【Face-to-face Food Majors】Introduction to the School of Light Industry Science and Engineering, Sichuan University

02 Introduction to the School of Light Industry Science and Engineering

The School of Light Industry Science and Engineering is one of Sichuan University’s earliest and most established colleges.

Introduction to Food Science and Engineering

The food science and engineering major relies on Sichuan University's double first-class construction disciplines, with the top 5‰ agricultural disciplines in the ESI ranking, 2 national key disciplines and 4 national, provincial and ministerial key scientific research laboratories, and has a basic-master-doctoral training System and post-doctoral mobile station; aim to cultivate a solid theoretical foundation and professional skills in food science, food engineering, etc.
, with good professional ethics, team spirit, cross-cultural communication skills, innovative awareness and international vision, and be able to engage in food and related fields New engineering talents and high-level leading talents engaged in basic research, product development, engineering design, analysis and testing, production management, and operation management
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History

This major is the birthplace of the food major in Southwest China.
It is the first research university in Western China to recruit food talents and a model for the development of the engineering food major in the western region
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This major began in the first batch of domestic food and chemical engineering majors established by Chengdu Institute of Technology.
It began to train undergraduates in food engineering in 1952.
In 1998, it was enrolled in food science and engineering majors.
In 2014, it was selected as the Sichuan Excellent Engineer Program.
It has a national/ There are 6 provincial-level experimental teaching platforms, which can carry out undergraduate-master-doctoral training and multi-level talent training.
In 2019, it passed the Chinese Engineering Education Professional Certification and the first-class undergraduate program in Sichuan Province.
In 2021, it was selected as the first-class national undergraduate program
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Faculty

After years of construction, the profession has formed a reasonably structured high-level faculty team, with a doctorate coverage rate of 94%.
All teachers have visits and research experiences in high-level foreign universities or scientific research institutions
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The talent team includes 5 people from the national talent plan and 6 people from the provincial talent plan.
2 of them were elected to the Food Science and Engineering Teaching Steering Committee of Higher Education Ministry of Education, and 1 director of the Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology, and the Chinese Society of Agriculture There are 1 director, 4 review experts for China Scholarship Council, 8 editors of various domestic core journals, and 10 editors and reviewers of important international academic journals (such as Food Chemistry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, etc.
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The school specially hires 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 foreign high-end professor, and 8 foreign visiting professors from the United States, Japan, and South Korea
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In the past 5 years, he has won 8 teaching achievement awards at all levels, published 25 teaching reform papers, and published more than 20 monographs and textbooks
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talent development

The major makes use of the school’s multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, research-oriented, and open-running advantages, gathers high-quality teaching resources both inside and outside the school, and integrates with strong disciplines such as clinical medicine (nutrition), public health, and life sciences in the school.
Root University, Mokpo University in South Korea and Kumamoto University in Japan have jointly run schools to cultivate interdisciplinary and international talents
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Promote the classroom revolution through "inquiry->
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Cultivated a number of national honorary titles such as "Baosteel National Outstanding Student Award", "Doctoral Newcomer Award of the Ministry of Education" and other national honorary titles.
In the past three years, undergraduates have won one national silver medal in the "Challenge Cup" and the "Internet +" province There will be 1 first/second prize for each level
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Introduction of Subject Leaders

He Qiang, professor and doctoral supervisor