The Vehicle Engineering program originated from the “Forestry Machinery Application and Repair” specialty established in 1957. Through various evolutionary stages, including Automotive Application Engineering, Carrier Vehicle Application Engineering, and Transportation Engineering, it began independent enrollment as the “Transportation Engineering (Vehicle Engineering)” specialization in 2002. In 2013, it received approval from the Ministry of Education to officially operate as an independent “Vehicle Engineering” program. From 2015 to 2022, the program adopted a mechanical engineering category enrollment model, transitioning to direct program-specific enrollment in 2023. The program boasts strong faculty resources and conducts experimental teaching through nationally recognized platforms: the “Undergraduate Teaching Engineering Program” Off-Campus Practice Education Base, the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, and the National Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center. With a mission to cultivate professionals for the automotive industry and serve society, it has established a diversified cultivation model that integrates industry, enterprise collaboration, disciplinary development, and professional education. This approach combines practical capability development with cooperative education, maintaining distinctive characteristics in talent development that uphold moral education as a fundamental responsibility.

The program aims to cultivate high-level engineering technical talents demonstrating comprehensive moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education development as socialist builders and successors. Graduates will possess awareness of innovation, entrepreneurship, and ecological consciousness; achieve coordinated development in knowledge, capabilities, and qualities; and exhibit humanistic literacy, social responsibility, professional ethics, communication skills, teamwork spirit, and an international perspective. Equipped with solid engineering fundamentals and capabilities for professional expertise application, they will adapt to automotive technology trends of electrification, intelligence, connectivity, and sharing, capable of analyzing and resolving complex engineering challenges in vehicle engineering. Graduates will be qualified for product design and testing, manufacturing and inspection, applied research and technical development, production organization, and operation management in vehicle engineering and related fields.