The School of Mechatronics and Vehicle Engineering of Chongqing Jiaotong Universityhas developed a specialty pattern featured in new energy vehicle, urban rail transit vehicle, traffic equipment design & manufacturing and traffic mechatronicswith35 years history. Currently, the School has one first-level discipline master’s degree program of Mechanical Engineering, three professional master’s degree programs and six general undergraduate disciplines. These majors include Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation (listed as the second batch of Excellent Engineers Education and Training Program of the Ministry of Education), Vehicle Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Material Shaping and Control Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Automation, Energy and Power Engineering. It has one national “first-class” program, three “first-class” majors of Chongqing Municipality, two “Featured Majors Related to Big Data Intellectualization of Chongqing Municipality”, one characteristic discipline group of Chongqing "three special action plan", two characteristic specialties of "three special action plans" in Chongqing, two provincial and ministerial talent training mode innovation experimental areas.

The School has excellent conditions for teaching andscientificresearch. Currently, it has 6 provincial/ministerial scientific research platforms and 1 experimental teaching center, which has a usable area of more than 7,000m²and a total equipment value of more than CNY 50,000,000. The School has successively set up nearly 10 off-campus practice bases in cooperation with China Chang'an Automobile Group Co., Ltd., Chongqing Machinery & Electronics Holding Group Co., Ltd., China Automobile Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Dongfeng Xiaokang,which providehigh-level platforms for discipline development and talent cultivation.With great effortsto external academic exchange and cooperation, the School founded the Chongqing Shipbuilding Industry-University-Research Association, established the “3+1” cooperative cultivation mechanism with China Chang'an Automobile Group Co., Ltd. and Chongqing Xitong Electric Co., Ltd. and established academic exchange relationships with foreign universities and research institutes including the Automobile Engineering Research Institute of RWTH Aachen University, University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC, Kettering University, Saitama Institute of Technology, Gunma University, etc.

Features in Talent Cultivation

In the background of Great National Traffic Development and “Made in China 2025”,standingin Chongqing andfacingthe entire country, the School has developed a specialty pattern featured in new energy vehicle, urban rail transit vehicle, traffic equipment design & manufacturing and traffic mechatronics. Based on the national “first-class” program, the Schoolprovides6 undergraduate programs including Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation, Vehicle Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Material Shaping and Control Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Automation and Energy and Power Engineering which are highly featured, taking the lead in Chongqingarea. The School is making great effort toenhancingthese programs into industrially distinctive programs (groups) aiming to serve economic and social development of Chongqing and even the entire country. Graduates of the School are highly reputed and accepted by the machinery and vehicle industries in Chongqing and even in the whole country.

Organizationof Teaching Departments

Specialties of the School

lMechanics

The specialty of mechanics includesfourundergraduate programs. Students are recruited by main category and cultivated under the “2+2” mode. In the fifth term, students will be diverted to majors under main categories based on their academic achievement, general performance and personal specialty:

nMechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation (National “Excellent Engineer Training Program, National First-Class Program, Chongqing Municipality First-Class Program,Featured Major Related to Big Data Intellectualization of Chongqing Municipality, Featured Major under theAction Plan for Featured Majors, Featured Disciplines and Featured Universities)

nMaterial Shaping and Control Engineering

nMechatronics Engineering (Chongqing Municipality First-Class Program, Chongqing Municipality Featured Program,Featured Major Related to Big Data Intellectualization of Chongqing Municipality)

nVehicle Engineering (Chongqing Municipality First-Class Program, Chongqing Municipality Featured Program,Featured Major under theAction Plan for Featured Majors, Featured Disciplines and Featured Universities)

lElectrical Engineering and Automation

lEnergy and Power Engineering

lMechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation (Sino-foreign cooperative schooling)

Teaching Team of the School

The School has a properly structured, coordinative and innovative teaching team. On the present faculties have 119 members, including 74 full-time teachers, 18 professors, 34 associated professors and 58 doctors, 9 provincial/ministerial talents with such titles as Chongqing BaYuscholar, chief expert of Chongqing’s rail transit vehicle field, academic and technical leader of Chongqing and the alternate, excellent middle-aged/young teacher of Chongqing’s universities as well as persons under Chongqing Municipality University Excellent Talent Support Program and Chongqing Municipality High-Level Talent Special Support Program, and 63 master tutors.

Scientific Research Achievements (in the past five years)

Undertook 18 national scientific research projects and nearly 150 provincial/ministerial projects;

Obtained 2 first prizes, 6 second prizes and 6 third prizes of scientific research awards (provincial/ministerial level or above);

Published nearly 600 high-quality academic papers, including 284 SCI and EI retrieval papers;

Obtained the authorization for 91 national patents for invention;

Published 4 monographs and 16 textbooks

Discipline Construction

Chongqing Municipality Key Discipline, “Mechanical Engineering” first-level discipline master degree program

Programs for engineering master degrees: Mechanical Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, Material Engineering

Featured Major under the Action Plan for Featured Majors, Featured Disciplines and Featured Universities: Mechanical Engineering

High-quality Curricula

Municipality-level

High-quality Video Open Class

Automobile Society & Modern Traffic Ethics

Municipality-level

High-quality graduate curricula

Vehicle Electronic Control Technology

Municipality-level

High-quality graduate curricula

Dynamics of Mechanical Systems

Municipality-level

High-quality graduate curricula

Dynamics of Vehicle Systems

Provincial/ministerial scientific research platforms

Chongqing Municipality Key Laboratory for Integration and Control of Urban Rail Transit Vehicle Systems

Chongqing Municipal Monorail Engineering Technology Research Center

Chongqing Municipality Special Vehicle Power Transmission System – Key Parts Design and Testing Engineering Technology Research Center

Chongqing Engineering Laboratory for Transportation Engineering Application Robot

Provincial/Ministerial University Talent Cultivation Mode InnovationPilotZones

Mechanical Professionals Cultivation Mode Innovation Zone

Traffic Construction and Equipment Innovation Talents Cultivation Experiment Zone

Students’ Awards in Science and Technology Competitions

Students’ participation in science and technology competitions has always been the traditional strengths of the School of Mechatronics and Vehicle Engineering. In 2019, the School organized students to participate andfinallyachieved good results in a series of international and domestic science and discipline competitions Mathematical Contest in Modeling and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Model, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, the 11^thChinese Mathematics Competitions, the 13^thSiemens Cup China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge, the 12^thZhou Peiyuan Mechanics Competition for College Students, the 2019 China Robot Competition, etc. Undergraduates of the School totally won 4 first prizes, 11 second prizes and 4 third prizes of national awards and 110 provincial/ministerial awards (190 person-times), with 51 papers published on public journals and 13 patent certificates granted.

Graduation statistics

	Initial employment rate (%)	Rate of studying abroad (&)	Enrolment rate
2019	91.02	3	17.2
2018	94.09	0.91	13.48
2017	95.44	1.22	9.59
2016	91.66	0.57	7.5

Some of the graduates have been enrolled into the following famous universities for advanced studies

University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

The University of Sydney

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Osaka University

Tianjin University

Hunan University

Xi’an Jiaotong University

Sichuan University

Chongqing University

Southwest Jiaotong University

Central South University

South China University of Technology

Jilin University

Guangxi University

Chang’an University

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics