Strategy and Communication
Tianjin University puts forward “deepening global cooperation” in its 14th Five-Year Plan, which requires actively serving the national strategy and the overall development of education, fitting into the overall layout of people-to-people and cultural exchanges with other countries and diplomatic strategies, deepening international and regional cooperation on education and research, opening wider to the outside world.
TIEI is a pilot area for cultivating international talents in engineering, which is jointly established by Tianjin University and Polytech Nice-Sophia in France, with advantages in resources and cooperation. TIEI aims to cultivate international leading talents in engineering for China’s economic development and world scientific and technological progress.
(1) Improve the cooperative education system. TIEI will continue to deepen and expand cooperation on the international engineering education with France as the main partner, further promote the integration of the advanced experience of French engineer education and the Emerging Engineering Education Program of Tianjin University through the establishment and improvement of the the curriculum system for cultivating global competency of students.
(2) Expand students’ global vision. TIEI will continue to strengthen the multicultural education of students, further promote the projects of joint cultivation, overseas graduation design and internships to cultivate students’ cross-cultural ability of cooperation and exchange, as well as their work competence in the field of international engineering.
(3) Strengthen the construction of international faculty. TIEI vigorously promotes the internationalization of the faculty and optimizes the structure and proportion of foreign teachers. Backbone faculty members, administrative and student affairs staff of the institute are dispatched to overseas cooperative colleges and universities for visit and further study. In this way, TIEI strives to build a well-established system for improving the international competence of the management teams.
(4)Improve international reputation and influence. Targeting on the international benchmark, TIEI actively draws on the construction and management concepts of international advanced schools/colleges. On that basis, The institute has established a normalized evaluation system, so as to promote the construction of an outstanding institute for the cultivation of talents in engineering with international education and management levels.
Organisational Structure and Internationalisation
TIEI takes full advantage of the internationalization strategy of TJU to improve teaching quality and capability to serve the society, and gives further impetus to scientific research to meet the needs of sound social development. International exchange can take the form of internship or educational exchange (semester-based) for TIEI students. In order to implement the internationalization strategy and facilitate students' overseas exchanges, TJU has signed project agreements with a number of foreign universities e.g. Université Côte d'Azur in France to exchange qualified students to Europe and the rest of the world. Meanwhile, Tianjin University has opened international courses along with several overseas educational institutes, which is exemplified in the cooperation with Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université d'Azur in France, Georgia Institute of Technology in the US and Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture et du Paysage de Bordeaux in France. TJU (TIEI) provides them with educational support and participates in curriculum development.
TIEI actively recruits international students and has been covered by the English program of China Scholarship Council (CSC), which accepts short-term exchange students and international students applying for degrees. International students under China's national program will be given priority to admission to TIEI. International exchange students from France, Morocco, Japan and other countries have been enrolled by TIEI since 2018. Due to national restrictions related to the pandemic situation in China, the welcome of international students has been postponed.
