Shanghai college and university First-class discipline (B) “TransportEngineering"was approved in September, 2012. The discipline is based on national key discipline(under cultivation)” Transport Planning and Management”, Shanghai Municipal key discipline “Vehicle Operation Engineering” and Engineering Research Center of Shipping Simulation approved by Ministry of Education. At present, a total of nearly 30 professors and associate professors working for the discipline, many of whom are renowned in society and play an active and important role in a number of academic and industrial organizations.The discipline focuses its main research directions onshippingdevelopment strategy and planning, shipping system security and simulation, and shipping information system control.
By buildingthe national engineering centers and the key laboratories of transport industry, which are capable of undertaking basic and applied research and are closely related with the construction of China’s shipping industry and the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center, the discipline, in future, aims to achieve worldwide-recognized leadership in scientific research and talent trainingthroughinnovative and original achievements, and eventually build itself into an internationally advanced national key discipline with shipping characteristics.