广东是中国制造大省和全球重要的制造业基地，汇集了大批的机器人、电器机械、纺织服装、食品饮料、汽车、医药、造纸等制造企业。广东同时也是电子信息产业强省，汇聚了华为、中兴、腾讯、大疆创新等一批电子信息产业的国际知名企业。制造业作为我们国家国民经济的战略性、基 础性和先导性支柱产业，对于维护国家安全、促进社会就业、拉动经济增长、调整产业结构和转变发展方式具有十分重要的作用。而制造业与信息技术的深度融合，正在引发影响深远的产业变革，形成新的生产方式、产业形态、商业模式和经济增长点。身居制造业和电子信息产业的强省，广东对自动化专业人才有着强烈的内在需求。行业企业要求毕业生不仅掌握控制、电子、信息领域扎实的基础理论和专门的知识及技能，还具有在相关领域跟踪和发展新知识、新技术、新理论的能力，要求毕业生具有团队合作、交流沟通、项目管理等能力。基于广东工业大学的定位和社会经济的需求，自动化专业的培养目标为:具有社会责任感与职业道德，能够在工业自动化、智能装备、信息技术等领域从事工程设计、技术开发、科学研究和项目管理等工作的高素质创新性应用型人才。

培养目标包含以下四个子目标：

Educational Objectives

Guangdong is China's largest manufacturing province and an important global manufacturing base，A large number of robot, electronic information, electrical equipment, machinery, textiles, clothing, food, beverages, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, paper mills and other manufacturing plants have been collected. At the same time, Guangdong is also a powerful province of electronic information industry. It has brought together a number of internationally known enterprises of electronic information industry, such as HUAWEI, ZTE, Tencent, DJI-Innovations. The manufacturing industry as a national strategic, fundamental and leading pillar industry, to promote social employment, stimulating economic growth, adjusting theindustrial structure, change the mode of development and plays an important role in safeguarding national security. The deep integration of manufacturing industry and the new generation of information technology is causing far-reaching changes in industry, forming new production methods, industrial forms, business models and economic growth points. Guangdong, as a strong province of manufacturing and electronic information industry, has a strong internal demand for automation professionals。Industry requirements graduates not only master control, electronics, information theory fifield of solid and specialized knowledge and skills, but also has the capability of tracking and the development of new knowledge, new technology and new theory in related fifields, the graduates have team, communication and project management skills。

Based on the orientation of Guangdong University of Technology and the demand of social economy in Guangdong, the training objective of Automation Specialty is:

With a sense of social responsibility and professional ethics, high-quality applied innovative talents can be engaged in engineering design, technology development, scientifific research and project management in industrial automation, intelligent equipment, information technology and other fifields.

Goal 1: know industry technical standards and policies and regulations, respecting social values and

observing engineering professional standards;

Goal 2: ability to solve complex engineering projects, with systematic thinking and professional

accomplishment;

Goal 3: Good communication and coordination skills, team cooperation and leadership ability in

organizing and implementing projects;

Goal 4: Committed to lifelong learning and career development, able to adapt to the sustainable

development of technology, economy and society.