About School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control engineering

The School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University was established in 2000, tracing its origins to the Department of Railway Machinery founded in 1958. Over the decades, the school has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents in mechanical and electrical fields, earning a strong social reputation.

The school comprises the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Measurement and Control Engineering, the Department of Power and Energy Engineering, the Department of Rail Vehicle Engineering, the Department of Industrial Engineering, the Materials Science and Engineering Research Center, and the Mechanical Engineering Experiment and Engineering Training Center. With a robust faculty team of over 240 staff members, the school boasts two dual-appointed academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one talent from the National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project, two talents from the National Ten Thousand Talents Plan, one talent from the Central Military Commission Talent Program, one national-level innovation team, two Ministry of Education innovation teams, one Beijing Municipal Outstanding Teaching Team, one IEEE Fellow, two national-level young talents, eight provincial and ministerial-level young talents, two Transportation Youth Science and Technology Elites, and six Beijing Higher Education Teaching Masters.

The school focuses on intelligent manufacturing and smart equipment for talent cultivation. It offers six undergraduate programs: Mechanical Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments, Energy and Power Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Mechatronic Engineering (Sino-foreign Cooperative Education). All of these programs have been approved as national-level first-class specialty construction sites, including one national-level characteristic specialty and four programs accredited by the National Engineering Education Professional Certification. The school also hosts multiple national-level teaching and practice platforms, such as the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Mechanical Engineering, the National Engineering Practice Education Center, the National Virtual Simulation Teaching Project, and the National Demonstration Base for Professional Degree Graduate Education in Engineering.

The school actively promotes interdisciplinary integration, forming an academic ecosystem centered on mechanical engineering with multi-disciplinary collaborative development. Currently, it has two postdoctoral research stations, one first-level discipline doctoral program, one second-level discipline doctoral program, three professional doctoral degree programs, three first-level discipline master's programs, one second-level discipline master's program, and five professional master's degree programs. In the fifth round of discipline evaluation, Mechanical Engineering received a B+ rating and has consistently ranked among the top disciplines in the U.S. News World University Rankings. The Transportation Engineering discipline, which includes Vehicle Operation Engineering, has ranked first in the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects for six consecutive years. The Power Engineering and Thermal Physics and Materials Science and Engineering disciplines also rank among the top domestically and internationally.

The school is committed to scientific research in areas such as rail transportation, intelligent manufacturing, defense technology, new energy power technology, and advanced materials. It hosts eight national and provincial-level research platforms, including the National International Science and Technology Cooperation Demonstration Base, the National Accredited Laboratory for Structural Strength Testing, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, the Beijing Key Laboratory, and industry key laboratories. In the past five years, the school has won one National Special Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, two National Technology Invention Second Prizes, one National Scientific and Technological Progress First Prize, one National Scientific and Technological Progress Second Prize, and over 70 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards. The average annual research funding over the past three years has reached 300 million yuan.

The school maintains close talent cultivation and scientific research collaborations with top universities worldwide, including the University of Wollongong (Australia), the University of Michigan (USA), the National Institute of Applied Sciences (France), RWTH Aachen University (Germany), the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), the National University of Singapore, and Lancaster University. The Sino-foreign cooperative undergraduate program in Mechatronic Engineering with the University of Wollongong follows a "3+1" dual-degree model, with an average further education rate of 85% among graduates, cultivating a large number of interdisciplinary talents with international perspectives.

The school will continue to align with national development strategies and the university's goal of building a world-class university with distinctive characteristics. It aims to develop a distinctive mechanical engineering discipline cluster that matches the overall level of the university and to cultivate high-quality, innovative talents with socialist core values who meet the needs of social development, establishing itself as a first-class mechanical engineering school in China.

(Data as of December 31, 2024)