To meet China's needs for industrial construction and defense construction, Tsinghua University (hereinafter referred to as"the University") set up a number of automation-related majors in the 1950s, including theIndustrialElectrification and Automation (in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1955), Automation and Tele-mechanics (in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1955, and renamed as Automatic Control in June 1958 after being incorporated into the Department of Automatic Control), and the Specialization of Automation of Thermal Equipment in the Major of Thermal Power Equipment, as well as the later Thermal Engineering Measurement and Automatic Control (in the Department of Power Machinery in 1956).