Instrumentation industry has a strong momentum of development

Instruments and meters are widely involved in various aspects related to the national economy, scientific research, and people's daily production. They are comprehensive engineering fields that provide detection, measurement, monitoring, and control devices, equipment, and technology. They are humans access to information, understanding nature, and transforming nature. The important tools for human society provide important material and technical protection. The rapid development of science and technology, as well as the continuous emergence of new materials and new processes, has enabled the development of instrumentation in the direction of precision, automation, intelligence, integration, miniaturization and versatility.

In the early years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, New China was in a period of unfinished business, large-scale economic recovery and construction, and a large number of large-scale backbone industrial enterprises and national defense industries required a large number of specialized instrument and meter talents. In 1952, Tianjin University and Zhejiang University took the lead in establishing " "Precision mechanical instrumentation" and "Optical Instrumentation", and gradually formed a system.

In 1958, a number of famous universities in China, such as Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Southeast University, Hefei University of Technology, and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, etc., all successively prepared to build precision instruments, and according to the Soviet Union’s model of running a school Corresponding to each instrument category, there are more than 10 specialties such as metrology instruments, optical instruments, timing instruments, analytical instruments, thermal instruments, aerospace instruments, electronic measuring instruments, and scientific instruments. With the loyalty to the Party’s education and the patriotic enthusiasm, the teachers and students have been working hard to develop. Under the difficult conditions of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, a group of batches of specialized instrumental talents cultivated by China have stepped out of the school gate to become the national economy. The backbone technical force in construction, national defense construction, and scientific research has made remarkable achievements.

For more than a decade, the predecessors in the field of instrumentation in the academic, scientific, and educational fields have conducted in-depth discussions, profound analysis, and insightful descriptions of the role of instrumentation. Famous scientists such as Wang Dazhao, Yang Jiaxuan, and Jin Guofan highly summarized and pointed out that “instrument and instrumentation is an important part of the information industry and the source of the information industry”, revealing the subject nature and orientation of instrumentation, and pointing out the development of instrumentation disciplines. The direction has a profound guiding significance for the development of the discipline, and it is an eternal appeal. The discipline of instrumentation has been correctly positioned, normatively narrated and the direction of development has been clarified.

The pace of development of the instrumentation professional is unprecedented. In less than 10 years, the scale of its education has roughly quadrupled. It shows good conditions for enrollment and distribution. The reasons for the major development of this major are both derived from the larger social needs and also from the social recognition of the professional education. The professional knowledge structure based on light, machine, electricity, and mathematics as the basis for cultivating talented people with wide-caliber and wide-ranging knowledge is in line with the needs of the talent market and is also in line with the booming development of information technology.