The University established the first Department of Automation in China (originally named the Department of Industrial Automation) by combining a number of related majors, whose faculty members mainly came from two departments—the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Power Machinery. The Department of Electrical Engineering is staffed by teachers from the Teaching and Research Group of Industrial Electrification and Automation, the Teaching and Research Group of Electronics (formerly known as the Teaching and Research Group of Industrial Electronics), the Workshop of Silicon Controlled Components and Devices, and the departmentalofficeof the Department of Electrical Engineering, as well as those from other teaching and research groups; and the Department of Power Machinery is staffed by teachers from the Teaching and Research Group of Thermal Engineering Measurement and Automatic Control. When first established, the Department of Automation had about 200 faculty members (including 2 professors, 5 associate professors, 34 lecturers, and 43 teaching assistants) and 87 graduates from the class of 1970, in addition to some instructors teaching basic courses and politics. The Department of Automation began to recruit worker-farmer-soldier students in its year of establishment and enrolled 6 cohorts of students (1,264 in total) from 1970 to 1976.