Introduction to the College of Automobile and Traffic Engineering

The College of Automobile and Traffic Engineering at Nanjing Forestry University has a professional education history of more than 60 years. It is a member unit of the Urban Transportation Planning Academic Committee of the China Urban Planning Society, an executive director unit of the Road Traffic Safety Branch of the China Safety Industry Association, a member unit of the China Road Traffic Safety Think Tank Committee, a director unit of the Dean's Branch of the China Transportation Education Research Association, an executive member unit of the Transportation School Committee of the China Highway Society, an executive director unit of the Jiangsu Society of Automotive Engineering, and an executive director unit of the Jiangsu Comprehensive Transportation Society.

The college currently has master's degree authorization points in the first level disciplines of transportation engineering (transportation planning and management, transportation information engineering and control, and transportation vehicle application engineering) and professional degree authorization points in transportation. It has 5 provincial-level graduate workstations, a national level virtual simulation experimental teaching platform, Jiangsu Province Automotive Application Engineering Practice Education Center, Nanjing Static Transportation Joint Laboratory, and multiple national and provincial level teaching and research platforms, as well as multiple research and external service institutions. Based on disciplines, the college offers four undergraduate majors: Transportation, Transportation Engineering, Vehicle Engineering, and Intelligent Vehicle Engineering. Among them, both Transportation and Transportation Engineering majors are national first-class undergraduate major construction points, core majors of key majors (transportation) in Jiangsu Province universities, and brand major construction points in Jiangsu universities, and have passed international engineering education professional certification; The Vehicle Engineering major is a first-class undergraduate major construction point in Jiangsu Province, a pilot major of the Jiangsu Province Excellent Engineer School Enterprise Alliance, and has entered the stage of international engineering education professional certification self-evaluation; The Intelligent Vehicle Engineering major is a new engineering major that will recruit undergraduate students nationwide for the first time in 2024.

The college currently has 80 faculty members, including 68 teachers. Senior professional title teachers account for 57.8%, and doctoral degree teachers account for 89.8%. There are 12 young and middle-aged scientific and technological leaders in the "333 Project" in Jiangsu Province, training objects in the "Green and Blue Project" in Jiangsu Province, and high-level talent training objects in the "Six Talent Peaks" in Jiangsu Province. The college currently has 1656 students, including 1428 undergraduate students and 228 graduate students.

The college attaches great importance to teaching quality and innovative educational models, and has established more than 20 off campus undergraduate teaching internship practice bases and graduate joint training bases. It has won the first and second prizes of Jiangsu Province's undergraduate graduation design and the Excellent Graduation Design Team Award for consecutive years, ranking among the top in the number of awards received by the school. In the past three years, students have won more than 70 national and provincial discipline competition awards, including the "Challenge Cup - Revealing the List and Leading the Way" special competition, the China Robot and Artificial Intelligence Competition's autonomous driving competition, and the National College Student Intelligent Car Competition. Their employment rate and enrollment rate are among the top in the school; College teachers have undertaken over 90 research projects, obtained over 100 authorized invention patents, published over 10 textbooks, monographs, and more than 300 academic papers.

In addition, the college has established long-term and good cooperative relationships with foreign universities such as the United States, Germany, Japan, and Singapore. Graduates from the college are spread across the country and are highly praised by employers.  

(The above data is as of April 18, 2025)