It has a student population of 180 master's degree students and 1,406 undergraduates.

The School is composed of 4 departments: Automation, Detection and Control Technology, Electrical Engineering and Electronics, the Rudimentary Specialized Courses Division, Teaching Experimental Center and IC Design and Development Center. The college is staffed by 70 teachers and others: 2 Ph.D candidate supervisor, 5 professors, 25 associate professors, 11 lecturers, 5 senior engineers; and 9 of them are Ph.D holders and 20 of them are master's degree holders.

In recent years, 25 specialized works and textbooks, and 328 papers have been published (36 of these papers have been indexed by EI,ISTP); it obtained 4 teaching awards and 8 academic awards at the provincial or ministerial level, 6 national patents, 50 projects of science and technology, (2 of which are of the national level and 20 of which are of provincial) funded by RMB12.12 million. The School of Electrical and Control Engineering is in a new boom and promises to have a splendid future.

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