Brief Introduction to the Department of Surveying and Mapping Science and Engineering of Hohai University

The history of the Department of Surveying and Mapping Science and Engineering of Hohai University can be traced back to Nanjing Hehai Engineering College, which was founded in 19 15. It is the first institution of higher learning in China with a major in surveying and mapping. The Department of Surveying and Mapping Science and Engineering now has the undergraduate major of Surveying and Mapping Engineering, and the surveying and mapping discipline has doctoral programs in geodesy and surveying engineering, post-doctoral mobile stations in surveying and mapping science and technology, geodesy and surveying engineering, photogrammetry and remote sensing, cartography and geographic information engineering to recruit and train doctors and graduate students. In 2004, the Ministry of Education announced the ranking of comprehensive strength of surveying and mapping disciplines in China, and the surveying and mapping disciplines in our school were among the best.