Our Faculty
Vehicle Engineering Departmentcurrently has 47 teachers, including 9 professors, 14 associate professors, 17 lecturers, 2 senior engineers, and 5 engineers. The proportion of teachers with a Ph.D. degree is 90%, including 8 doctoral supervisors and 18 master supervisors.Among the teachers, 2 experts obtained special allowances from the State Council, 1experts obtained won the support by Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation of the Ministry of Education, 2experts obtained"Talent Project in the New Century" of the Ministry of Communications,1 experts obtained"Wu Fu-Zhen Hua Transportation Young Teacher Award" from the Ministry of Communications, 1 experts obtained"May 1st Labor Medal" of Shaanxi Province, 1 experts obtained"San Qin Scholars" of Shaanxi Province, 1 leader of the Shaanxi Youth Innovation Team, 1 expert of the "Thousand Talents Program" of Shaanxi Province, and 2 Young Science and Technology Innovation of Shaanxi Province, 1 leading talent in innovation and entrepreneurship at the provincial level, which has formed a team of teachers led by well-known professors and scholars with young and middle-aged doctors at home and abroad.
CPC Party-building work
The Party Branch of the Vehicle Engineering Department was established in 1977. There are currently 30 party members. The party-building work is carried out under the leadership and guidance of the party committee of the School of Automobile Engineering. The Party Branch focuses on the seven goals of educating party members, managing party members, supervising party members, organizing teachers and students, publicizing teachers and students, cohesive teachers and students, and serving teachers and students. And the Party Branch efforts to transform the organizational resources of the grass-roots party organizations into resources for promoting scientific research innovation, organizational advantages into promoting teaching innovation advantages, and organizational vitality into driving force for the development of the Vehicle Engineering Department, and efforts to build the party organization into a leading bridgehead leading the entire Vehicle Engineering Department. The Party Branch of Vehicle Engineering Department has successively won honors such as the Model Branch of the Party Building in Shaanxi Province and the Excellent Party Branch of Chang'an University.
Historical contribution
Chang'an University is one of the earliest schools in China to establish the specialty of Vehicle Engineering in 1951. It has the right to confer a master's degree in 1981 and a doctoral degree in 1993 and has a postdoctoral research station in 1998. It has established training systems for senior automotive professionals ranging from undergraduate, master, doctorate to postdoctoral. And it successfully developed the first special chassis for buses, the first sleeper bus, the first highway bus, the first commercial vehicle electric eddy current retarder, the first automobile ABS non-disintegration test bench, and the first indoor self-driving car test bench. Chang'an University has made great contributions to the absolute advantage of our country's independent brand commercial vehicles in the domestic and foreign markets and is known as the "Huangpu Military Academy" in the field of commercial vehicles.
Achievements
Vehicle Engineering in Chang'an University is the first batch of national first-class specialties in 2019,a characteristic national specialty in 2010, the first-class specialty in Shaanxi Province in 2017, a Shaanxi characteristic specialty, and a Shaanxi Province comprehensive reform pilot specialty in 2013. It has a national teaching team, a Huang Danian-style teacher team of the Ministry of Education, and a Shaanxi province teaching team. It is the vice-chairman unit of the National Vehicle Engineering Teaching Steering Committee, the chairman unit of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, the vice-chairman unit of the China Highway and Transportation Society, and the chairman unit of the Smart Shared Mobility Working Committee of China SAE, and the chairman unit of the Shaanxi Society of Automotive Engineers. It has the only comprehensive automobile performance test ground in Chinese universities and has three key scientific research platforms at the provincial and ministerial level, including "Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Transportation New Energy Development, Application and Automobile Energy Saving","Key Laboratory of Automobile Transportation Safety Technology", "Shaanxi Provincial Road Traffic Detection and Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center". It has established the Shaanxi Province virtual simulation experimental teaching center of "Vehicle and Power Engineering", a provincial experimental teaching demonstration center of "Vehicle Engineering", "Commercial Vehicle Application and Manufacturing" Shaanxi Province talent training model innovation experimental zone, "Commercial Vehicle Engineering Technology Research Center", Shaanxi Province "Four Subjects and One Joint" engineering technology research center, Shaanxi Province "Energy Saving and New Energy Vehicle Youth Innovation Team", Shaanxi Province "Energy Saving and New Energy Vehicle Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center", "Chang'an University-Shaanxi Automobile Group Co., Ltd. Engineering Practice Education Center".
Teaching and Education
In recent years, Vehicle Engineering Department has adhered to the concept of comprehensive education and has achieved fruitful results in education and teaching. It has completed two national virtual simulation teaching projects, including the "Intelligent Networked Vehicle Safety Distance Monitoring and Anti-collision Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Project" and the "Vehicle Transportation Safety Virtual Simulation Experimental Project". It has the "Automotive Design" Shaanxi Provincial excellent course and the "Automotive Theory" Shaanxi Province excellent resource sharing course, "Automotive Theory" Shaanxi Province offline first-class course.It undertook more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial education and teaching reform research projects, including the national new engineering research and practice project "Exploration and Practice in the Construction of New Automotive Engineering Specialties, Driven by Industrial Reform", and the research on higher education teaching reform in Shaanxi Province key research projects "Research on "Automotive Manufacturing 2025" Compound Talent Training Systems Driven by Intelligent Connectivity Innovation" and "Exploration and Practice of Compound Automotive Talent Training Systems Driven by Intelligent Connectivity and New Energy Innovation" and so on.It has successively won the second prize of the National Education and Teaching Achievement Award, the first prize of Shaanxi Province Higher Education and Teaching Achievement Award, the second prize of Shaanxi Province Higher Education and Teaching Achievement Award, and the first prize of Chang'an University Teaching Achievement Award. The project "Relying on the advantages of the automotive specialty to create a characteristic campus culture—the exploration and practice of the Chang'an University Automotive Culture Festival" won the second prize of the 7th National University Campus Culture Construction Excellent Achievement Award.
Scientific research
Vehicle Engineering Department focuses on vehicle CAD/CAE, Human-Vehicle-Road system dynamics, vehicle and road traffic safety technology, vehicle control technology and other traditional advantages, and researches on commercial vehicle electronic control system development and control characteristics test and theory,traffic accident analysis and reproduction technology, passenger vehicle interior comfort research, commercial vehicle structure optimization design, and reliable design methods, etc.
At the same time, it keeps up with the technological change direction of the new trends of vehicle electrification, intelligence,networking, and sharing, and actively meets the social service needs of countries, regions, industries, and enterprises, and expands emerging research fields around the direction of new energy vehicles and intelligent network vehicles, in key technologies for distributed drive battery electric passenger vehicles, key technologies for plug-in/extended-range hybrid electricvehicles, testing technologies for electric vehicles and intelligent network vehicles, key technologies for unmanned vehicles, active and passive safety technologies for vehicles, new energy vehicle technology, new energy vehicle life cycle evaluation and multi-objective optimization have formed a stable scientific research team. The faculty team has presided over dozens of national scientific research projects such as the National Key R&D Program, National "863" Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc., and more than 40 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, including the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Transport, and Shaanxi Province,and more than 60 projects enterprise commissioned projects, with a total scientific research funding of about 100 million yuan. It won two prizes for the second level of National Science and Technology Progress Award as the first completer, one prize for the second lever of National Science and Technology Progress Awards as the second completer, three prizes for the firstlevel of Shaanxi Province Science and Technology Progress as the first completer, and 1 prize for the second level of the Ministry of Public Security Science and Technology Progress.More than 400 academic papers of various types have been published, and more than 200 papers have been collected by the three major international search institutions (SCI, EI, ISTP). Many technologies have been applied by enterprises and have achieved huge economic benefits.