 East China Shipbuilding Institute
(ECSI), located in the famous historical and cultural city – Zhenjiang,
Jiangsu, China, is a comprehensive Engineering University. ECSI originated
from the Shanghai Shipbuilding Polytechnic School that was founded in
the autumn of 1953 and moved to Zhenjiang in 1970. After approval by
the State Council, the school became the Zhenjiang Shipbuilding Institute
in 1978 and was renamed East China Shipbuilding Institute in 1992. In
1993 when ECSI celebrated its 40 anniversary, Jiang Zemin, the Chairman
of CPC and the President of PRC, inscribed the university name.
With twenty years rapid development and following
the overall trend to high technology in the shipbuilding industry, ECS
 I now is offering a multi-level higher
education system to undergraduates, graduates, doctors and adults through
a continuous education program. Consolidating on its original major
disciplines of Engineering, ECSI has also continued to update and widen
the scope of its research fields. Now a new pattern for the coordinated
multi-discipline development of modern engineering, economics and management
has emerged. At present, ECSI consists of eight departments, Naval and
Civil Architecture, Mechanics, Electronics and Information, Management
Engineering, Welding and Materials Engineering, General Courses, Foreign
Language and Sociology. In addition, there are Schools in Adult Education,
Continuous Education for Shipbuilding Engineers and a Training Center
for Foreign Technicians. Currently there is one doctorate program, 10
masters programs and 23 undergraduate programs, 6 professional programs
and 11 senior professional training programs at the institute. There
are a set of comprehensive subjects: shipbuilding, machinery, electronics,
energy, construction, environment, biology, foreign languages, economy
and management as well as a multi-function educational system oriented
to all academic programs.
 There are 1400 faculty and staff at
ECSI, including 80 Professors and 300 Associate Professors and Senior
Engineers. There are about 11,000 students, of whom 7,000 are full-time
undergraduates, 2,300 are adult students, 1,585 senior vocational and
technical college's students and 144 graduate students. In its history,
ECSI has trained over 21,000 individuals, who have become high-level
engineers, technicians and managers. ECSI has contributed to the shipbuilding
industr  y of China and the economic development
of local regions. ECSI has also trained 238 foreign technicians who
repair and maintain ships in their own countries.
The area of ECSI is 1,645mu (1mu = approx. 667 sq.
m) with a building floor space of 0.32 million square meters. There
are 22 different laboratories with over 10,312 pieces of experimental
equipment, including 2 key provincial laboratories, the laboratory of
high-efficiency welding and Marine Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Technology. The library now contains over 866,500 volumes. ECSI has
also set up large teaching, research, and experimental bases such as
the Computer Center and the Audio-Video Center.
In order to stay close to the shipyards and research
institutes, the ECSI Board was founded in October 1994. The board is
a combined organization for discussing, advising, supervising and supporting
matters on the continual reformation and development of ECSI. There
are currently 70 members on the board, mainly from large and medium-size
shipyards in China.
 ECSI has been successful in making
connections with universities and educational institutions in the U.S.A,
Australia, Japan, Ukraine, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Foreign experts
are warmly welcomed at come to ECSI to co-operate on research programs
and provide technical advice.
 The aim of ECSI is to foster practical
talents with an openmind. ECSI has endeavored to provide a curriculum
to enable students to meet the needs of shipyards, giving them a wide
range of basic knowledge with an emphasis on application, so as to enhance
graduates’ abilities for their future work. Courses are arranged
to fulfill the goals listed above: Experiments are stressed to strengthen
students' perceptual knowledge, increasing their fundamental skills
in analyzing and solving real problems in manufacturing. Graduates from
ECSI have been welcomed and appreciated in shipyards around the world
because of their loyalty to the career of shipbuilding, their continuous
enterprising spirit, and their down-to-earth style of work.
ECSI is very confident about its future and its ability
to meet the needs of the people of China and the world in the new millenium.
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