The origin of the School of Transportation at Southeast University can be traced back to the Transportation Department at National Southeast University in 1921. After the development of the road engineering group of the Civil Engineering Department at National Central University and the road teaching and research group of the Civil Engineering Department at Nanjing Institute of Technology, the Transportation Department at Southeast University was established in 1989. The School of Transportation at Southeast University was established later in 1995. In 2000, Southeast University underwent a major reorganization by combining the former Nanjing Railway Medical College, the former Nanjing Transportation College, and the former Nanjing Geological School. The major disciplines from the latter two were absorbed to re-establish the new School of Transportation. At present, the School of Transportation is developing industry-academic collaboration with the Intelligent Transportation System Engineering Research Center (ITS Center) of the Ministry of Education and the Transportation Planning and Design Institute of Southeast University.
Party building leads the way. By strengthening the overall Party leadership and implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, the School of Transportation has established a dual-fusion Party building system, a school culture with disciplinary characteristics, and a wholesome political, academic, and education atmosphere to promote the high-quality development of the first-class Party building and disciplinary construction.
The school has won the Advanced Collective of National Education System title, and has been selected as one of the Benchmark Institutions of National Party Construction and the first batch of National University Practice Education Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base.
Outstanding discipline advantage. The School of Transportation has built the internationally renowned and domestically influential first-level national key discipline. A cluster of key disciplines of modern transportation engineering in the field of roadway transportation with comprehensive research focuses, distinctive characteristics,and outstanding strengths has been formed. The discipline “Transportation Engineering” shared the first place (A+ grade) in the last three rounds of the National Discipline Evaluation, and was selected into the first and second batches of the “Double First-Class Disciplines”organized by the Ministry of Education. The school has seven departments, three research centers, and two industrial institutions.
Top-notch teaching staff. The School of Transportation owns a high-level, innovation-focused academic team with both international and national power of disclosure in the field of roadway transportation. The team features fellows of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, receivers of the National Outstanding Teacher Award, and national distinguished experts. Currently, the school has 259 staff, including 204 faculty members, 78 professors, 90 associate professors, and 118 doctoral supervisors. The school also has one innovation team awarded by the Ministry of Education and two national teaching innovation teams.
Strong research capability. The School of Transportation has been leading in research areas including road-bridge-tunnel traffic infrastructure construction, operation, and maintenance, pavement structure and materials of high grade roads and long span bridges, planning and design of urban and regional integrated transportation systems,intelligent connected traffic operation control, etc. In the past two decades, the school has been awarded 15 National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards and National Technological Invention Awards.
First-class talent cultivation. The School of Transportation has cultivated a number of outstanding graduates with solidfoundation, comprehensive qualities, strong sense of responsibilities, practical skills, and innovation spirits. Many ofthem have already become the technology leaders or key administrators in the transportation industry. At present,the school has six undergraduate programs, nine second-level disciplines awarding doctoral degrees, and 12 master-level graduate programs. More than 1200 undergraduates and 1400 graduate students are enrolled in the school.