Shandong University of Technology was founded in 1956 and was one of the first public colleges certified to confer the bachelor's degree by China 's Department of State. The university is under the direct leadership of the Shandong Provincial Government and is located in Zibo city where the ancient and profound Qi culture originated.

    The university's fundamental goal is to provide high-level educational resources and cultivate socially demanded talents. By taking the teaching-centered orientation, it is the first to reform its student recruiting and credit system in the country; the former is characterized by “Big Arts, Big Science” categories, the latter by displaying the students' own personality and projecting their freedom of choice. The university constructs the talent cultivation system of “Knowledge Accumulation”, “Quality Fostering”, and “Ability Training” to cultivate “Reason Transcendent, Well-educated, and Practically Able” creative talents. Students here can study diversified courses of high quality, hear the lectures given by scholars who are famous both domestically and abroad in order to keep pace with the most advanced academic achievements, and to experience the power of science and insight of the wise. They can explore millions of library books, acquire information by the most advanced network technology in the province, and do experiments in the highly equipped laboratories and experience the profundity of knowledge and fun in acquiring it. They can also join in the colorful cultural activities at the campus, participate in the competitions such as the “Challenge Cup”, “Mathematics Modeling”, and “Electronic Design” which are at the national level, or take part in the wave of social practice to taste the joy of obtaining an enthusiasm of innovation. Since its foundation, the university has trained hundreds of thousands of graduates who have achieved recognition in humanity, profound expertise, and strong practical ability. Bearing the university's motto of “Integrity, Learning, Commitment, Perfection” in mind, they devote themselves either to academic research, or throw themselves into fact social, or establish high-tech firms. Many of them subsequently become the pillars of the society. Furthermore, the university's spirit of “Selfless Dedication, Pursuit of Excellence” and the study style of “Practice Learning and Integrity Equally, Never Tired of Knowing”, gaining profundity by generations of graduates, encouraging subsequent students to study diligently and developing full-fledgedly.

    The university adheres to the concept of “Educating Students by Environment” and strongly believes that there is nothing on campus which cannot influence students, such that fine environment may edify intelligence, nurture sentiment, beautify life, and purify soul. Relying on the rich legacy of the Qi and Lu cultures, the university constantly enhances the infrastructure construction and the planting of trees on campus according to the “High Starting-point, High Standard, and High Taste” principle. Focusing on the construction of sceneries of humanities, the university has built a campus, which is ecological, forested, digitized, and humanized. Throughout the four seasons, after a day of hard work, more than 32,000 students and 2,600 teachers can fully enjoy the small lakes, the bridges, the fragrance of flowers and the sound of birds chirping, when they stroll at the 240-hectre campus and experience the harmony and beauty of the co-existence between man and nature.

    A competent faculty is of utmost importance for the development of a university and the elevation of teaching quality. The university authority fully realizes that human resource is the topmost resource and great masters are the key factors in building a famous university. Thus the university authority takes the building of a high-quality faculty as the top priority in its work. A concourse of enterprising teachers has been introduced into the university according to the faculty-building principle of “Absorbing Talents, Cultivating Teams, and Making Masters”. Among these are masters such as Yao Fusheng, the university's president, a renowned expert in the field of power machinery and steam turbine and also academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Wan Zhexian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, founder of finite geometry and one of the pioneer mathematicians who carried out researches in cryptography and cryptology; Du Shanyi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, famous in mechanics and composite material, and one of the leading experts in composite material mechanics; Jin Xianglong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one of the founders and leading experts in submarine geosciences in the country; Yang Jinzong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one of the founders and leading experts in fine chemistry; Xu Houze, academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, expert of geodetic survey and physical geography; Lu Bingheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one of the pioneer and leading researchers in rapid prototyping & manufacture technology. Besides these masters, the university also hosts a group of teachers listed as “ New Century Excellent Talents of China”, the national level “Young and Middle-aged Expert With Outstanding Contribution”, the provincial level “Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contribution”, as well as “ Top-notch Talent of Shandong Province”. All these above-mentioned talents take cultivating top-quality students as their own responsibility. They are paragons of virtue and learning and they devote themselves to their teaching and research. They are good teachers and helpful friends for the students and backbone in the development of this university.

    Shandong University of Technology attaches great importance to scientific research, and believes that scientific exploration, independent innovation and contribution to the economic and social development are fundamental tasks for a university. The university insists on the research guideline of “Cultivating Talents, Accomplishing Achievements, and Improving Efficiency” and fully utilizes the advantage of its engineering-centered course arrangement, and attaches equal importance to basic researches and applied researches. By strengthening the connection between enterprises and research institutes, the university has contributed extensively to the development of the regional economy. The university has made the “Action Plan for SDUT's Contribution to Developing Shandong into a Major Manufacturing Province”, and has reorganized the research forces such as the National Research Center of Engineering Technology for Industrial Ceramics, Shandong Research Institute of Engineering Technology and more than ten other research institutes to serve the regional development and to shape Shandong into a major manufacturing province of the nation. The university has also established joint research institutes such as Shandong Numerical Control Technology Research Center and dozens other institutes to carry out applied research and solve technological problems. Shandong University of Technology has become one of the scientific research and technological innovation bases for the province.

    The university authority also realizes that the internationalization of higher education is both the inevitable trend in the era of knowledge-based economy and the internal requirement for the development of higher education itself. The university adheres to the openness principle and internationalization strategy, and has established friendly ties with dozens of universities in more than ten other nations. As a result, effective and extensive cooperation and communication have been conducted between this university and its sister universities. Students of various cultural backgrounds are welcome to study at this university to create a multi-cultural exchange, and we also send our own students to study in universities worldwide to have them deepen the understanding of the world and inspire their creative thinking.