Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering

1. Department Overview

The Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering was established in 2015, mainly responsible for the daily teaching and student teaching of robotics engineering undergraduate program. The undergraduate major of Robot Engineering was registered by the Ministry of Education in 2021. It is a "new engineering" major that drives the relevant traditional majors of our university to develop towards the direction of intelligence. It is selected as the leading project of First-class Undergraduate Construction of Shanghai Higher Education institutions, and will start to recruit students in September 2021. With robotics as its direction and "Made in China 2025" as its background, the major focuses on the organic integration of robotics, intelligent technology, information technology and other fields. It is a broad discipline integrating robotics, machinery, electronics, control, communication and other disciplines.

The department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering has 17 faculty members, including 3 professors (including 2 doctoral supervisors), 7 associate professors and 7 lecturers. All of them graduated from 985/211 universities, and the doctoral rate is 100%. Every teacher in the department makes unremitting efforts on their own posts, takes the construction of the department as their own responsibility, is willing to contribute, and has the courage to undertake. The department actively explores and practices, and has made some achievements and formed some methods and experiences in the aspects of moral cultivation, education and teaching reform, scientific research, high-quality personnel training and so on. At the same time, we have successively won the "May 4th youth medal (collective) in Shanghai", "Shanghai engineering technology university youth May 4th medal", "Shanghai engineering technology university outstanding young teacher", "Shanghai engineering technology university outstanding class teacher "(teacher)" and "Shanghai engineering technology university excellent speaker teachers" and a series of honorary titles.

In recent years, the teachers of the department have actively participated in the teaching reform and curriculum construction, and have successfully applied for more than 10 education and teaching research projects, including 3 industry-university-research collaborative education projects of the Ministry of Education, 2 municipal-level teaching construction projects, and published more than 30 teaching and research papers of various types, won 1 second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award and 2 first prizes of the Jiangxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Award, etc.; Presided over more than 30 projects including the National Key R&D Program, the National "863" Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan, the Shanghai Science and Technology Support Project, the Shanghai Local Capacity Building Project, and various enterprise horizontal projects. The total scientific research funding in the past three years has reached more than 20 million, and more than 30 SCI&EI indexed papers have been published. Department has won the "Second Prize of Science and Technology of China Chamber of Commerce", "Third Prize of Science and Technology Progress of Hebei Province", "Third Prize of Science and Technology of China Machinery Industry" and other scientific and technological awards.

In terms of subject competitions, the teachers of the department took the initiative to serve as scientific and creative instructors for various college students, guiding students to win the first prize of the "Challenge Cup" Shanghai College Students Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, the Shanghai College Students Creative Robot Challenge Special Award and China Graduate Electronic Design. It has won more than 20 honors, including the first prize in the Shanghai competition area, and has specially opened up a robot innovation laboratory for students to participate in various discipline competitions.

In terms of teaching conditions, the robotics engineering major has a robot training laboratory, a robot basic laboratory, a robot control laboratory, a machine vision and image processing laboratory, and a robot disassembly laboratory under the funding of the leading plan for the first-class undergraduate construction of Shanghai universities. , Robot Innovation Laboratory and a series of professional laboratories for robotics, with a total funding of more than 10 million yuan for training equipment, which can directly provide corresponding training equipment for robotics courses in the professional direction.

In terms of practice base construction, the department relies on the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor to give full play to the advantages of the robot industry cluster, and has successively signed contracts with COMAU(Shanghai) Engineering Co., Ltd., Jiangsu HUIBO Robot Technology Co., Ltd., CHINT Electric, and Shanghai Aerospace Precision Machinery Research Institute. A cooperative school-running agreement has been established and an off-campus practice base has been established, creating favorable conditions for students' practical teaching, student internships, and employment.

2. Faculty
The Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering currently has 17 full-time teachers, including 3 professors (including 2 doctoral supervisors), 7 associate professors, and 7 lecturers. All of them graduated from 985/211 universities and the doctorate rate is 100%. Each teacher in the department works tirelessly in their respective positions, takes the construction of the department as their own responsibility, is willing to contribute, and has the courage to undertake. Actively explore and practice in the aspects of moral cultivation, education and teaching reform, scientific research, and high-quality personnel training, and have achieved certain results and formed some methods and experiences.

Responsible Person：

Hua Zhang, professor, doctoral supervisor, a national talent in the new century, a national model teacher, and enjoys special allowances from the State Council. He has successively won the National Model Teacher in 2004, the National Teacher Morality Model in 2006, and the first "Top Ten Young Teachers" in Jiangxi Province in 2006. He has presided over and completed 3 national "863" plans, 1 national major basic research plan, 2 national natural science foundation projects, won 2 second prizes of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievement awards, and won 1 second prize of national teaching achievement awards, 3 first prizes of provincial and ministerial-level teaching achievement awards.

Guogua Cui, professor, doctoral supervisor, was selected as the second-level candidate of Hebei Province's "Three-Three-Three Talent Project", the 100 Outstanding Innovative Talents Support Program of Hebei Province Universities, and the Fifth Top-notch Talent Training Program of Songjiang District, Shanghai. He has won the second prize of the Hebei Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement Award, the Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, and the China Technology Market Association Golden Bridge Award. He has presided over 2 general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 project of the Torch Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and 4 scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial level.

3. Teaching Conditions/Professional Laboratory

At present, the robotics engineering major has established a robot training laboratory, a robot basic laboratory, a robot control laboratory, a machine vision and image processing laboratory, a robot disassembly and assembly laboratory, and a robot innovation laboratory under the funding of the leading plan for the first-class undergraduate construction of Shanghai universities. There are a series of professional laboratories in the direction of robotics such as the laboratory. The total cost of training equipment has reached more than 10 million yuan, which can directly provide relevant training equipment for robotics courses in robotics engineering.

The status of existing laboratories related to robotics engineering

  Multifunctional industrial robot training system ABB robot training system

Reconfigurable industrial robot training platform Delta parallel robot

Innovative experimental platform for machine vision teaching research

Robot disassembly training platform

NAO Robot and Robotic engineering related experimental equipment

4. Honor Award

The department has successively won the "Shanghai Youth May 4th Medal (collective)", "Shanghai Engineering University Youth May 4th Medal", "Shanghai Engineering University Outstanding Young Teacher", "Shanghai Engineering University Outstanding Class Teacher (Tutor)" and "Excellent lecturer of Shanghai University of Engineering and Technology" and a series of honorary titles.

Teachers of robotics engineering have won honorary titles in the past 4 years

Students of this major actively participate in various extracurricular scientific and technological activities. In recent years, they have won a number of national and provincial (ministerial)-level awards in various extracurricular scientific and technological competitions, mainly including the Shanghai Creative Robot Competition Grand Prize, World Robot Competition Champion, and National College Students. The first prize of the mechanical innovation design competition, etc., further improved the students' engineering practice ability and scientific and technological innovation ability in the science and technology competition. The department has also set up a robot innovation laboratory for students to participate in various discipline competitions. 

Robotics engineering students have won awards in science and technology competitions in the past 4 years

Shanghai Creative Robot Competition Grand Prize

World Robot Competition champion and runner-up

5. Employment prospects

The main employment fields of this major are robot research and development and application, electromechanical engineering, automation, intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence, etc. Graduates can engage in the design and manufacture, technology development, integrated application and operation management of robot-related intelligent electromechanical equipment and systems for the above fields. Work.

The robotics engineering major is oriented towards robots. Robots are not only representatives of advanced manufacturing industries, but also one of the ten key development areas proposed by "Made in China 2025". The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other three ministries and commissions also specially issued the "Robot Industry Development Plan (2016-2020)", and proposed "forming a relatively complete robot industry system" as the overall development goal of my country's robot industry during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. In the face of national policy support and enterprise transformation and upgrading, my country's robot market demand has shown explosive growth, and the market capacity has continued to expand. As the basis for supporting the future development of the robotics industry, the demand for technical talents in the robotics field has also increased sharply. Although my country's robot industry has entered a period of rapid development, the shortage of technological innovation talents that meet the needs of enterprises has always been a bottleneck that affects and restricts the development of my country's robot industry. It can be seen that there is a serious incongruity between the lack of technical talents in my country's robot industry and the huge market demand at this stage. With the continuous increase in the density, sales and operation of robots in China, and the further expansion of the application scope, it is predicted that the "hunger and thirst" situation of talents in the industry will continue in the next few years. According to research statistics, the current demand for talents in my country's robot market has reached 7.5 million, and the talent gap is 3 million. It is estimated that by 2025, the demand for talents in my country's robot market will reach 9 million, and the talent gap will be as high as 4.5 million. Therefore, in order to solve the contradiction of insufficient supply of talents in the robotics industry, the problem of cultivating innovative talents in the robotics field needs to be solved urgently.

There are many employers engaged in robotics and related industries in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta. Well-known robotics companies at home and abroad, such as KUKA, ABB, FANUC, SIASUN, and COMAU, have their headquarters or robot headquarters in Shanghai, and many more Various enterprises engaged in robot design, integration, sales and supporting services are located in all links of the industrial chain, and Shanghai has also established a robot industrial park in Baoshan District. In addition, our school is located in Songjiang District, Shanghai. Relying on the advantages of the construction of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, the robot industry has also achieved great development in Songjiang in recent years. The whole district has gathered more than 100 robot-related enterprises. The technical level of system integration and other aspects is in a leading position in the country. Through communication with the Robot Industry Alliance of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, the annual demand for robotics professionals from the companies in the alliance has reached hundreds of people. Taking this opportunity, our school has successively signed cooperation agreements with robot companies such as Comau (Shanghai) Engineering Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Huibo Robotics Co., Ltd. and established off-campus practice bases. The large demand for talents from these well-known enterprises can provide a good employment guarantee for the mechanical and electronic engineering major in our school, which is characterized by the direction of robotics.

6.Professional training objectives, graduation requirements (main/core courses)

Training objectives of robotics engineering major:

This major cultivates qualified personal qualities, occupational and labor literacy and professional ethics, strong interpersonal communication and cooperation skills, solid basic theoretical knowledge of natural science, and mastery of robotics as the core. Multi-disciplinary professional knowledge such as electronics, control, computer and communication, and basic knowledge of engineering management, with integrated thinking, engineering reasoning, problem-solving and management organization skills, can become a front-line position for robotics and related fields to engage in design and development, application research and Advanced engineering application talents with technical work in operation management and other aspects.

Graduation requirements:

Students of this major mainly study basic theories, engineering basic knowledge and professional basic knowledge, professional technology and engineering skills in mechanics, electronics, control, communication, etc., and pay attention to the cultivation of engineering practice ability and innovation ability, and meet the following training requirements:

(1) Engineering knowledge: Ability to apply mathematics, natural sciences, engineering fundamentals and expertise to solve complex robotic engineering problems.

(2) Problem analysis: Be able to apply the basic principles of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering sciences to identify, express, and analyze complex robotics engineering problems through literature research to obtain valid conclusions.

(3) Design/develop solutions: with skills in drawing, calculation, testing, basic process operations, and strong computer application capabilities, able to design solutions to complex robotic engineering problems, and design robotic systems and units that meet specific needs (components) or technological processes, and be able to reflect innovation in the design process, considering social, health, safety, legal, cultural and environmental factors.

(4) Research: Be able to conduct research on complex robotics engineering problems based on scientific principles and using scientific methods, including systematic expression, building models, designing experiments, analyzing and interpreting data, solving arguments, and obtaining reasonable and effective conclusions through information synthesis. Have the ability to comprehensively use engineering foundation, professional theory and technical means to solve problems.

(5) Use of modern tools: be able to develop, select and use appropriate technologies, resources, modern engineering tools and information technology tools for complex robotics engineering problems, including prediction and simulation of complex robotics engineering problems, and be able to understand their limitations.

(6) Engineering and Society: Be able to conduct a reasonable analysis based on the background knowledge of robotics engineering, evaluate the impact of professional engineering practices and solutions to complex robotics engineering problems on society, health, safety, law, and culture, and understand the responsibilities.

(7) Environment and sustainable development: be able to understand and evaluate the impact of professional engineering practice on complex robotics engineering problems on environmental and social sustainable development.

(8) Professional norms: have humanities and social science literacy, labor literacy, and a sense of social responsibility, be able to understand and abide by engineering professional ethics and norms in engineering practice, and fulfill responsibilities.

(9) Individuals and teams: Ability to assume the roles of individuals, team members, and leaders in teams in a multidisciplinary context.

(10) Communication: Be able to effectively communicate and communicate with industry peers and the public on complex robotics engineering issues, including writing reports and design manuscripts, making presentations, expressing clearly or responding to instructions. And have a certain international perspective, able to communicate and exchange in a cross-cultural context.

(11) Project management: understand and master the principles of engineering management and economic decision-making methods, and be able to apply them in a multidisciplinary environment.

(12) Lifelong learning: have the awareness of self-directed and lifelong learning, and have the ability to continuously learn and adapt to development.

Main disciplines and core courses and curriculum system:

Main disciplines: mechanics, mechanical engineering, control science

Core Courses: Modern engineering drawing, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Principle, Electrical technology, Electronic Technology, Fundamentals of Manufacturing Technology, Interchangeability and Technology Measurement, fundamentals of Control Theory, Robotics, Robot mechanism, hydraulic and pneumatic, machine vision and Image processing, Microcomputer principle and interface Technology, detection and sensing technology, etc.

Curriculum System: Design and Manufacturing Series Courses: Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Computational Methods, Fundamentals of Materials Science B, Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering, Modern Engineering Graphics, Interchangeability and Technical Measurement, Mechanical Principles, Fundamentals of Manufacturing Technology, Electromechanical System Design, etc.

Control Series Courses: Electrical technology, electronic Technology, Basic control theory, Circuit Analysis and Electronic Technology, Machine vision and Image processing, Robot motion control technology, mechanical and electrical System design, microcomputer principle and interface technology, mechanical and electrical transmission control, etc.

Robot series courses: Robotics, Robot Mechanism, Robot Network and Communication Technology, Robot Virtual Simulation Technology, Robot Motion Control Technology, Embedded System, Industrial Robot Performance Testing Technology, Professional Introduction, etc.