河海工科大学的缘起近代实业家张謇,他是清朝末年导淮的倡议者和积极推行者。中华民国建立以后,他任农商总长,意图对淮河和大运河进行整治,以减轻苏皖水患,发展水利事业。1913年在北京成立导淮局,1914年改为全国水利局,他担任总裁兼导淮督办,后又任江苏运河督办。为了导淮,他提出“三分入海,七分入江”的建议,并组织过南通师范学校附设的测量专修科毕业生测量淮河水道。他在实行导淮水利工作过程中,感到人才缺乏,于是他和大运河沿线的 Hehai University of Technology originated from the modern industrialist Zhang Jian, who was the initiator and active promoter of the Huai River in the late Qing dynasty. After the founding of the Republic of China, he served as chief executive of the farmer, intent to rehabilitate the Huaihe and Grand Canal in order to reduce floods in Jiangsu and Anhui, the development of water conservancy. In 1913, the Huaihe River Bureau was established in Beijing and changed into the National Water Conservancy Bureau in 1914. He served as the president and director of the Huaihua Office and later supervised as the Canal of Jiangsu. In order to guide Huai, he put forward the proposal of “one-third entering into the sea and seven into the river” and organized measurement graduates attached to the Nantong Normal School to measure the Huaihe River. He was in the implementation of guide Huai water conservancy work, feel the lack of talent, so he and along the Grand Canal