The 3D Printing School is the first secondaryschoolin China to cultivate applied undergraduate talents in 3D printing. Theschooladheres to the educational philosophy of emphasizing both theory and practice, and advancing exploration and innovation simultaneously. It adopts a new engineering talent cultivation model and has distinct characteristics and advantages in terms of major setting, talent cultivation, and industry-education integration. In 2021, it successfully applied for and was approved for the first undergraduate major outside the catalog of Additive Manufacturing Engineering in China. Currently, it has completed four rounds of first-batch undergraduate enrollment within the province.

I. Teaching Staff

Theschool currentlyhas38 faculty members, among whom 11 have a doctorate degree, accounting for approximately 28.9%, and 13 have senior professional titles, accounting for approximately 34.2%. Through industry-education integration, theschoolhas introduced a large number of industry mentors to assist in the cultivation of new engineering talents.

II. Teaching Resources

The school has invested more than 30 million yuan to build an experimental and training center equipped with various types of 3D printing equipment such as metal, nylon, resin, and biological materials. With a construction area of nearly 3,000 square meters, it is the training center with the most complete variety of 3D printing in domestic universities.

Theschoolattaches great importance to the construction of teaching and research platforms. It has six provincial-level platforms, including the Henan 3D Printing Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, the Henan 3D Printing Technology Engineering Research Center, the Henan Key Modern IndustrialSchoolof Additive Manufacturing, the Henan Off-campus Practice Education Base forSchoolStudents, the Henan Social Practice Education Base for Primary and Middle School Students, and the Henan Popular Science Base, as well as 2 municipal-level key laboratories. These provide software and hardware guarantees for the integration of science and education and industry-education integration, and the quality of new engineering talent cultivation has been improving year by year.

III.Undergraduate programs

Additive Manufacturing Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Rehabilitation Engineering

IV. Industry-Education Integration

The schoolactively explores and innovates the talent cultivation model. It jointly builds the Xinxiang New Material (3D Printing Material) Testing and Evaluation Center with the Xinxiang Municipal People's Government and Northwestern Poly-technical University. It also cooperates with Anhui Jinzhai Jinke Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. to build the industry-education integration project "Xinxiang University-Jinzhai Jinke Intelligent ManufacturingSchool". In addition, it has signed industry-education integration cooperation agreements with many enterprises such as Shanghai Form-labs Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou Boly New Material Technology Co., Ltd., Zhengzhou Pinkang Prosthetics and Orthotics Technology Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Jingji Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Through in-depth industry-education integration, the "Construction of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Practice Base for New Engineering Talents" project has been recognized as one of the first-batch of industry-education integration brand projects in Henan provincial undergraduate universities.

The Additive Manufacturing Modern IndustrialSchoolwas successfully approved as a key modern industrialSchoolin Henan Province in 2023.

V. Student Development

Theschoolabsorbs students into the teacher-led research teams through the Innovation-Guiding Project, and provides high-quality training opportunities for students through industry-education integration, continuously improving students' knowledge, abilities, and qualities.

In recent years, students have won many national and provincial awards in projects such as the NationalSchoolStudents' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, the "Challenge Cup"SchoolStudents' Science and Technology Works Competition, the Internet+, the "Youth Innovation"CollegeStudents' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the National 3D Competition. During their studies, students have applied for and been authorized with a number of national patents. In 2024, students were admitted to postgraduate programs at universities such as Nanchang University, Chang'an University, Henan University, Hainan University, Taiyuan University of Technology, Hebei University of Technology, and Yanshan University.

VI. Scientific Research

In recent years, theschoolhas won 1 thirdprize of the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 first prize of the Xinxiang City Science and Technology Progress Award, 7 scientific research projects of the Henan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, 1 basic and frontier research project of the Henan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, 1 basic research project of the Henan Provincial Department of Education, 2 key projects of higher education institutions of the Henan Provincial Department of Education, 1 open project of the State Key Laboratory of Networking at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2 scientific research projects of Xinxiang City, and 7 horizontal cooperation projects. It has published more than 50 core papers in SCI, EI, etc., and obtained 13 patents, including 5 invention patents and 8 utility model patents. In terms of teaching, it has won 1 second prize of the Henan Provincial Teacher Education and Teaching Achievement Award, 1 industry-education integration brand project in Henan Province, 1 first class undergraduate course in Henan Province, and 1 first prize in the teaching skills competition of the Henan education system.

VII. Undergraduateprograms

Additive Manufacturing Engineering

The Additive Manufacturing Engineering is a major outside the catalog approved by the Ministry of Education in 2021 by Xinxiang University. In the same year, it obtained the enrollment qualification for the first batch undergraduate in Henan Province, and our university became the first university in China to offer this major. The Additive Manufacturing Engineering belongs to the engineering category and the mechanical engineering major, and it is a multi-disciplinary major integrating mechanical engineering, control science and engineering, mechanics, and materials engineering. This major aimsat the needs of the transformation and upgrading of China's basic manufacturing industry. Based in Henan and radiating across the country, it takes advanced 3D printing technology as the main development direction, and takes the talent cultivation model of solid foundation and emphasis on practice. It is oriented towards serving the advanced manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing industries. Combining with the school's educational orientation, it cultivates high-level applied talents with good ideological and moral character, excellent professional knowledge, strong practical ability, and high comprehensive quality in the field of 3D printing.

Core Courses:Principles and Applications of Additive Manufacturing Technology, Laser Processing Technology, Metal 3D Printing Technology, Optimized Design of Additive Manufacturing Structures, 3D Modeling Technology, 3D Printing Reverse Engineering, Fundamentals of Mechanical Control Engineering, Fundamentals of Mechanical Design.

Biomedical Engineering

The Biomedical Engineering major belongs to the engineering category and the biomedical engineering major category. It is a highly interdisciplinary emerging discipline that integrates the principles and methods of biology, medicine, and engineering. From an engineering perspective, it studies the structure, function, and their interrelationships of the human body at multiple levels, aiming to provide new technical means for disease prevention and treatment. The Biomedical Engineering major of ourSchoolcombines bio-medicine with 3D printing technology, with distinct characteristics of medical-engineering intersection in the field of 3D-printing-empowered bio-medicine. The professional knowledge system covers courses such as electronic technology, signals and systems, medical imaging principles, medical image processing, principles of biomedical sensors, biomechanics, and 3D printing. Related disciplines include biochemistry, medicine, materials science, and engineering. This major adheres to the orientation of the social demand for talent quality, and cultivates applied talents with good ideological and moral character, excellent professional knowledge, strong practical ability, and high comprehensive quality for society.

Core Courses:Signals and Systems, Medical Imaging Principles, Biomechanics, Digital Signal Processing, Principles of Biomedical Sensors, Principles of Single-Chip Microcomputers and Embedded Systems, Medical Image Processing, Principles of Medical Instruments.

Rehabilitation Engineering

The Rehabilitation Engineering major belongs to the engineering category and the biomedical engineering major category. It is an interdisciplinary subject of rehabilitation medicine and engineering technology. By studying comprehensive engineering technologies such as machinery, electronics, computer, and 3D printing technology, it is used to prevent, evaluate, enhance, substitute, or reconstruct the functions of people with functional impairments. The professional knowledge system covers courses such as advanced mathematics,Schoolphysics, engineering drawing, rehabilitation medicine, fundamentals of mechanical design, human-computer interaction technology, prosthetics and orthotics, ergonomics, 3D printing technology and its applications, with distinct characteristics of 3D-printing-empowered rehabilitation. This major is oriented towards the social demand for talents, positions itself based in the Central Plains and radiating across the country, and cultivates applied talents with good ideological and moral character, excellent professional knowledge, strong practical ability, and high comprehensive quality in the field of rehabilitation engineering for society.

Core Courses：Rehabilitation Medicine, Human-Computer Interaction Technology, Human-assisted Rehabilitation Devices, Intelligent Assistive Devices and Their Applications, Control and Signal Sources of Human-assisted Devices, Principles of Single-Chip Microcomputers and Embedded Systems, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Fundamentals of Mechanical Design, and Ergonomics.