The School of Aerospace Science and Technology(SAST)wasfoundedon July 14, 2013.To meet the needs of national space development, itis a major initiative of Xidian University to support the development ofthesuperior disciplinesofaerospace electronic information. Bao Weimin,theacademician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of Science and Technology Commission of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation,isspecially appointed as thedeanof the school. SASTfocuseson the frontier research inthefield of aerospace science. Supported by the discipline construction, the fundamental goal of SAST is to cultivate the innovative peopleurgentlyneeded in the development of the state astronautic technology. It serves national development demand with the research results andfirst-classtalents,andcloselycombinesthe fundamentality, innovativeness and engineering quality.
SAST has three departments and one experiment center, namely, the Departmentof Measurement, Control and Communication, theDepartment ofNavigation and Control, the DepartmentofIntelligent Detection and the Space Science and Technology Experiment Center. It also has four research institutes, namely,thethe Institute of Measurement, Control and Communication of Space Vehicle, the Instituteof Navigation,Detection and Guidance, the InstituteofIntelligent Control and Image Engineering and the InstituteofMechanical System and Advanced Control.
The school has two academic master enrollment disciplines: InstrumentScience and Technology,andControlScience and Engineering.It also hastwo professional master enrollment fields: Space VehicleMeasurement,Controland Guidance,andSpace VehicleSystem Engineering.The schooladmits Ph.D. students majored inInstrumentScience andTechnology,and ControlScience andEngineering. The school hasthreeundergraduate specialtiesnamed theTechnologies ofDetection,Guidance andControl,Space Science and Technology, and Aircraft Design and Engineering. Qian Xuesen Space Science Experimental Class is managed by the school.
SASTcurrentlyhas more than90full-timefaculties, including 2 dual-employed academicians, 17professors,38associate professors,and2NationalTeachingAdvisoryCommitteemembers. It also hasone faculty elected in theNew Century Excellent Talents of Ministry of Education of China,oneShaanxi provincial outstanding teaching fellow,onescience andtechnologyinnovation teamofShaanxi, oneawarded Xi’anYouthScience andTechnologyTalent,and threeuniversity-leveloutstandingteachers.Of the faculties, three are 31Ph.D.supervisors and 64Master supervisors.The school now hasmore than 400 undergraduates, more than 300 masterdegreecandidatesand more than100Ph.D.candidates. SAST has one national excellent course, one national "first-class major", two provincial characteristic majors, two provincial excellent courses and one university-level excellent course.
SAST conducts forward-looking,fundamental, strategic and innovative scientific research aimed atthemajor national needs such as adjacent space development, deep space exploration, manned spaceflight and Beidou navigation. Remarkableand domestically leadingachievements have been made in plasma sheath measurement, control and communication of high-speed aircraft in near space, advanced navigation guidance and control of spacevehicles, space exploration and intelligent information processing, and missile-borne integrated electronic system and reliability. SAST undertakes 7 national major projectswith the fundbeing overten millionyuan, and has been approved as the firstatthe universityto undertake973Programof the Ministry of Science and Technology. The school is alsothe firstto have the major ScientificInstrumentDevelopment project of the NSFC, and the firstto carry out themajor research plan of the NSFC. SAST hasattracted an accumulation fund ofmore than 250 millionyuan,published381 SCI papersand has been granted196 invention patents. Besides, it has earned2 provincial and ministerial scientific research achievements awards.
SAST focuses onboththeory and practice, and builds a space science and technology experiment center. It has become an incubator for high-level scientific research achievements and a training base for top-notch innovative talents. SAST pays attention to the cooperationwith institutions.In order to cultivate innovative talents,SASTco-built the Qian Xuesen Space Science Talent Training Base with Qian Xuesen Space Technology Laboratory, the Joint Research Center of Near Space Vehicle Measurement and Control and Special Measurement Technology with the Key Laboratory of Space Physics, and the Joint Innovation Laboratory of Space Measurement, Control and Communication Technology with Beijing Institute of Telemetry. SAST focuses on extensive academic exchanges and cooperation with famous universities and scientific research institutions at home and abroad, and invites many academicians, experts and scholars at home and abroad to give lectures intheschool.
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