Professional profile

Automation industry is characterized by high scientific and technological content, fast development, strong supporting ability, wide application fields and good economic benefits. The automation industry is one of the pillar industries of the national economy and one of the key industries in Guangdong Province. The demand for automation professionals is huge, and a large number of technical and skilled talents are needed.

Automation major is based on automatic control theory as the main theoretical basis, electronic technology, computer technology, sensor and detection technology as the main technical means, the implementation of automatic control of various automation devices and systems, computer hardware and software combination, mechanical and electronic combination, component and system combination, operation and manufacturing combination. Set control science and technology, computer science and technology, electronics and communication technology, electrical engineering, information and system science related engineering and technology and other disciplines in one, multi-disciplinary integration of the wide caliber professional.

The automation industry has formed the most competitive strategic industry in the world today. The automation industry chain mainly includes three areas: first, intelligent manufacturing; Second, the transportation industry; And the petrochemical industry. It basically covers all fields of the secondary industry. The professional positions (groups) of automation graduates are mainly automation product (system) design engineers, software development engineers, production line site management and technical engineers, production and manufacturing process engineers, product testing and quality management engineers, project management engineers, and also engaged in product sales engineers and technical service engineers.

Training objectives

This major is mainly aimed at Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and aims to cultivate all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, the United States and labor, with national feelings, healthy personality, international vision, craftsman spirit and innovation ability, master the basic theories and professional skills of automation, have a certain degree of automation system and product design, development and integration capabilities and good comprehensive quality. Proficient in automatic testing technology, automatic control technology, computer measurement and control technology, with strong capabilities in automation system and product testing, operation and after-sales service. Capable of engineering design, technology development, system operation and maintenance management, product sales and technical service in the fields of motion control, process control, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent control and other technical fields.

Knowledge and ability

1. Engineering knowledge ability: Be able to apply advanced mathematics, engineering mathematics, university physics, subject basis of automation, professional basis and professional knowledge to solve practical engineering problems in the field of automation technology.

2.Problem analysis ability: able to apply the basic principles of advanced mathematics, engineering mathematics, college physics and automation and their related sciences to identify, express and analyze practical engineering problems in the field of automation technology through literature research, so as to obtain effective conclusions on corresponding practical engineering problems.

3. Design/development solution ability: able to propose design plans for the development needs of actual automation systems and products, design automation systems and products, measurement and control units or measurement and control processes that meet specific functions and parameters, and be able to reflect innovative design thinking in the design process, taking into account social, health, safety, legal, cultural and environmental factors.

4, research ability: based on the scientific principles related to automation, the use of scientific methods to study the actual engineering problems in the field of automation technology, including the design of scientific and reasonable experimental schemes, analysis and interpretation of the obtained data, and through the information synthesis method to obtain reasonable and effective scientific research conclusions.

5. Ability to use modern tools: to develop, select and use appropriate technologies, resources, automation system application and development tools and information technology tools for practical engineering problems in the field of automation technology, including the prediction and simulation of the functions, parameters and indicators of actual automation systems and products, and to understand the actual limitations of such tools.

6. Engineering and social ability: based on the background knowledge of automation and related reasonable analysis, evaluation of the automation field engineering practice and actual automation system and product design and development on the social, health, safety, legal and cultural impact, and clear responsibility should betaken.

7. Environmental and sustainable development ability: able to understand and evaluate the impact of engineering practice activities aimed at the design and development of actual automation systems and products on the real environment and social sustainable development, with good environmental awareness.

8. Professional literacy ability: have a good humanities and social science literacy, social responsibility, noble professional ethics and professionalism, in the practice of automation engineering to understand and abide by the automation and related industry professional norms, develop a good professional ethics.

9. Individual and team ability: in the background of multidisciplinary cooperation in the team, with project cooperation and participation in management ability, with team spirit, able to coordinate and cooperate with other members and promote the achievement of team cooperation goals.

10. Communication skills: able to effectively communicate and exchange with industry peers and the public on practical engineering problems in the field of automation technology, use language and information technology tools to improve work level, with a certain international vision and international communication and cooperation ability.

11. Project management ability: able to apply the basic principles of engineering management and economic decision-making methods in automation project management, with the basic ability of project management and cost awareness.

12. Lifelong learning ability: with independent learning and lifelong learning awareness, with the ability to continue to learn and adapt to development.

Automation professional features

This major connects with the industries of the Greater Bay Area, follows the OBE concept of student-centered, output-oriented and continuous improvement, and closely follows the needs of the industry to build talent training programs and curriculum systems.

■ The employment situation is good, a large number of enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region are facing the automatic upgrading of equipment, and the talent demand gap is huge.

■ Reasonable knowledge structure. School and enterprise seamless docking, personnel training closely follow the upgrading of production enterprises, close to the actual production of enterprises.

■ Flexible employment methods. With 25 enterprises to build a collaborative education base, to build awide range of employment Bridges.

■ High employment rate. Pay attention to application ability and practical operation training, graduates have strong practical ability, the employment rate of graduates in the past five years is more than 95%, professional matching rate of more than 92%.

Core courses for Majors

Basic Circuit analysis, analog electronic technology, Digital Electronic technology, Principle of

automatic control, C language programming, Principle and application of single chip microcomputer, power electronics technology, Sensor application and detection technology, programmable controller, automatic control system of electric drive.

Practical teaching

Concentrated practice teaching: electronic process practice B, metalworking practice A, electrical practice, electronic circuit course design, single-chip microcomputer principle and application course design,electrical control and PLC integrated design, switching power supply design course design.

Enterprise practice teaching projects: online self-learning expansion module course, professional morality education, region, industry, enterprise research (3 options 1), production practice, graduation practice, graduation design.

Teaching conditions

After years of construction and continuous updating and upgrading, the practical teaching conditions of automation major have fully covered all course experiments of this major, and the experiment rate is 100%. The laboratories mainly include: Electrical and electronic basic laboratory, automation laboratory, microprocessor laboratory, constant pressure water supply laboratory and intelligent building laboratory and other professional laboratories, equipment investment of more than 10 million yuan, covering an area of more than 1500 square meters; It has also built more than 30 practice bases with enterprises, which can accommodate more than 150 students for practice at one time.

Employment Prospects

Graduates can be engaged in motion control, process control, manufacturing system automation, automation instrumentation and equipment, robot control, intelligent monitoring system, intelligent transportation, intelligent building and other engineering applications in engineering design, technology development, system operation and maintenance, production management, product sales and technical services and other positions.

Teaching staff

Our school has a long history of automation major, with a moderate scale, reasonable structure, complete gradient, noble ethics, excellent quality of high-level teachers. There are 15 full-time teachers, including 3 teachers with senior professional titles and 8 associate senior teachers; 5 have doctor's degree; Dual teachers accounted for 40.6%. At the same time, according to the

reform of the talent training mode of 3+1 school-enterprise cooperative education, more than 11 enterprise tutors were hired to undertake the teaching guidance of professional practice. The professional teachers have a reasonable learning structure, undertaken and completed more than 10 provincial and ministerial level teaching and research projects, and obtained more than 20 inventions and utility model majors, with rich theoretical and practical teaching experience.