

Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology was established in December 1997 under the proposal of Goh Chok Tong, the former prime minister of Singapore, and approved by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, in order to meet the demand for highly skilled personnel in the development and construction of suzhou Industrial Park and better serve the foreign-funded enterprises in the park. After the establishment of the institute, the leaders of the Chinese and Singaporean governments visited the institute for many times and expressed their recognition of its achievements. The new dushu Lake campus was officially opened in September 2010. The original three campuses were merged. The new campus is located in No.1 Ruoshui Road, Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation Zone, Suzhou Industrial Park, adjacent to nanotechnology Park, Creative Industry Park, and more than ten famous universities and research institutes at home and abroad. It provides rich industrial resources, scientific research resources, broad employment space and entrepreneurial platform for students' innovation and development.
The institute is the only national demonstration higher vocational institute among the 17 higher vocational institutes in Suzhou. It is now the National Advanced Unit of Vocational Education, the National Demonstration institute of Employment Competitiveness of Vocational institutes, the National Charming Campus of Vocational institutes, the Advanced Unit of Teaching work in Jiangsu Province, and the Advanced institute of International Cooperation and Exchange in Education in Jiangsu Province. It has been awarded the title of "Advanced Collective of Employment of institute graduates in Jiangsu Province" by the provincial Department of Education for many times, and its educational strength is in the forefront of the province. In the past 20 years, the institute has actively learned from the advanced vocational education experience of Singapore, Germany and other developed countries, and formed a institute-running style characterized by a joint-stock institute-running system, deep institute-enterprise cooperation and an international institute-running vision.
The institute has improved its corporate governance structure and deepened its shareholding system. Established by suzhou guanghua investment management co., LTD., JiLinGuang HuaKong investment group co., LTD, suzhou boiling point education consultation management company, xiangyu education group, Bosch automotive parts (suzhou) co., LTD, suzhou samsung display co., LTD., Emerson environmental technology (suzhou) co., LTD., renesas semiconductor (suzhou) co., LTD., with cheng network technology co The board of directors composed of famous multinational companies at home and abroad and famous universities at home and abroad shall implement the "dean responsibility system under the leadership of the board of directors". There are 21 directors from the United States, Germany, Finland, Belgium, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries, accounting for 70% of the directors, and 16 directors from multinational enterprises, accounting for 53% of the directors. The composition structure and operation mechanism of the "dean responsibility system" under the leadership of the board of Directors integrates the resources of both the enterprise and the institute, provides strong support for the development of the institute in terms of funds and specialties, and plays a constructive role in optimizing the development strategy of the institute. Director unit plays a participate in function to the development of institute, and participate in the institute specialty construction, curriculum, teachers' selection, training room construction, setting the scholarship and research grants, student field work and other work link, in addition, also places and opportunities for institute teachers to provide access to engineers, greatly promote the institute institute of "enterprise +" double main body the formation of personnel training mode.
Adhering to the pro-business philosophy and win-win principle, the institute carries out in-depth cooperation with enterprises. In the process of running the institute, the "pro-business philosophy" in the field of public management in Singapore was introduced and clearly defined as "pro-enterprise philosophy". In the past 20 years, the institute has formed a variety of institute-enterprise cooperation modes. Six institute-enterprise cooperation modes have been explored: "BOSCH mode -- order cultivation", "CHARMILLES mode -- Right of use sharing", "SAMSUNG mode -- enterprise university", "same-journey mode -- Teaching factory", "PHILIPS mode -- Joint laboratory", and "AMD mode -- Visiting Engineer". Through these cooperation, the institute has established cooperative relations with 1,100 enterprises and established more than 300 off-campus internship bases. The two sides have achieved consistent goals, consistent standards and whole-process cooperation, and gradually formed the institute-enterprise "dual subject" talent training mode.
The institute adheres to the practice of "three modernization", firmly establishes the concept of "human resource is the first resource", vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the university with talents, and plans such as "visiting engineer" training, "full overseas project system" training, "overseas recruitment", "university and enterprise lecturer and engineer exchange". It has created a professional teaching team with a reasonable number and structure with the background of "engineering, professionalism and internationalization", and the overall level of the teachers has been continuously improved. institute has 1 national teaching masters, the national "ten thousand project" 1, 3 provincial teaching masters, in jiangsu province "333" 7 third level talent training objects, "blue project" in jiangsu province to develop a target of 21 1, provincial excellent teaching team, suzhou jinji lake "double hundred" talents with high skill talented person and suzhou 23 people.
The institute, adhering to the "international vocational education concept, indigenous innovation practice, regional results share" ideas of running institute, actively carry out chinese-foreign cooperation in running institutes, to carry out various forms of international cooperation and exchanges, walked out of a unique development path of internationalization, reveals institute international vocational education concept of breath, and continuously explore innovative vigor. Over the years, the institute has established close cooperative relations with universities and educational institutions of various countries, including cooperative education, international specialized courses, international internship, selection and training, exchange visits and international skills competition.
The institute now has more than 8000 students and 300 faculty members. Up to now, the institute has applied and accepted 1012 patents, including 145 invention patents, 209 new utility patents and 2 Copyrights authorized by the State Intellectual Property Office.
The institute has a building area of nearly 230,000 square meters, teaching and experimental equipment of about 80 million yuan, and about 8,000 students of all kinds. Now with nine teaching department, such as mechanical and electrical engineering department, has been set up and maintenance of electromechanical integration technology, automobile application technology, such as the shortage of 45, professional institute has built seven national key specialty, 7 provincial characteristic specialty, four provincial key construction group (18), a provincial brand specialty, five provincial backbone, suzhou new professional 2, Total 23 key (brand, characteristic) majors.
The institute adheres to the practice of "three modernization", firmly establishes the concept of "human resource is the first resource", vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the university with talents, and plans such as "visiting engineer" training, "full overseas project system" training, "overseas recruitment", "university and enterprise lecturer and engineer exchange". It has created a professional teaching team with a reasonable number and structure with the background of "engineering, professionalism and internationalization", and the overall level of the teachers has been continuously improved. institute has 1 national teaching masters, the national "ten thousand project" 1, 3 provincial teaching masters, in jiangsu province "333" 7 third level talent training objects, "blue project" in jiangsu province to develop a target of 21 1, provincial excellent teaching team, suzhou jinji lake "double hundred" talents with high skill talented person and suzhou 23 people.
The institute, adhering to the "international vocational education concept, indigenous innovation practice, regional results share" ideas of running institute, actively carry out chinese-foreign cooperation in running institutes, to carry out various forms of international cooperation and exchanges, walked out of a unique development path of internationalization, reveals institute international vocational education concept of breath, and continuously explore innovative vigor. Over the years, the institute has established close cooperative relations with universities and educational institutions of various countries, including cooperative education, international specialized courses, international internship, selection and training, exchange visits and international skills competition.