College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering of Jilin University can be traced back to the specialties in Agricultural Machinery and Tractor of Changchun Automobile Tractor College, which were founded in 1955 and later combined into the Department of Agricultural Machinery. After that, College of Agricultural Machinery Engineering of former Jilin University of Technology was established, but merged into Jilin University in 2000. Based on the initial discipline of Agricultural Engineering and other related specializations, College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering was formally set up in May 2001.
It has formed a strong teaching team with Academician REN Luquan as its discipline leader, as well as doctoral supervisors and young and middle-aged doctors as its backbones. At present, there are 138 staff in total, including 85 professional teachers. Among them, 37 are professors and 34 are associate professors. More than * *% of the faculty have obtained doctoral degrees, and * *% have overseas education experience.
Believing that the quality of personnel training can be the lifeline of education, it has built up a complete high-level training system of bachelors, masters and doctors. Now there are 930 students in College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, including 585 undergraduates, 212 postgraduates, 129 doctoral students and 3 international students.
The College consists of departments in Agricultural Engineering, Bionic Science & Engineering, Packaging Engineering and Agricultural & Forestry Economics and Management. At present, it has five postgraduate disciplines, namely Agricultural Mechanization Engineering, Agricultural Biological Environment & Energy Engineering, Agricultural Electrification & Automation, Bionic Science & Engineering, as well as Agricultural & Forestry Economics and Management. There are 4 majors that enroll undergraduates, composed of Agricultural Mechanization and Automation, Packaging Engineering, Bionic Science & Engineering, and Agricultural & Forestry Economics and Management. In 2017, according to the “Double First-Class Initiative”, its disciplines of Agricultural Engineering and Bionic Science & Engineering were included into the “Mechanical and Bionic Engineering Discipline Group” approved by the Ministry of Education and independently constructed by Jilin University.
In addition, a number of provincial and ministerial key laboratories and research and innovation bases have been founded in the College, including the Key Laboratory of Engineering Bionic of the Ministry of Education, the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Engineering Bionic, the “Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Base for Engineering Bionic Technology and High-end Equipment” (111 Project), the Sino-British Joint Bionic Laboratory of Jilin University and University of Nottingham, member units of the National Engineering Laboratory for Grain Storage and Transportation, etc. It also initiated the “International Society of Bionic Engineering” with its secretariat permanently located in Jilin University, as well as the international academic journal “Journal of Bionic Engineering” (SCI, EI) with an impact factor of 2.388 in 2019. The College has also established long-term cooperation and exchange relations with more than 10 well-known foreign universities, such as The University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, Kansas State University and University of Tsukuba. Close domestic cooperation has been made as well with large enterprises or scientific research institutions, such as Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences, Academy of Agricultural Planning and Engineering, Academy of National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and YTO Group Corporation.
