哈尔滨工程大学坐落于美丽的松花江畔——北国冰城哈尔滨市，其前身是著名的哈军工，始建于1953年。学校是211工程首批建设的全国重点大学，并进入国家985工程优势学科创新平台项目建设，设有研究生院和国家大学科技园，是我国三海一核（船舶工业、海运设备、海洋开发及核能应用）等领域做大的人才培养基地和重要的科学研究基地。
Harbin Engineering University (in short HEU, formerly Harbin Military Engineering Institute), founded in 1953, is located in Harbin, Ice City, near beautiful Songhua River. HEU is one of the first key universities in the national 211 Project (to set up 100 national key universities in 21^st century) and the key construction on the Specific Disciplines Innovation Platform (belongs to 985 project) and the first batch of key constructed universities in China having graduate school and National University Science Park. HEU has major personnel training and scientific research in the field of shipbuilding engineering, ocean exploration and nuclear energy application. 

学校占地面积126万平方米。现有博士后科研工作站13个，一级学科博士点12个，一级学科硕士点27个，本科招生专业56个。现有教职工3160人，其中院士8人，博士生导师331人，正教授395人，副教授508人。在校学生27000余人，其中本科生14000余人，研究生8000余人，留学生1200余人。
HEU covers an area of 1.26 million square meters. There are 13 post-doctor work stations, 12 doctoral first-class disciplines, 27 master’s first-class disciplines, and 56 undergraduate programs. HEU has 3160 staff, including 8 academicians, 331 doctoral tutors, 395 professors and 508 associate professors, and about 27000 students in different levels, including 14000 undergraduate students, 8000 post-graduate students and 1200 international students.

学校已精英教育为目标，打造一流的工程师、行业领军人才和科学家，教育水平和人才培养质量不断提高。近年来，学生在挑战杯大学生课外学术科技作品竞赛、亚太及全国大学生机器人电视大赛、美国国际大学生数学建模竞赛、全国大学生电子设计竞赛等国内国际各类赛事中获奖400多项。
Aiming to the elite education, HEU makes great effort on building the teams of worldwide firs-class engineers, industry leaders and scientists, and improving the high level of education, teaching and personnel qualities. In recent years, the students have awarded more than 400 prizes in the international and domestic various contests, such as the Challenge Cup Students’ Extracurricular Scientific Work Competition, Asia-Pacific and the National Students Robot TV contest, American International Mathematical Modeling Contest, National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest etc.

学校在船海核领域、水下机器人、船舶减摇、船舶动力、组合导航、水声定位、核动力仿真、大型船舶仿真验证等技术居国内领先或国际领先地位，现已成为国家舰船科学技术基础和应用研究的主力军之一，是国家发展海洋高科技的重要依托力量。
HEU has top-ranking in the fields of shipbuilding engineering and nuclear power sciences in China, such as underwater robots, ship anti-rolling, marine power, integrated navigation, underwater acoustic positioning, nuclear power simulation, simulation of large ship etc., in domestic or abroad. HEU has become national base and application research institute of the areas of naval architecture and ocean engineering.

学校设有40多个科研机构以及150多个科研和教学实验室，其中国防科技重点实验室2个，国防重点学科实验室2个，国家级学科创新引智基地3个，国家级电工电子教学基地1个，国家级实验教学示范中心6个，国家大学生文化素质教育基地1个。图书馆共有藏书295万余册。
HEU also has more than 40 scientific research national defense science and technology key laboratories, 2 key discipline laboratory of national defense, 1 national science innovation talent-exchange base and 1 national electrical and electronic teaching base, 6 state-level experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national university students’ cultural quality education base. The library has more than 2, 950, 000 books.

学校坚持国际化、开放式办学，与美国加州伯克利大学、澳大利亚悉尼大学、俄罗斯远东国立技术大学、韩国首尔大学、日本北海道大学、世界五大船级社、国际原子能机构等国际上100多所知名大学、企业和科研机构建立了深入合作关系。哈尔滨工程大学在乌克兰建有乌克兰南方师范大学孔子学院。学校是首批入选卓越工程师教育培养计划的高校，是中国政府奖学金和国家建设高水平大学公派研究生项目实施高校，设有哈尔滨工程大学HEU外国留学生奖学金、孔子学院奖学金。
Adhering to the policies of internationalization and open-running, HEU has established wide and substantial partnerships with more than 100 well-known universities and research institutions, such as California University, Berkeley (US), the University of Sydney (Australia), Far Eastern State Technical University (Russia), Seoul National University (Korea), Hokkaido University (Japan), world top five marine & offshore classification societies, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) etc. HEU has set up Confucius Institution in Ukraine Southern Normal University. HEU is one of the key universities to enter the National Excellent Engineers Plan I the first batch and also the Chinese Government Scholarship institution and CSC Scholarship for Chinese Students go-abroad, and provides HEU scholarship and Confucius Institute Scholarship for international students.