What stages have the development of measurement and control technology gone through?

The development of measurement and control technology can be roughly divided into three stages:

1, the first stage

1949 People's Republic of China (PRC) was declared, and new China entered a period of large-scale economic construction. Industrial enterprises and national defense construction urgently need instrument professionals. From 65438 to 0952, Tianjin University and Zhejiang University took the lead in setting up "Precision Mechanical Instrument Specialty" and "Optical Instrument Specialty".

Subsequently, other domestic universities, such as Tsinghua University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, etc. , and also set up a musical instrument major. At that time, the State Education Commission approved several colleges and universities to set up a master's degree in testing technology and instrumentation.

Groups of instrument and meter professionals trained in China have gone out of school and become the backbone technical force in national economic construction, national defense construction and scientific research.

2. The second stage

After 1978, with the rapid development of China's economic construction and technical level, the over-detailed product classification professional education under the Soviet school-running model can no longer meet the development needs of technology cross-integration in the new era. The guiding ideology of China's higher education gradually faces the world, the future, modernization and market economy.

Subsequently, disciplines were merged one after another until 1998, when the Ministry of Education issued a new catalog of undergraduate majors, which merged 1 1 professional precision instruments, optical technology and photoelectric instruments, detection technology and instruments, electronic instruments and measurement technology, geometric measurement and testing, and thermal measurement and testing into one major-measurement and control technology and instruments.

This is an important milestone in the transformation of higher education in China from junior college education to generalist education. The talent training mode with thick foundation and wide caliber conforms to the demand of talent market and the trend of vigorous development of information technology.

3. The third stage

2/KLOC-0 Since the beginning of the 20th century, the instrument specialty has developed at an unprecedented speed, the specialty of measurement and control technology and instruments has expanded, and the number of students has also expanded rapidly.

Professor Hu, Chairman of the Teaching Steering Committee, pointed out in the report entitled "Promoting the Innovation Education of Instrument Science and Technology with Quality Engineering as the Starting Point" published at the 2009 National Symposium on Instrument Science and Technology Teaching in Colleges and Universities that the number of colleges and universities offering undergraduate courses in measurement and control technology and instruments increased from 2000 in 2000 to 257 in 2009.

In recent years, the scale of undergraduate specialty of measurement and control technology and instrument has nearly quadrupled, showing a good trend of enrollment and employment. Such a rapid development trend reflects the vigorous development of instrument science and technology education, and also embodies the cohesion and unity spirit of our discipline.