The Department of Automotive Engineering in School of Mechanical Engineering has established the Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Electrified Mobility (in the following context, “The Center” is used for short). There are 3 full professors, 7 associate professors, one of which is the recipient of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and one of which is the recipient of Chinese Science Association Award for Young Talents and more than 80 graduate students pursuing doctorate and master degrees affiliated with the Center. The research areas mainly include vehicle dynamics and control, hydro-energy and electrified mobility equipment, intelligent chassis and autonomous driving, as well as Intelligent Connected and Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure System.
Within the past five years, orienting the significant requirement of national economics, and aligning with the national development strategy of New Energy Intelligent Connected Vehicles, the Research Center focuses on the development trend of electrified, intelligent and connected mobility equipment. The Center has committed to over 30 research projects, including National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Key Research and Development Project of China， Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China etc.. The Center has published more than 200 high standard peer-reviewed papers in the SCI/EI indexed journals all over the world, has been granted over 130 utility patents and authored/co-authored multiple academic books. The Center not only keeps great corporation with famous top universities around the world, such as USA, German, Canada, Russian, etc., students are allowed to participate visiting scholar programs every now and then, but also have strong connections with top domestic and international relevant manufactures like HW, Ford Motors, Zhongxing, Shanghai Motors, Cherry and CRRC that facilitate the transformation from academic research to real-world applications. The Center also received multiple awards from different organizations, such as First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Ministry of Education, First Prize of Invention Association for Invention and Innovation, Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of Jiangsu Province. The students of The Center who were cultivated to pursue excellence has won multiple competition too, including Silver Medal of National “Internet+” innovation and entrepreneurship competition, International Intelligent Connected Vehicle Competition, World Intelligent Driving Challenges (Canada).
The alumni of the Department of Automotive Engineering for now include more than 30 doctorate students and 200 Master students. Devoting themselves in the state-of-the-art research topics like advanced vehicle dynamics and control system, new energy vehicle, autonomous driving and artificial intelligence, over 80% of the alumni are holding core R&D and management positions in vehicles and tier one companies, artificial intelligence related companies and unicorn companies.
