The major of Optoelectronics Information Science and Engineering of South China University of Technology belongs to the School of Physics and Optoelectronics, which originated from the major of Applied Physics of South China University of Technology in 1986. It was renamed as Optical Information Science and Technology in 2002, and Optoelectronics Information Science and Engineering in 2013. In 2004, it was named as the bilingual teaching pilot major of South China University of Technology. In 2015, it was awarded the Applied Talents Training Demonstration Major of Guangdong Province, and in 2019, it was approved as the national first-class undergraduate major construction point. There are 365 students in this major. The College of Physics and Optoelectronics, on which this major is based, has the authorization of doctoral and master's degree in first-level disciplines of physics, and has set up a Physics postdoctoral mobile station since 2019; This discipline is the key discipline of Guangzhou City. Since the establishment of the major for nearly two decades, it has laid a profound foundation for running a school and created an engineering major with distinctive characteristics and strong strength.
First, professional positioning
The major of Optoelectronics Information Science and Engineering is based on the School of Physics and Optoelectronics, adhering to the student-centered education and teaching concept. In order to meet the needs of China's social and economic construction, especially the construction of the optoelectronic information industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, based on the cultivation of optoelectronic information science with a solid foundation, international vision, and innovative composite senior professionals in the fields of optoelectronic technology, optoelectronic perception and communication.
2. Training objectives and specifications
With the Party's educational policy as the criterion, moral education as the guidance, based on the national strategic emerging industries and the major strategic needs of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area photoelectric information industry cluster, the major cultivates both national feelings and global vision, excellent three forces (learning, thinking, action), all-round development of moral, intellectual, physical and labor, and has a solid mathematical foundation. Good theoretical foundation and practical ability in the field of optoelectronic technology, optoelectronic perception and communication in the field of optoelectronic information science and engineering, able to constantly adapt to technological progress and social changes, with excellent humanistic quality, innovative consciousness, team spirit and international vision. Be able to engage in and lead the research, development and management of complex engineering problems in the field of optoelectronic technology, optoelectronic perception and communication, and have high-quality three creative (innovation, creation, entrepreneurship) talents with learning ability, thinking ability and action power.
This major requires 170 credits for graduation (see Table 1 for specific credit statistics). The requirements of graduates in terms of engineering ability, engineering literacy and development ability are as follows: (1) Be able to promote the development of cutting-edge technologies in the field of optoelectronic information science and engineering, have a prominent sense of engineering innovation, and be able to flexibly use modern tools and related technologies to engage in research, development and management in the field of optoelectronic technology, optoelectronic perception and communication. (2) Have excellent professional quality and outstanding innovation ability, can constantly adapt to the international and domestic new situation of optoelectronic information science and engineering professional development of modern technology, proficient in the application of relevant scientific theories and professional knowledge, Be able to work as a team or project leader, technical or management backbone to carry out innovative and systematic research and development work on complex engineering problems in the field of optoelectronic technology, optoelectronic sensing and communication. (3) Have excellent moral cultivation, scientific literacy, humanistic quality, innovative consciousness, legal concept, cooperative spirit, international vision and social responsibility, and have the ability to learn and adapt to development.
Table 1: Statistical table of credits for this major
Course Category Course requirements Credit Hours Note
Public Foundation courses are required 61 1196
General Studies 10 160
Professional basic courses required 48 864
Electives 20 320
Total: 139,2540
Intensive practical teaching session (week) Compulsory 31 35 weeks
The required graduation credits are 139+31=170
Third, curriculum system
This major requires 170 credits for graduation, including 35 weeks of concentrated practical teaching (31 credits). Upon graduation, students must complete the credits stipulated in the professional teaching plan, and obtain 2 credits of humanities quality education in the second class and 4 credits of innovation ability cultivation. According to the training objectives and graduation requirements, the total number of class hours is 2556, including 2076 compulsory class hours and 494 experimental teaching hours, including: public basic course, professional basic course, professional elective course, optoelectronic information public elective course, concentrated practice teaching links and second class. The core courses of this major include: Optics (4 credits), Electrodynamics (4 credits), Fundamentals of Information Theory (3 credits), Engineering optics (2 credits), quantum mechanics (4 credits), Laser Physics and Technology (4 credits), Fundamentals of optoelectronics (3 credits), solid State physics (4 credits), and photoelectric experiments (4.5 credits).
4. Teaching staff
There are 25 teachers in this specialty, including 10 professors and 11 associate professors/associate researchers/senior experimentalists. Among the teachers, there is 1 special professor of Cheung Kong Scholars of the Ministry of Education, 2 winners of the National Outstanding Young People Fund, 1 leading scientific and technological innovation talent of the National Ten Thousand People Plan, 1 winner of the National Outstanding Young People Fund, 1 overseas high-level talent, 1 selected as a national Major talent Project, 1 outstanding talent Plan of the Ministry of Education for the New century. There are 2 distinguished professors of Zhujiang Scholars in Guangdong Province, and 2 winners of Guangdong Outstanding Youth Science Fund. The major attaches great importance to the training of young teachers, with 48% of teachers under 45 years old and 12% of young teachers under 35 years old. There are 24 teachers with doctoral degrees, accounting for 96%. The student-teacher ratio between undergraduates and full-time teachers is 14.6. The teachers have enough teaching ability, professional background and engineering experience to meet the needs of professional teaching. The teachers have a reasonable structure, good development potential, and high teaching and academic level.
5. Teaching conditions
At present, the College of Physics and Optoelectronics has a teaching and research building (No.18 Building of Wushan Campus), with an area of 1400 square meters for undergraduate teaching experiments and equipment assets of about 51 million yuan for undergraduate experimental teaching. It has undergraduate professional laboratory, physical experiment center (Building 31, Wushan Campus, University City campus), electronic technology teaching practice Center (Building 31, Wushan Campus), artificial photoacoustic microstructure physics and materials Laboratory (Liwu Science and Technology Building), high voltage science Laboratory, Guangdong Optoelectronic Engineering Center (Building 23, Wushan Campus). This major relies on the State Key Laboratory of Luminous Materials and Devices, Guangdong third generation Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering Laboratory, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Fiber Laser Materials and Application Technology, Guangdong Special Fiber Materials and devices Engineering Research and Development Center, Guangdong Optoelectronic Engineering Technology Research and Development Center, Guangdong University Semiconductor Lighting Technology Engineering and Technology Research Center The Key Laboratory of Wide Band Gap semi-conductor Chip and Application System, the Experimental teaching Center of Electronic Technology (Guangdong Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center) and other 14 off-campus practice teaching bases for college students are a number of national and provincial practical teaching and scientific research bases. Maintain close cooperation with domestic research institutes to provide students with high-quality internship bases, including: Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dongguan Neutron Science Center, Electronic Five Institute, etc.
6. Quality assurance and training effectiveness
This major has established a sound joint teaching management system at the school and the school levels. The school has formulated a teaching supervision system, a white paper on teaching quality, and other systems. The school has formulated a whole-process teaching supervision system of prevention before the event, control during the event, and backward check after the event, and scientifically arranges teaching tasks according to the research direction of teachers. At the same time, establish a normal monitoring mechanism for the teaching process, hold a meeting of the professional steering committee, solicit suggestions from enterprises or industry experts, understand the focus of the assessment of students by employers in the process of job hunting through seminars and questionnaires issued by prospective students, and regularly evaluate the rationality of the curriculum system and make corresponding revisions. This major makes a small adjustment to the training program every two years, and a large revision every four years. This major has established a relatively complete graduate tracking feedback and social evaluation mechanism with the participation of relevant parties outside the higher education system. Every year, we fully communicate with alumni, graduates, employers and industry experts by means of discussion and questionnaire survey to understand the employment quality and employment development trend of graduates, so as to improve training programs and curriculum Settings.
The professional talent training results are outstanding, the employment rate of students is high, the further study rate is constantly improved, and a number of outstanding alumni have emerged. From 2020 to 2022, the employment placement rate is 99.13%, 99.20%, 99.32%, and the graduation rate is 38.16%, 52.11%, and 78.78%, respectively. Among them, District Weineng graduated from this major in 2005, and now works in Guangdong Jinke Electronics Co., LTD., senior director, mainly responsible for the company's LED new product design and development, key process platform construction and application program promotion. Chen Qinzhi graduated from this major in 2006, and now works as a senior manager, System Solution and International business Department of Hong Kong Wanhui Information Co., LTD., mainly responsible for the construction of communication network, including optical fiber communication, transmission network, mobile base station, etc. Kong Zhen graduated from this major in 2007, now working in China Mobile Communications Group Guangdong Co., LTD., transmission operation and maintenance supervisor, 2013-2015 and 2018-2019 the company's advanced individual,
