By the end of 2002 1 and1,Qingdao University of Technology had won four national science and technology awards, four outstanding scientific research achievements of universities of the Ministry of Education, two first-class science and technology awards of trade associations and three first-class science and technology awards of Shandong Province.

In April, 2022, Qingdao University of Technology won the gold medal in the Geneva International Invention Exhibition for the project "Connecting Technology of High Performance Structural Steel for Buildings".