DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY
Dalian Maritime University (DMU), the sole key university
under the administration of the Ministry of Communications, is a renowned
higher learning institution of navigation in the People’s Republic of
China, and one of the few institutions of maritime education acknowledged
by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to enjoy an international
prestige.
DMU has a rich history of development, which can trace back to the Shipping
Affairs Department of Shanghai Industrial Institute (also named the South
Sea Public School), set up by the ministry of the Post and Communications
in the Qing Dynasty in 1909. In 1953, Dalian Marine college was established
through the amalgamation of Shanghai Nautical College, Northeast Navigation
College an Fujian Navigation College, thus emerging as the only higher
learning institution of navigation of the time. In 1960, it was proclaimed
a national key university. In 1983 the Asia-pacific Region Maritime Training
Center was established by the UNDP and IMO, and in 1985, the Dalian Branch
of the World Maritime University was opened here. In 1994 Dalian Marine
College was renamed Dalian Maritime University, and Chinese President
Jiang Zemin gave his approval of the new name of the institution. From
1997 onward, DMU began Project 211. In 1998, DMU passed the Quality System
Accreditation of China’s National Harbor Superintendence and DNV. DMU
is now a leader among the higher learning institutions of navigation worldwide
as to the scale and stale and status of academic studies and research.
DMU located in the southwest part of the coastal city of Dalian in Northeast
China. DMU’s campus covers 0.9 square kilometers, the buildings cover
approximately 0.44sq. km.. It is equipped with the a computing center,
an audio-visual teaching center, a navigation training and research center,
a library, a natatorium, a planetarium, a simulated navigation laboratory,
a simulated marine engineering laboratory, over 40 laboratories for teaching
and research purposes, and 2 vessels of 10,000 tonnage to facilitate teaching.
DMU consists of 12 colleges and 4 departments. The colleges include
Navigation, Marine Engineering, Transportation & Logistics, Information
Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Law, Business, Humanity
and Social Science, Environmental Science and Engineering, Automation
and Electrical Engineering, International Cooperation and Adult Education.
The departments include Foreign Language, Mathematics and Physics, Physical
Education and Postgraduate Study. DMU now offers 25 specialties for undergraduates,
24 specialties for master degree candidates, and 9 specialty of national
secondary priority for doctorate students, and a post-doctorate mobile
research center. The total number of fully registered students now reaches
almost 13,000. Science the amalgamation in 1953, DMU has trained over
40,000 highly competent personnel, the majority of whom have become the
backbone of the navigation sector. In addition, DMU has trained more than
2,000 overseas students and personnel from over 30 countries and regions.
DMU has a teaching staff of excellent quality, well distributed across
a range of disciplines, with over 150 professors and a large team of promising
young lectures. The academic research capacity of the staff is powerful
and research projects center on marine transportation engineering, navigational
information technology, marine intelligence programming, marine power
system and energy-saving technology, marine mechanical maintenance engineering,
communication information systems, marine environmental protection, and
maritime law, thus forms a galaxy of celebrated experts, scholars with
profound theories and research competence, and a large group of young
researchers with progressive and innovation ideas.
DMU attaches much importance to inter-institutional and international
exchange and cooperation. Since China’s reform and opening up in late
1970s, It has officially established cooperative relations with over 20
world-famous navigational learning institutions in Japan, Korea, the United
Kingdoms, Australia, Vietnam, Sweden, Russia, USA and Egypt, and has been
cooperating closely in real terms with them in such fields as joint educational
programs, exchange of visiting scholars and students, and joint academic
research projects, and these areas of cooperative relationship with many
international organization, such as IMO, IAMU, AMETRAP, IMLA, APEC, ISF,
IACS and some internationally renowned companies.
DMU’s great achievements and its prestige both at home and aboard have
been spoken highly of by China’s state leaders. In 1993, on August 22nd
and October 20th respectively, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and State
Council Vice-Premier Li Lanqing visited DMU. President Jiang Zemin was
delighted at DMU’s rapid progress and encouraged as following:
“Be Steadfast, Vigorous, Industrious and Pioneering; Build Dalian Maritime
University into a world-renowned one!”
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