College of Furniture and Industrial Design was established in September 2008 on the basis of the Department of Furniture Design from CollegeofWood Scienceand Technology and the Department of Industrial Design fromCollegeofElectronicand Mechanical Engineering. Its predecessor can be traced back to the teaching research section of Wood Machining of Department of Forest Industry set up in 1952 when NFU was founded. In 1983, based on undergraduate program of wood machining, a three-year diploma program of Furniture Design and Manufacture inChinawas set up, and followed by an undergraduate program of Furniture Design and Manufacture in December 1986 approved by State Education Commission of the People’s Republic ofChinaand State Forestry Administration. In the beginning of 1990s, the name of Furniture Design and Manufacture was first changed into Furniture and Interior Design and then to Interior and Furniture Design with the development of our furniture decoration.
The College is composed of Departments of Furniture Design, Engineering for Furniture and Wooden Products, Industrial Design, Design Technology, Central Laboratories and so on. There are 4 undergraduate programs of Design for Industrial Products, Furniture Design, Art Design for Products and Art Design for Architectural Industrial Products, 2 master degree programs of Design Arts (Design for Industrial Products and Theory) and Forest Engineering (Furniture Manufacturing and Interior Decoration),and 2 doctorate programs of Furniture Design and Engineering (a provincial key discipline) and Wood Science and Technology (Furniture and Wooden Products Technology, a national key discipline).
The College has 73 teaching and administrative staff, including 16 professors, 18 associate professors 46 teachers with doctor’s degree, 9 with the master’s degree and 9 are pursuing doctoral degrees. At present, the total number of full-time students is up to 1000.
The college has such research institutes asInstituteofFurnitureand Wooden Products, Research Center of Furniture Design, Research Center of Industrial Design,InstituteofClassical Furnitureand Padauk Crafts, Ergonomics institute, etc. The College takes charge of editing and publishing an Interior Design + Construction Magazine-national (the Journal of CIID) and participates in editing and publishing a Furniture Magazine.
In recent years, the College has undertaken nearly 60 research projects at the ministerial and provincial level, edited over 20 textbooks and published over 200 papers on influential academic periodicals at home and abroad. Meanwhile, the College takes an active role in developing academic exchanges and has established intercollegiate ties with universities and institutions of more than 9 countries and regions, including theUSA,Canada,Germany,France,Italy,Finland,Japan,South Korea,Vietnam, etc.