Harbin Engineering University is located in the beautiful Songhua River, Harbin, the northern city of ice. The predecessor of the school was the PLA Academy of military engineering, founded in 1953. In 1970, on the basis of the full construction of the Naval Engineering Department and some of the other departments of the Department, the Harbin marine engineering college was established at the site of the "Harbin army". In 1978, the State Council established it as the national key university; in 1982, it became the first unit with the right to grant the doctorate and master's degree; in 1994, it was renamed the Harbin project. In 1996, it entered the ranks of the first batch of "211 projects" for construction of colleges and universities; in 2002, the national defense science and Technology Committee and the people's Government of Heilongjiang Province focused on the construction of the University. In the same year, the Ministry of Education approved the trial graduate school; in 2003, the Ministry of science and technology and the Ministry of Education awarded the title of the "National University Science Park" in the school science and technology park; in 2007, the Ministry of defense industry and Industry The Ministry of education, the people's Government of Heilongjiang, and the Navy, and the Ministry of Education approved the formal establishment of Graduate School in the same year. In 2011, it entered the ranks of the national "985 Project" innovation platform for the dominant disciplines. The school is now affiliated to the State Ministry of industry and information technology. It is an important base for personnel training and scientific research in the field of "three seas and one core" (shipbuilding industry, naval equipment, marine development, nuclear energy application).

The school covers an area of 1 million 256 thousand and 100 square meters and a building area of 1 million 35 thousand and 400 square meters. The campus buildings are full of Chinese and Western styles, and the eaves and tiles are magnificent. Now there are 16 professional colleges (Department and department), more than 40 scientific research institutions and more than 150 scientific research and teaching laboratories, including 2 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering laboratories, 3 national international scientific and technological cooperation bases, 5 key laboratories of the Ministry of industry and information technology, 2 National Defense Key laboratory laboratories, and education. There are 5 key laboratory and engineering research centers, 3 national subject innovation and intellectual bases, 1 National Electrical and electronic teaching bases, 7 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 National virtual simulation experimental teaching centers and 1 National College Students' cultural quality education base. The total value of fixed assets is 3 billion 680 million yuan. There are 2 million 260 thousand and 900 books of paper collection in the library.

The school has the characteristic discipline system of "three seas and one core" with distinctive subjects, distinctive supporting disciplines and reasonable professional structure. There are 12 doctoral points in the first class, 29 masters in the first class, 34 for undergraduate admissions (class), 12 for postdoctoral scientific research stations and 2 for post doctoral research workstations. The first level subject state key subjects are 1 and two national key disciplines, 1 national key disciplines. In 13th Five-Year, there are 7 national defense characteristics, 7 national defense specialties, 4 major comprehensive reform experiments of the Ministry of education, 1 major subjects and 11 first class disciplines in Heilongjiang province. "Modern ships and deep-sea Engineering" ranks among the national "advantage disciplines innovation platform". Materials science, engineering and chemistry enter the top 1% ranks of ESI.

The school has 3006 faculty members, including 1803 full-time teachers, 1062 professors and associate professors. Among the teachers, there are 8 academicians of the "two courtyards" (including 5 people), 477 doctoral tutors, more than 100 experts of special subsidies for government, 10 people in the Millennium Program, 2 of the youth scientific and technological innovation leaders, 1 teachers, 5 young talents, and 4 special professors of the Yangtze River Scholar Award program. There are 3 lecture professors, 1 young scholars, 1 National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation, 2 National Excellent Youth Fund, 24 new century excellent talent support program, 2 innovation team of the Ministry of education, and 6 national defense science and technology innovation team. There are 28278 college students, of whom 15124 are full-time undergraduates, 7759 are full-time graduates, and 1348 are foreign students. The school is the first to be selected as the first "education and training program for excellent engineers", and the Ministry of education and the General Political Department included the "twenty-first Century talent and strong army plan", which is the only support school for the navy to select and train reserve officers in the northeast.

The school is closely related to the theme of improving the quality of talent training, fully implementing the fundamental task of the people of Lide tree, deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, promoting the deep integration of information technology and education and teaching, and promoting the process of internationalization, and focus on training the first-class engineers of "wide field of vision, thick foundation, strong ability, excellent quality and reliable use" Industry leading talents and scientists. In recent years, students have gained international and national competitions in the international and domestic competitions, such as "Internet +" College Students' innovation and entrepreneurship competition, the "Challenge Cup" National College Students' extracurricular scientific and technological competition, the National College Students' annual meeting, the "Youth" national college student competition, the international unmanned underwater robot competition and so on. More than 1000 family awards, "E only" robot innovation team, "create wing" innovation team won "Xiaoping science and technology innovation team", the University Student Alliance for five years won "the top ten KAB entrepreneurship club in the country". In 2011, the College of entrepreneurship education was set up. The school has been awarded the title of China Youth Science and technology innovation demonstration base, the national 54 red flag League Committee, the national youth employment and entrepreneurship education, the national science popularization education base and so on. The employment rate of undergraduate and graduate students is more than 90%. It has been the first place in Heilongjiang province for ten years. It has become one of the 50 typical universities in the country. The number of excellent doctoral dissertations and nominations in the country accounts for 40% of the total number of awards in the National Marine and marine engineering disciplines. The number of outstanding master degree dissertations in the province ranks first in Heilongjiang province for two consecutive years. Graduates