苏州工业职业技术学院是二○○三年由江苏省人民政府批准成立的公办普通高校，是江苏省示范性高职院校建设单位。其前身可追溯到成立于1946年9月的“江苏省立苏州高级工业职业学校”，是苏州最早建立的工科类职业技术学校。
Suzhou Vocational Institute of Industrial Technology (SIIT) is a state-run college approved by Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government in 2003. It is a model higher vocational technical institute in Jiangsu Province. SIIT dates back to September, 1946, when the earliest engineering vocational school in Suzhou---- Jiangsu Provincial Suzhou Senior Industrial Vocational School was founded.
学院现设有精密制造工程系、机电工程系、软件与服务外包学院、电子与通信工程系、经贸管理系、文化与艺术系、国际教育学院、思想政治教学部、体育部、继续教育学院等10个教学单位。现有30个专业，专业主要集中在机械制造、自动控制、电子信息、工商管理、文化教育和数字艺术等领域，其中，国家级重点建设专业2个，省级示范重点建设专业4个，省特色专业1个。目前，学院共有教职员工457名，全日制在校生7600余名，成人教育学生630多名。学院拥有133个独具特色的现代化实训工场、专业实验室、工程技术研发服务实体和200个校外实习基地，拥有2个国家级实训基地和2个省级实训基地，设有国家职业技能鉴定所和各类国家级、省市级教育培训、技术应用基地25个。
There are 10 teaching units in SIIT, namely: Precision Manufacturing Engineering Department, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Department, Software and Service Outsourcing College, Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Economic and Trade Management Department, the Department of Culture and Arts, the School of International Education, Ideological and Political Theory Course Training Department, Sports Department, the School of Continuing Education and Training Management Center. We offer 30 majors, focusing on mechanical manufacture, automatic control, electronic information, business administration, cultural education and digital art etc. Among these majors, there are two national key construction specialties, four provincial key construction specialties and one provincial characteristic specialty. Now, there are 457 teaching staff, around 7,600 full-time students and 630 students of adult education. We have 133 outstanding modern workshops, specialized labs, engineering R & D service groups and 200 off-campus practice bases, 2 national practical training bases, 2 provincial practical training bases. There are 25 National Professional Skills Accreditation Institutes, all kinds of national, provincial and municipal-level education and training technology bases.
作为全国仅有的29所“机械行业校企合作与人才培养优秀职业院校”之一，学院以“理事会”为合作平台，以校企合作“十百千”工程为抓手，积极开拓“政行企校”全面合作的新局面。近年来，学院与苏州市工业经济联合会、中小企业协会签订战略合作协议，与艾默生环境优化技术(苏州)有限公司、百得（苏州）电动工具有限公司、克诺尔车辆设备（苏州）有限公司等50多家世界500强企业和创元投资发展（集团）有限公司、亨通集团有限公司、苏州胜利精密制造科技股份有限公司等100多家知名民营企业建立紧密型合作关系，在引企进校、订单培养、联合办学、合作科研等多方面开展全方位多模式的合作，重点推进“订单式”培养和“厂中校”建设。2013年起，学院与创元集团、亨通集团等十余家企业合作建立了“创元学院”、“亨通学院”等企业学院，创新合作机制，推进合作深度。近五年来，学院毕业生就业率始终保持在98％以上，2012年、2014年先后两次荣获“江苏省高校毕业生就业工作先进集体”。
As one of the 29 excellent vocational colleges in school-enterprise cooperation and talents training in machinery industry, we take council as cooperation platform, school-enterprise cooperation “ShiBaiQian” project as the starting point, create a new situation about the overall cooperation among the government ,the associations, the enterprises and the college. In recent years, we have signed strategic cooperation agreements with Suzhou Federation of Industrial Economics , association for small and medium enterprises. We have established close relationship with more than 50 enterprises among world’s top 500 enterprises, such as Emerson Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd, Black and Decker (Suzhou) Electric Tool Co. Ltd., Knorr-Bremse Vehicle Equipment (Suzhou) Limited, and over 100 well-known private enterprises, such as Chuangyuan Investment and Development Group, Hengtong Group Limited, Suzhou Victory Precision Manufacturing Technology Corp. We develop all-round cooperation such as leading companies to school, order training, joint school-running, collaborative research. We focus on promoting order training and factory-in-school building. Since 2013, we have founded several Enterprise Schools such as “Chuangyuan School”, ”Hengtong School” with more than ten enterprises so as to innovate cooperation mechanism and promote the depth of cooperation. In recent 5 years, the employment ratio of our graduates keeps higher than 98％. We were awarded the Advanced Unit of the employment of graduates in Jiangsu Province.
同时，作为江苏省高等学校和谐校园单位，学院具有完善的学生“奖、贷、助、勤、补、减、免”的助学体系，并以吴文化传承基地为载体，以科技创新为重点，以学生社团建设为抓手，组织开展大量文化特色活动。学院支持鼓励学生参加各级各类技能大赛，每年有50人次以上在全国职业院校技能大赛等各级各类技能大赛中获奖，学院被评为“江苏省职业院校技能大赛特别贡献奖”和“江苏省职业院校技能大赛先进学校”。
Meanwhile, as a Provincial harmonious school, it has a perfect student-assisting system--- award, loan, assistance, work-study, supplement, reduce, exempt. Taking Wu-culture base as a carrier, focusing on innovation of science and technology, building students associations, the cultural activities are diversified. SIIT encourages students to take part in skills competitions of all levels and types. Every year more than 50 students win awards in National vocational school skills competition. Our school won the special contribution award and was honored as the advanced school in Jiangsu Province vocational skills competition.
近年来，学院全体师生员工秉承“我在乎你”的学院精神，以“与时俱进”为校训，坚持人才培养“地方性”、“应用性”和“职业性”的办学理念，围绕以人才培养为根本，“政行校联袂、师生企联合、教研用联动、学做创联贯”的办学思路，谋划了未来“三步走”发展目标，努力实现把学院建设成为“在企业有满意度、在行业有美誉度、在政府有信誉度”和“教师有尊严感、学生有自豪感、员工有成就感”专业特色鲜明的示范性高职院校的美好愿景。
Over the years, SIIT adheres to the School Philosophy “ I care about you”, follows the school motto “keeping pace with the times”, persists in the educational philosophy “ cultivating the talents’ locality, applicability and professionalism” and plans “three-step” development goals which centers on talents cultivation and school-running idea-cooperation among the government, the associations and the school; combination among teachers, students and enterprises; linkage among teaching, researching and using; coherence among learning, practicing and innovating. We are making efforts to realize the dream of becoming a model higher vocational college with distinctive major features and ultimately a college with dignified teachers, proud students and accomplished staff to satisfy the enterprise, earn reputation among associations and gain credit with the government.