About Wuxi Institute of Arts and Technology |
About Wuxi Institute of Arts & Technology
Wuxi Institute of Arts & Technology (WIAT) is located in Yixing, a city along the Taihu Lake and known as a hometown of professors & the Capital of Pottery. It is a nationally accredited full-time institute and functions directly under the Education Department of Jiangsu province. WIAT has a long history of nearly 70 years. It dates back to 1933 when Jiangsu Yixing Ceramic Primary Vocational School was founded, and then evolved as Jiangsu Yixing Ceramic Industry School in 1958, affiliated to Jiangsu Light Industry Department.
In March 1985, approved by the Jiangsu Light Industry Department, it was renamed as Jiangsu Yixing Light Industry School. In July 2004, approved by Jiangsu provincial government, Wuxi Institute of Arts & Technology was established and at the same time, the organizational system of Jiangsu Yixing Light Industry School was revoked.
The institute has a competent teaching force. More than 56 teachers have the rank of associate professor and 51 instructors hold Master and post-graduate degree. What is more, among the faculty giving specialized lectures and general courses, the rate of double-degree lecturers is over 70%. On the other hand, the institute provides with up-to-date facilities including the modern experimental laboratories, training bases, and a multi-functional library containing nearly 200,000 books and issues.
WIAT has six departments. They are Department of Ceramic Art, Department of Fashion Design, Department of Art Design, Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Department of Material Engineering, and Department of Economics and Business, mainly involving more than 20 three-year system college and five-year system senior vocational institute majors and cultivating professional talents specialized in the field of Ceramic & Crafts, Art & Fashion, Mechanics & Electronics, Material Engineering, Optometry Technology, Modern Information Technology, and Commercial Trade. Especially, Ceramic Art Design, Ceramic Technique and Optometry Technology are distinctive majors among all the provincial higher vocational institutes. There are lots of famous ceramists and the national first-class artists. Constantly, all kinds of external technical services and international communications on ceramic art technology are promoted by the institute. Besides, the famous senior optometrists and experts in the spectacles rank of Jiangsu province are in the Optometry Technology teaching team.
In order to cultivate high level skilled and applied talents better, the institute cooperates with local universities like Nanjing Arts Institute and Nanjing Audit University to provide more opportunities for students to study further undergraduate courses. Besides, it develops international cooperative programs actively to introduce into the overseas high quality educational resources. By now, it has established a long-term cooperative relation with Mohawk College, Canada.
WIAT insists on the service tenet and employment orientation, uses international advanced educational experiences for reference, promotes the educational reform positively, and has formed a distinctive mechanism to cultivate talents. The graduates’ employment foreground is bright and the average employed rate is over 98%.
At present, WIAT has two campuses, covering an area of over 100 acres and the new campus building area amounts to approximately 150,000 square meters, which can hold more than 6,000 students. It is a new ecological, garden and digitalized campus with mountains merging into waters.
Looking into the future, in conformity with the belief of “Sincere and excellent education, happy and efficient study” and the principles of high starting point of research, high standard of requirement and high quality of development, Wuxi Institute of Arts &Technology will be built as a high-level and distinctive higher vocational institute cultivating professional talents with high quality specialized in arts & technologies in the 21st century.
