SAO DO UNIVERSITY - APPLICATION-ORIENTED HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONSAO DO UNIVERSITY - APPLICATION-ORIENTED HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION
SaoDo University
Facilities – staff, lecturers
1. Facilties: The university has 2 training centers: Headquarter: No. 24, Thai Hoc II Street, Sao Do Ward, Chi Linh City, Hai Duong Province; Branch: Km 78, National Highway 37, Thai Hoc Ward - Chi Linh City - Hai Duong Province with the total area of 25.41 ha.
Both training centers include 69 theoretical classrooms, 84 practical and experimental rooms with a total area of 11,820 m2. All classrooms are equipped with multi-function projectors or liquid crystal screen for teaching and learning, 100% of the theoretical classrooms are equipped with air conditioners - warm in winter, cool in summer. Practical and experimental centers are equipped with advanced technologies such as mechanical processing machines controlled by digital technology (CNC machines); coordinate measuring machine 3DCMM; mechanical and material testing machine; automatic welding machines; welding robot; measuring devices with high accuracy; equipment system for testing and diagnostics of Brainbee (Italia), AHS (Germany); equipment for practising and experimenting on ABS braking systems for new engines used on Toyota Altis, Toyota Camry, Lexus; all kinds of automatic transmission, stepless gearbox of Toyota and Nissan; equipment for general repair (GJ), car body repair (BP) using modern water-based paint technology according to Toyota standards.
Modern equipment helps students analyze, design control systems to automate production lines, monitor production processes in factories, collect and control SCADA observations and communication protocol in industry, design and experiment software programming algorithms for CNC machines, industrial Robot applied in many different fields. All the university's management activities are supported by a system of copyright management software such as: Training management, human resource management, financial management, internal document management ... allowing lecturers, staff and students to access through their own accounts.
Total area of the library information center is 600m2. The materials are managed by LIBOL 6.0 software and the networked computer systems allow readers to access and use electronic documents and exploit other information resources on the Internet. The library has 3,539 reference books in Vietnamese and foreign languages that meet the requirements for references, the teaching and researching demand of staff, lecturers and students. Electronic library consists of nearly 100 computers for research and study. Every year the university spends hundreds of millions on purchasing additional materials, books and magazines for the library.
2. Lecturers, Staff: Currently, the University has 298 staff and lecturers (of which 188 lecturers teaching undergraduate/graduate level, ensuring the ratio of students/lecturers from 18-20 students/lecture). 12.6% of lecturers have submitted the doctoral degree, the rest have master's degrees, in addition, there are 38 lecturers doing PhD research in Vietnam as well as abroad and abroad such as Russia, France, China, ... Every year, there are 5 ÷ 7 teachers successfully complete their doctoral dissertation. By 2020, there will be 19 - 21% of university lecturers with PhD degrees.
Over 50 years of construction and development, the university is strong in both quantity and quality with 11 teachers awarded First, Second, and Third -class Labor Medal and the Third-class National Protection Medal. In 2017, the Rector of the university was honored to be conferred the title of People's Teacher by the President; 14 lecturers were awarded the title of Teacher of Merit; 23 lectures awarded the title of Excellent teachers at nation level; 100 lectures awarded the title of Excellent teachers at the Ministerial, Provincial levels; Every year, hundreds of lecturers are recognized as good teachers at the university level.