Professional brief introduction
Vehicle Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University is an important specialty of Bachelor degree, which is a crossing subject between the first class of Mechanical Engineering and the second class of Vehicle Application Engineering. The vehicle engineering specialty has long history in Southwest Jiaotong University and it can go back to 1919. At that time, Tangshan Technical college of State Jiaotong University, the previous Southwest Jiaotong University, abbreviated as “Tangshan Jiaotong University”, established the department of mechanical engineering and set up two special groups of mechanism building and rolling stock in order to meet the demands of mechanical qualified professionals in mining-metallurgy machinery and mining transportation equipment (rolling stock), and during the first term, sixty-six students were recruited. Subsequently, the vehicle engineering specialty gained well development, especially in the last twenty years.
In 1986, vehicle engineering specialty became one of the specialties in the first batch to award doctorates in China.
In 1991, the vehicle engineering specialty was confirmed as the experiment specialty of reform in education of the undergraduate course by Ministry of Railways.
In 1992, the vehicle engineering specialty was confirmed as the national-level key specialties by Ministry of Education.
In 1995, the rolling stock specialty is confirmed as the experiment specialty of reform in education of the undergraduate course by Ministry of Railways and takes the lead of making the plan of training according to the big class mode in the universities of national railway.
In 1996, it was confirmed as the experiment forms of educational reform of “research and practice of the professional personnel training scheme of machinery and systematical reform of teaching courses” of the State and Ministry of Railways, faced 21st century.
In 2002, it was confirmed as the mechanical bachelor degree personnel training foundation of Sichuan Province. Meanwhile it was confirmed as the demonstration centre of basic experiment teaching of the machinery of Sichuan Province.
With the development of more than 80 years, the vehicle engineering specialty has an integrated training system from undergraduate, graduate student to the adult education. The specialty involves the vehicle field of the track mainly include professional directions of locomotive, rail transit vehicle, urban transit vehicle, etc. The vehicle engineering and urban transit vehicles are the two second disciplines which can award doctorates, masters and even have mobile stations for the post-doctors. Now there are 505 undergraduates and more than 90 graduate students in the University.
This specialty trains senior engineers and technicians with initiative spirit and practice ability which possesses design theory, making knowledge, using ability of the vehicle engineering and can be engaged in such respects as design making, scientific research and development, operation and management of vehicle of the railway, highway and urban rail transit, etc.
Professional History
Established in the early years of the Republic of China
The vehicle engineering specialty has long history in Southwest Jiaotong University and it can go back to 1919. At that time, Tangshan Technical college of State Jiaotong University, the previous Southwest Jiaotong University, abbreviated as “Tangshan Jiaotong University”, established the department of mechanical engineering and set up two special groups of mechanism building and rolling stock in order to meet the demands of mechanical qualified professionals in mining-metallurgy machinery and mining transportation equipment (rolling stock) after establishing the civil engineering and mining and metallurgy specialty for 24 years. During the first term, Sixty-six students were recruited of first. After two years, 1921, the department of mechanical engineering of the Tangshan technical college was adjusted to the Nan Yang technical college of State Jiaotong University (the previous Shanghai Jiaotong University).
With the establishment of new China, the cradle of the senior technicians of Chinese rolling stock arises at the historic moment.
After liberation of the old China, according to the state plan, Tangshan Jiaotong University belongs to Ministry of Railways of military committee of China's revolution, and then renamed as the Tangshan railway institute. With the efforts of representatives' of our famous rolling stock professors such as Sun zhusheng, Mao jiaxun, a batch of patriotic returned students abroad in 1940s, the rolling stock specialty was established firstly at home on the basis of keeping the original steam locomotive specialty, and enrolled new students formally in 1949, recruited two-year educational system trainings and railway and four-year educational system undergraduates of steam locomotive specialty and rolling stock specialty.
In 1952, steam locomotive and rolling stock were combined into a single unit, and renamed as the railway and transport mechanical specialty, and even cancel recruiting two-year educational system training students. From 1956 to 1965, steam locomotive and railway vehicle specialty were separated again, and meanwhile altered the educational system to five-year. In order to meet the demands of teachers for specialty development, in February 1955, the first batch of Russian experts ?????????????? of Moscow railway institute and professor ?????of ????railway institute came to the school to teach and begin to foster the professional graduate students of rolling stock. They trained first batch of domestic specialized graduate student. Later some teachers graduated from this specialty and leave for teaching here such as Shen Zhiyun, Yan juanmao, etc., were sent to the railway institute of the former Soviet Union to study and then got back to the department to teach again. Eighteen undergraduates of rolling stock, 10 graduate students altogether were trained during this time, adding up to one thousand nearly, including a group of foreign students who were trained for Republic of Vietnam.
In 1972, the school moved to Emei in Sichuan province, and renamed as Southwest Jiaotong University, and began to recruit three-year educational system students in the same time. Meanwhile, with the quick development of railway in our country and traction power reform in the world, diesel locomotive and electric locomotive progressively begin to replace the steam locomotive, and the diesel locomotive specialty and electric locomotive specialty were established in the university, and the steam locomotive specialty was cancelled at the same time. In order to adapt to the fast development of diesel locomotive in the railway of our country at that time, the university has set up the locomotive diesel engine specialty in 1974, and began to enroll students in the same time.
Spring breeze blows. Old-line specialty carries out a great plan.
The spring breeze of reform and opening-up has brought the rapid developing opportunity of rolling stock. When our country recovered the college entrance examination in 1977, this specialty recruited students in the whole nation and recruited undergraduate students of diesel locomotive, rolling stock and locomotive diesel engine. In 1983, these specialties were separated from the mechanical engineering department and construct the rolling stock engineering department. In 1985, some teachers working in this specialty have founded the rolling stock research institute, and were engaged in scientific research, and which was the first rolling stock research institute in the congener colleges of our country. In 1986, this specialty became the first academic subject of granting for doctoral degrees. In middle period of the 90's last century, according to requirement of the big kind of cultivating person of ability of the nation religion committee and the adjustment plan of setup of the college specialty, inhere specialties have changed into railway locomotive and rolling stock, and turned over to the vehicle engineering department, and have been taken as the emphatic academic subject of national-level at the same time. In 1993, Southwest Jiaotong University founded the traction power station key laboratory which is only one in the railway traffic trade on the foundation of rolling stock research institute, and cross academic subject of the vehicle engineering and vehicle application engineering at the same time, which belong to the emphatic academic subject of national-level in the university.
This specialty has become one of higher popularity home and abroad with the effort of the old generation, and cultivates some experts and scholar who are domestic and overseas notability such as rolling stock expert professor Shen Zhiyun, Chinese Academy of Science and Engineering member, and professor Yan Juanmao, first crowd of doctorial student tutor in the whole nation, and professor Sun Xiang, the previous president of Southwest Jiaotong University. There are five “Chang Jiang River specially engages the professor” in the university and four of them came from this specialty. Professor Li Fu, expert of rolling stock, who is famous in our country systematic leader of this branch of academic subject and a doctor from Germany, is the first one that awards this credit, as well as the first scholar that awards this credit in Sichuan province.
The specialty characteristic
Specialty intension characteristic—The equipment of mass transit transport
Subjects quality characteristic—The technology carrier subjects
Cultivate person of ability characteristic—Compound mould technology person of ability
The development course of the vehicle engineering specialty is the portrayal of China railway and the revolution of higher education, many professional persons of ability had been cultivated for the nation in the last 80 years, and in the subject build has been gained the rapid advance. On the foundation that keeps traditional superiority, specialty involving face is widened step by step, and it has contained all traditional railway locomotive vehicle, subway vehicle, light rail vehicle, high-speed trains and motor train-set and modern equipment of mass transit transport, etc. At the present, the person of ability cultivates from the single undergraduate course change into contain undergraduate course, Master, doctor and postdoctoral student cultivating system. Since the opening reform, we have gained the rapid advance on person of ability aspect cultivate, scientific research, course installation, content of courses, transformation of education, teaching method and the means etc, and formed characteristics of this specialty at home. Chiefly show to following several aspects:
Specialty intension characteristic—The equipment of mass transit transport
Tradition locomotive, passenger and freight car, subway vehicle are contained to this specialty, and also covered light rail vehicle, high-speed trains and modern equipment of mass transit transport. Along with constantly going deep into of our country opening reform, the traffic and transportation has become the bottle neck of restriction our country national economy further developing. In multitudinous traffic and transportation methods, Superiorities such as big transport capacity, high speed, saving energy and environmental protection etc., make the rail way become the continual developing " green traffic method " acknowledged by countries of the world. The railway transportation of our country can not fill the needs of the transport capacity; the railway ministry laid down the development plan in 2003, pointing out that Chinese railway’s development in world is the quickest nation at present. Meanwhile, in the modern city traffic, the automobile has become the major cause of traffic jam, and the air pollution of 70% comes from the tail gas of automobile, and the city track transportation developing with high speed. This specialty faces excellent opportunity to develop. Compared with other vehicle, several directions of this specialty are all built on the foundation of wheel rail direction; there are essential differences from other vehicle. The Southwest Jiaotong University has several generation researches on wheel and rail relation, it possesses the abundant theory research foundation. In our country, it has the only locomotive vehicle rolls in the vibration laboratory which is research on wheel rail relation and locomotive vehicle dynamics—Traction Power State Key Laboratory. The Southwest Jiaotong University is the only college in our country at this specialty, which contained theory research and person of ability cultivates and experiment equipment. It has made prominent contribution in the development of track traffic for China.
Subjects quality characteristic—The technology carrier subjects
Classifying according to the subject, this subject belongs to the Mechanical Engineering. But the subject of locomotive vehicle covered many others such as material, electric, computer communication, network message, traffic and transportation, circuit engineering etc. The technology advance of this specialty can not part from these subjects, and they also getting improve along with the advance of this specialty. According to the 11th Five-Year Plan, railway ministry will builds the passenger transport special railway line 9800km at the speed of 200km/h. The existence locomotive vehicle can not satisfy the needs. A new generation motor train-set will use a series of new technology for the fist time used at home such as new material, exchange technology, network control and online APT system and the no dregs entire railway roadbeds etc. Except this specialty, it has been put forward the higher requirement to the correlation subjects. The development of Southwest Jiaotong University has proved that this specialty development is along with the railway’s development, and the scientific research of this subject promotes other subjects improvement. Obviously, this subject possesses the technology carrier characteristic.
The Features of talent cultivation——Compound type technician
This specialty is famous for pursuing studies strictly and keeping pace with the times. Person of ability that cultivates already can be engaged in the design manufacturing of vehicle, and can be engaged in again the operation management of vehicle, and still can take on the administration leader of enterprise. The strong engineering course background makes them work rigorously, and the research objects with complicated and difficult make them everything grasps the overall situation and coordinates the relationship each side. The work environment to study the object forces them have the reason thought of system engineering. The specialty teaching link of correlation has formed the cultivating characteristic of versatile talent.
About 50% of the technology backbone and headship of internal profession industry come from our university. In the scientific research aspect, the university has taken charge of and participated in almost all great scientific research items, and made the huge contribution in the development for the China railway cause, and been prestigious at home and abroad at all times. In middle period of the 1950s, our national locomotive vehicle began moving towards the road of independent design, and the major engineers and technicians of almost all research, design and correlation are the teachers of Tang Shan Railway College and the students who graduate from Tang Shan Railway College in 1951-1955. In order to improve the steam locomotive efficiency, professor Sun Zhusheng has put forward the new theory on the foundation of large research, and has given rise to the huge economic benefit, therefore, he is also commented to nation advanced worker in 1956. At the same time, Chinese passenger and freight train turned the model, at the guidance of professor Mao Jiaxun, vehicle professional teacher and student with the factory together have carried on a large number of research trials, and developed our country first batch passenger and freight train in possession of intellectual property right, the foundation has been established in the development for the China railway. Hereafter, Chinese first diesel locomotive and electric locomotive etc, have condensed the research and the trial achievements of this specialty. After the reform and opening-up, this specialty associated with ministry of railways and Puzhen rolling stock works and developed double deck passenger cars at the leadership of professor Sun Zhusheng and professor Mao Jiaxun, and awarded the first Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress in 1993; this specialty associated with ministry of railways and Qishuyan rolling stock works and developed first DF11's mould in our country diesel locomotive at a high speed at the leadership of professor Sun Xiang, and awarded the first Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress in 1993, and he awarded nationwide May lst labor prize medal. Professor Shen Zhiyun who graduated from this specialty and is the expert of railroad rolling stock is only Chinese Academy of Science and Engineering member in the railroad industry, and presided the design of locomotives and rolling stock on the roller testing rig, and awarded the first Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress in 1999. There are five “ Chang Jiang River specially engages the professor” in the university and four of them came from this specialty, in which professor Zhai Wanming awarded the first Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress in 2005 for “rail bound —vehicle coupling theoretic”. Superintendents of Rolling Stock Research Institute of China Railway Academy of Sciences, Sifang rolling stock & railway and Dalian Locomotive Research Institute came from this specialty, a large number of technology backbones also are graduates of specialty. From 1997, if there is not support and the participation of this specialty researchers and graduates, it almost is too far behind to catch up with 5 times improving speed greatly in China. The leader of China Railway Ministry sighs with emotion more than once “If there are not the graduates from rolling stock specialty of Southwest Jiaotong University, it very hard resembles the today of China railway!”
Major advantage
Strong academic lead - rich teaching and research
Abundant School experience - A strong foundation and comprehensive experimental conditions
Rich experience teachers - High quality students
Close links with enterprises -Strong demand for Students and employments
After the long-time accumulation?development and continuous progress, this major is unique in our country nowadays . Its Advantages have become more apparent than ever.
1. A lead in strong academic
The locomotives and vehicles engineering and transporting application of engineering disciplines are state key disciplines. The class 1 discipline, Traffic Engineering which contains transporting application of engineering is ranked number one in the continuous four years (assessed by ministry of education). The class 1 discipline, Mechanical Engineering which contains locomotives and vehicles engineering is ranked the number 13, which is the top-ranking in the congener profession in China. Since 1950, Professor Sun Zhusheng—director of the locomotives Steering Committee and Professor Mao Jiaxun—director of the vehicles Steering Committee, all of the commission members have come from our major. In addition, Professor Sun Zhusheng is the first batch of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. Lead by the strong discipline, level of Undergraduate teaching is in leading position in the congener major in China. The major has reached many kinds of number 1 since founded 80 years ago: such as the first batch of the doctorial programs?the first Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering in this major?the first “Changjiang Scholar " Chair Professor. In China, the university has got the first State Key Laboratory, only one of the all universities which have the key disciplines locomotives and vehicles engineering.
2. The great teaching and research
In the recent five years, we have completed nearly 20 projects of state and province-level research, teaching and teaching reform. We have been awarded 16 teaching achievements, including 2 state teaching achievements. In terms of research, we have presided and completed more than 100 national and provincial-and ministerial-level research projects. Besides, we have presided over more than 300 other correlation issues. We have won the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award and other prizes at provincial and ministerial levels for many times. Especially, The Railway Vehicle Roller Test Rig and Railway Vehicle-track Coupling Dynamics Research and Engineering Applications, which we have presided, twice received first prize for scientific and technological progress, the top 10 of Annual Scientific and Technological advances of Chinese universities. We have published more than 500 Papers, five monographs. In national professional training materials, nearly 80% of them come from our university. Especially the«vehicles engineering», compiled by Professor Yan Juanmao, won the first prizes of national award for outstanding teaching material in 1999.
3. Abundant school experience
This major was established 80 years ago, we accumulated a rich set of teaching experience in a unique in China today. The chairman of the National locomotives and vehicles Steering Committee who is the highest authority in the field of teaching comes from our major. Graduation design in the professional peer appraisal is always on the top. So far, we have brought up more than 3,000 undergraduate students and more than 400 graduate students. They made great contribution to China railway development. At present, the leader of the major, Professor Li Fu, graduated from the famous Aachen Industry of Technology University in Germany in the early 1990s, has more than 10 years experiences of study, work and teaching, which will provide favorable conditions for the further development of the major.
4. The powerful sustentation of foundation and the comprehensive experiment conditions
Excellent national engineering teaching base of basal machinery courses, and of Mechanics courses, provincial teaching demonstration centre of machinery basic experiment and training base for college engineering graduates, state-class curriculum "machinery design", province-level curriculum "machinery principle", "machine drawing" and so on support our foundation education. Otherwise, the modern industry training centre and state-level traction driving force laboratory and some province-level and headquarter-level laboratories in campus are also excellent for training and teaching. Both two teaching fruits ("to Integrate high grade resource , put refining stratagem, build high-level national teaching base of engineering courses” and “to build graduate study and engineering practice system and cultivate graduate ability of practice and innovation”) got successful with national blue ribbon and some provincial awards, which are also strong evidence for our education.
The national unique laboratory specially engaging in study of wheel track relation and locomotive rolling and vibration, the national unique initiative hanging laboratory of locomotive, the unique large-scale 150 vehicle train braking fixation experiment in Chinese campus and a series of experiment equipment constitute our main body of teaching experiment. The unique state-level laboratory of railway industry-driving force laboratory and other province-level laboratories such as teratology laboratory are our reliable guarantee for engineering talents.
5. Excellent faculty
The faculty of over 40 (9 doctor tutor, 4 Changjiang Scholars, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 8 young experts with outstanding contribution, 5 leaders of learning and technology in Sichuan Province, 2 with foreign Ph. Degree) gained the innovative team of Ministry of Education and the national science and technology respectively in 2005.
Professor Shen Zhiyun of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering is always engaged in this major. The academician as the leader, Changjiang Scholars and Lecture Professors as the mainstay, and other outstanding teachers are the guarantee for excellent teaching quality. Some textbooks such as “Vehicle engineering” edited by our faculty are always the classic ones of this mayor in China.
6. The student of high diathesis
Influenced by what old one generation taught by personal example as well as verbal instruction, this specialty is noted for pursuing religious studies at home. Persisting in strengthening measure to cultivate student to widen the field of vision and the innovation thought ability in the running a school course of many years , what makes graduate possess the stronger ability of independently engaging in scientific research and design . Among the technology backbone and the technology leader of profession industry at home, people who start in my school are more than 50%. About 60% of technology leaders who come from more than 30 locomotive and vehicle manufacturing at home are graduates of our specialty. Among other universities and research department being related with the locomotive and vehicle specialty, the graduates of this specialty have occupied the fairly big proportion.
7. Contact closely with the enterprise
A professor of this specialty is the consultant of internal multitudinous locomotive vehicle factories. Most of these factories are also practice bases of this specialty, and the senior managements and technical instructors of factory are the part-time teachers of specialty. The factory has still established concentrated item scholarship and the stipend for students. The teachers of school cooperate with factories to research and development new product, and solve some difficult problems of the settlement locomotive vehicle design and manufacture, and train the technology persons of ability of factory. Long-term production , study ,research and cooperation with our country locomotive vehicle enterprise, The close together contact between our country locomotive vehicle enterprise and this specialty and multitudinous schoolfellows take on important post in our country locomotive vehicle enterprise is one big superiority of we run a school .
8 new students and the requirement of employment is vigorous.
Now the China railway is developed very rapidly, and this makes people concern. On the other hand, Owing to the fact that the internal city traffic problem is serious increasingly and the consciousness that people protect environment consciousness raising gradually, what the railway traffic of city will be understood inside several years gets the quicker development. What it is along with our country market constantly is open, and the market competition is more severity, and develops that the technology research and development and innovation is the only way of enterprise development. This professional graduate have the wide knowledge, the higher synthetically diathesis, and the strong ability in specialty, and can suit the needs of society economy development and railway construction striding across type development. People with ability demand keeps at 5:1 with graduate's quantity near several years, the first signing the pact rate reaches 100%. These professional graduates have been extensively recognized of unit and society. Especially among all graduates who come from this specialty, there are some success people, for example the chief engineer of China Northern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry (Group) Corporation and China Southern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry (Group) Corporation, the factory director Na Liming of CNR ChangChun Railway Vehicles Co.,Ltd which is the biggest railway passenger train manufacture factory of the whole nation, and the factory director Guo Bingqiang of CSR Ziyang Locomotive Co.,Ltd which is the biggest internal combustion engine manufacture factory of the whole nation, and so on, they are the models that students learned and they are also the people with ability of high quality who are cultivated by this specialty. Because many outstanding persons of ability have been cultivated to this specialty, and this specialty has the higher obtaining employment rate and a perfect harmony good development foreground. Many students register for examination a specialty study. This supply more sources of students for this specialty. |
