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ABOUT SAD

School of Art & Design has 1243 students majoring in five undergraduate programs: environmental design (including interior design and landscape design 2 professional directions), product design, clothing and fashion design, visual communication design, industrial design. Among them, environmental design is the characteristic specialty of Jiangsu Province, and design (class) major is the key specialty of Jiangsu Province. The School’s creative and design experiment center is an experimental teaching demonstration center in Jiangsu Province.

Since the beginning of construction decoration in 1990, after nearly 30 years of development, the School has built a teaching and research team with more rational structure as well as more distinctive features. SAD has 50 full-time teachers, including 16 professors and associate professors, 2 master’s tutors, 6 doctors, master's degree or above accounting for 85%, and teachers with overseas experience accounting for 26%. 3 are selected as provincial “Blue Project”, “333 Project of Training High Level Talents” and other talent projects; 1 is the campus famous teacher, and 1 team is the provincial “Blue Project Teaching Team”; the School also introduced the Changjiang Scholar professor Huang Houming, fashion designer Wang Xinyuan as distinguished professors, and invited He Xiaoyou, Li Chaode, Lu Qinglong as well as a number of domestic famous scholars as part-time professors.

The School has continuously strengthened the discipline construction and specialty characteristic construction under the engineering background. “Integration of arts and engineering, collaboration of multidimensional design” specialty practice teaching system innovation achievements won the second prize of Jiangsu Province outstanding teaching achievement in 2013. “Four hit one, learn to use” and design professional “studio plus” practice teaching mode achievements obtained the first prize of Yancheng Institute of Technology outstanding teaching achievement in 2017. Students' design works have won the prizes for many times in Jiangsu Province outstanding graduate design, the provincial outstanding graduate design team, the red dot design award in 2016, the first prize of the 13th “Challenge Cup” Jiangsu Province college students extracurricular academic scientific and technological works competition, China fashion design “Debut Award”, etc. which amounts to more than 300 domestic and foreign design awards.

In recent years, the School’s scientific research and artistic creation have made great achievements, including 1 National Social Science Fund (Art), 4 provincial projects; more than 50 longitudinal scientific research projects; 9 monographs (Albums) , 17 professional books, more than 400 articles (works). In the domestic arts and professional design field, the School teachers show the first-class professional level in the history of the national art exhibition, winning 1 gold medal, 1 bronze medal, been selected in 6 times. The School was awarded the Jiangsu Province watercolor gouache creation research center by Jiangsu Province Artists Association; in the three world industrial design award teachers won the German red dot design award 3 times in 2007 and 2014, 1 the IF design award in 2010, the teachers gained over 200 awards at home and abroad.

Over the years, the School teachers and students use their expertise to serve the local economic and cultural construction. They have devoted themselves to the field of art design and art creation, designed a lot of excellent works, leading the direction of artistic creation, and achieved good results and received the widespread praise.