Undergraduate: Amend the curriculum plan for undergraduate students. Complete the self-evaluation for the National Undergraduate Education Evaluation. Successfully apply to the project of MOOC text book writing and teaching video producing. Successfully apply to two “flipping classroom” project: “Production and Operation Management” and “Database Management System”. Completed the application of teaching reform projects.

The school was set up in Tangshan, grew up in Emei, and expanded in Chengdu. At present, it has a complete education system from the undergraduate education, to graduate education students and then to post-doctoral education. There are 5 undergraduate programs:

1. Transportation Engineering,

2. Traffic Engineering,

3. Safety Engineering,

4. Logistics Engineering,

5. Logistics Management

among which, Transportation and Traffic Engineering are national characteristic majors. The top-level discipline the school depends on, Transportation Engineering, maintains number one in the major evaluation of Ministry of Education.

Transportation Engineering

The transportation major has a long history in Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), which can be traced back to the 1930s and 1940s. From 1937 to 1946, the school set up three departments, one of which was the Railway Management Department. This was the beginning of the transportation major.

Due to historical reasons, the development of major has been interrupted several times. In the early days of liberation, the school was renamed Tangshan Railway Institute. In 1956, Department of Railway Transportation was established. The corresponding railway transportation major was the predecessor of the transportation major. In 1972, the school moved to Emei and was renamed SWJTU. In 1985, Department of Railway Transportation was renamed Department of Transportation Engineering. The content of railway transportation major has expanded. In the mid-1990s, the original railway transportation major was renamed the transportation major. In 2009, the direction of urban rail transit was added. In 2016, the major was transferred to the Emei campus of SWJTU for special education. A professional school model of "two places and two directions" was formed in which Chengdu mainly studied railway transportation and Emei mainly studied urban rail transportation.

At present, the first-level discipline transportation engineering of the transportation major has been ranked first in the country for many consecutive years, and the second-level discipline transportation planning and management is a key discipline of the former Ministry of Railways, ranking one of the best in the country.

After long-term theoretical exploration and teaching reform practice, the transportation major has formed a perfect teaching system with reasonable teaching plans, substantial teaching content, complete teaching processes, and scientific teaching management. The major has strong faculty force. There are 52 full-time teachers in the major, including 1 professor selected to“Ten Thousand Talent Program”, 1 national teaching teacher, 1 Sichuan academic leader, 1 winner of “Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award”, 2 winners of “Zhan Tianyou Youth Award”, 2 winners of “Mao Yisheng Railway Science and Technology Award”, 1 expert with outstanding contributions in the Ministry of Railways, 1 PhD of Sichuan Province who has made outstanding contributions, 1 winner of the Locomotive Medal from the Ministry of Railways , 1 top-notch talent in science and technology of the Ministry of Railways, 1 winner of “Huo Yingdong Outstanding Young Teacher Award”. The transportation major has 33 teachers with associate professor and professor titles, which is accounting for 63.5%, and 42 teachers with doctoral degrees, which account for 80.8%. The proportion of teachers with doctoral degrees is increasing year by year.

The major has trained more than 7,000 undergraduate graduates and more than 2,000 graduate students. The ratio of talent demand to the number of graduates has been maintained at a high ratio. The one-time signing rate is 100%, which has been widely recognized by employers and society.

The transportation major has undertaken a total of more than 300 national, provincial and ministerial level projects, and published more than 1,000 papers in academic journals and conferences in the world. Relying on the national key disciplines of transportation engineering, the comprehensive transportation intelligence and comprehensive transportation big data national scientific research and innovation platform, the transportation major has established a multi-level, three-dimensional, and all-round high-quality teaching resource system，forming a domestic "ten in one" leading transportation professional talent training highland.

After years of unremitting efforts and hard work of several generations of transporters, the transportation profession has become a first-class professional talent training base, scientific research base, achievement transformation base, senior technical and managerial training base, international talent training and academic exchange base. It has realized the continuous improvement of the quality of talent training and has an important influence in the same field all over the world.

Traffic Engineering

The Department of Traffic Engineering was established based on the railway transportation major of Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU).In 1982, SWJTU took the lead to submit the application for the new major, traffic engineering, to Ministry of Higher Education. In 1985, the application was formally approved and SWJTU started to enroll undergraduate and graduate students of traffic engineering major. SWJTU became one of the first three universities in China to establish the major of traffic engineering. In 1986, doctoral students were officially recruited. A complete talent training system for undergraduates, master and doctoral students has been formed. In 2008, the traffic engineering major in our university was selected as the Featured Major of Sichuan Province. In 2009, the major was selected as the National Featured Major, and the Transportation Experiment Center in our university was selected as the National Demonstration Center. In 2010, the faculty team of the Department of Transportation Engineering was selected as a national faculty team. In 2011, Professor Luo Xia won the "National Teacher" award.

The Department of Transportation Engineering currently has 26 faculty members, including 6 professors, 17 associate professors, and 3 lecturers. They have been granted various scientific research projects and achieved good results in both teaching and research.

So far, this major has 2 national golden courses and received 2 national teaching achievement awards. There are more than 200 students in this major, and about 60 students graduate from this department every year. In the past three years, the employment rate of students remained at around 95%.The main employers of students are graduate schools, state-owned enterprises, and the military. The traffic engineering major ranks among the top in all kinds of evaluation performed by the Ministry of Education. Traffic engineering is regarded as one of the best majors of our university.

Safety Engineering

In the mid-1980s, our school began to engage in ergonomics and safety system engineering research related to transportation. In 1994, undergraduates started to be recruited. In June 1999, the "Safety Engineering Major" and " Institute of Ergonomics" of the School of Economics and Management were placed under the School of Transportation. In 2013, safety engineering was selected as a pilot program for national "Excellent Engineer Training” program. The transportation discipline of the School of Transportation and Logistics, where the safety engineering major is located, ranks first in the country. Relying on the multi-level and high-quality teaching resources and facilities, such as the “National Teaching Team” and the National Experimental and Teaching Demonstration Center established by the college, our department continues to promote the teaching and education quality.

There are currently 16 full-time faculty members in the safety engineering major, including 3 professors, 6 associate professors, 7 lecturers. Among them, there are 3 doctoral supervisors, 11 master supervisors, and 93.8% of the teachers have doctoral degrees. More than half of them have overseas study or research experience, and this proportion is increasing year by year. At present, the full-time teachers include 1 member of the Ministry of Education Safety Science and Engineering Teaching Evaluation Committee, 1 Tang Lixin Outstanding Scholar, 2 Sichuan Academic and Technical Leader Candidates, and 3 members of Sichuan Public Security Technology and Safety Engineering Teaching Evaluation Committee, 1 member of "100 Young Researchers" of Sichuan Province, 1 winner of the Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Railways, 1 winner of Science and Technology Award of China Railway Corporation, 1 winner of the China Construction Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, 2 members selected into the Sichuan Production Safety Expert Group, 1 first-level safety evaluator, and 5 second-level safety evaluators.

In terms of scientific research, the faculty members of the Department of Safety Engineering actively participate in scientific research and academic exchanges. In the past five years, they have completed the projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the 13th Five-Year Key Research and Development Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and a total of 143 provincial and ministerial research projects. They have published academic papers in Safety Science, Accident Analysis & Prevention, Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Fire Safety Journal and other internationally renowned journals in the field of safety engineering, as well as outstanding Chinese journals such as China Safety Science Journal. A group of well-known professors hold major positions in major domestic safety related academic organizations, industry associations, and government expert advisory groups, including China Disaster Defense Society, China Architecture Society, Public Safety Society, Rail Transit Operation and Safety Society, Sichuan Disaster Defense Association, etc. At the same time, teachers in this department pay attention to serving regional economic development, and have provided consultations on traffic safety planning and subway operation safety development in Chengdu, Shenzhen, Fuzhou and other cities.

Department of Logistics Management

The Department of Logistics Management aims to serve major national development needs, meet the needs of regional economic and social development, and support the high-quality development of the logistics industry. SWJTU is one of the earliest universities in China to develop and establish logistics management majors. In 2006, the Department of Logistics Management was established. In 2008, the logistics management major was officially approved by the Ministry of Education. After nearly two decades of development, a comprehensive talent training system featuring complex transportation and logistics project management has been formed. The ranking of the logistics management major has always been in the first class of the country. The department is committed to cultivating compound, innovative, and application-oriented high-level talents who can engage in analysis, planning, and integration in the field of complex logistics project management.

There are 14 full-time teachers in the Department of Logistics Management, including 4 professors, 4 associate professors and 6 lecturers. There are 4 doctoral supervisors and 11 master supervisors. 85% of the teachers have obtained a doctorate degree, and 91% of the teachers have overseas study and research experience.3 teachers are members of the Education Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education. The logistics management major has a faculty team with excellent ethics and international perspectives.

The faculty members have obtained over 20 key Research and Development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Social Science Foundation of China. The funding from provincial and ministerial agencies, and logistics enterprise amounted to more than 10 million yuan. The faculty has published nearly 100 papers on SCI indexed journals such as Transportation Research Part A-F. The faculty members have carried out extensive and in-depth research work for the domestic logistics industry. A group of well-known professors such as He Juan and Jian Ming hold major positions in academic organizations, industry associations, and expert pools for government, including China Supply Chain Finance Association, Logistics Experts of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Economic Association and Chengdu Science and Technology Advisory Group. At the same time, faculty members in this department focus on serving regional economic development and have provided consulting services on logistics planning and the development of logistics enterprises in cities such as Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming, Mianyang, Yibin, Luzhou, and Ziyang.

Department of Logistics Engineering

Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) is one of the first universities in China to construct and develop logistics majors. In 1994, relying on the major of transportation planning and management, the School of Transportation and Logistics (STL) began to recruit and train graduate students in the field of logistics engineering. In 2001, the Department of Logistics Engineering was formally established. In 2003, majoring of logistics engineering for undergraduates officially started. In 2004, it began to recruit master and doctoral students majoring in logistics engineering.

At present, the logistics engineering major is the Featured Major of Sichuan Province. It has been selected as the Excellent Engineer Program of the Ministry of Education. The major has been ranked as one of the best in our country over the past few years. The department currently has a Logistics Center Model Laboratory and Logistics Core Process Laboratory, Automatic Sorting and Intelligent Stacking Laboratory, Intelligent Logistics Big Data Laboratory and other national experiment and teaching platforms.

Currently, the Department of Logistics Engineering has 20 teachers, including 4 professors, 8 associate professors, and 8 lecturers. Among them, there are 19 teachers with doctoral degrees, accounting for 95%. There are 5 doctoral supervisors and 12 master supervisors. Nearly half of the teachers have overseas study and research experience. One third of the teachers have practical working experience in enterprises, design institutes, and government agencies. The research field involves transportation engineering, management science and engineering, information engineering, mathematics, and mechanical engineering. This makes this major have the remarkable multi-discipline characteristic.

The Department of Logistics Engineering focuses on scientific research. In the past 5 years, faculty members have obtained 2 General Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 4 Youth Program of National Social Science Foundation of China, as well as more than 10 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects from the Ministry of Education, China Railway Corporation, and Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province. The annual per capita scientific research funding is more than 100,000 yuan.