School of Environment and Ecology (SEE) is adistinctive school of Jiangsu City VocationalCollege, which has three deparments: Deparmentof Environmental Engineering, Deparment of Landscape Architecture and Laboratory Training Center.In order to build a new Jiangsuwith “strong economy, rich people, beautiful environment and high socialcivilization”, SEE always persists in service-aiming, employment-orientation, school-enterprise cooperation andthe fusion of production and education, and strives to train advanced technicaland skilled talents engaged in environmental monitoring, pollution control andurban landscape design and construction.
At present, SEE offers 6 college programs, a general undergraduateprogram (running jointly with Jiangsu Normal University)and 2 Open undergraduate programs. The college programs include Environmental EngineeringTechnology (the major supported by central finance, the provincial characteristic specialty, the key specialty ofthe college), Environmental Monitoring and Control Technology (the majorsupported by central finance and based on the training base of highervocational education ), Environmental Planning and Management, Garden Technology,Environmental Art Design and Landscape Architecture Design.General; the generalundergraduate program includes EnvironmentalEngineering major; the Open undergraduate programs include Environmental Engineeringand Agricultural Resources and Environment.
SEE currently has 34 full-time faculty membersincluding 12 teachers with senior titles, 17 lecturers and experimenters, 12 teacherswith doctor’ degree (3 teachers are studying for doctorates), 21 teachers with master'sdegree; 4 training objects of outstanding young backbone teachers of the Qinglanproject of Jiangsuprovince. Meanwhile, it also has a good and stable part-time faculty. In recentyears, our teachers have been successful in various teaching competitionsthroughout the country. (including the second prize of the national micro-teachingcompetition, the first prize of the provincial micro-teaching competition,etc.).
With the support of the school and society, thetraining conditions in the college are good, on which we can conductspecialized courses experimental training, social training and skillsidentification, and provide technical services. The training base ofEnvironmental Science (including the provincial training base of Pollution Monitoringand Control Technology and the training base of Environmental EngineeringTechnologysupported by central finance) covers an area of 4257.63square meters. SEE possesseslarge instruments such as gas chromatograph, liquid chromatograph, ionchromatography and atomic absorption spectrometer, the total value of whichexceeds 13 million yuan. The area of the urban garden base is about 866 squaremeters, and currently it has more than 200 sets of equipment, worth more than1.4 million yuan. In addition, SEE has nearly 40 off-school training bases allover Jiangsuprovince.
SEE has skill appraisal sites such as Water Quality InspectionWorkers (intermediate), Three Wastes Treatment Workers (intermediate), ChemicalInspection Workers (intermediate), Greening Workers (advanced) and Flower ArrangingMembers (advanced). And it alsohas the qualification of consultation service on cleaning production.
SEE is devoted to improving students' comprehensivequality and ability of the professional. It has four student clubs, namely, YouthAssociation Studio, Yuan Wei Garden Studio, Dance Association and Badminton Association.In the past five years, the students have won the group and individual firstprizes in the national and provincial skill competition. The employment rate ofstudents has always been at the forefront of the college.