The College actively meets the major strategic needs of the country, strengthens the innovation platform and team building, participates in many major national special tasks such as high score, large aircraft, Beidou, Ji Liang, etc., and plays a role in the fields of space control platform, distributed SAR, adjacent space, civil aircraft, aero-engines, etc., and its industry influence has been greatly enhanced. The college has established research platforms for micro-nano satellite overall design, large civil aircraft overall and aerodynamics, near-space aerostat overall, structural strength, advanced avionics, aircraft control and simulation, intelligent photoelectricity, aero-engine, man-machine environment, air-ground integrated flight test, navigation signal processing and integrated design, space flexibility control, distributed space system technology, system engineering and management. , with the aviation industry, China Commercial Aircraft, China Aerospace, Aerospace Science and Technology, Aerospace Science and Technology Cooperation.

Based on the concept of "openness, equality, cooperation and enjoyment", the college has carried out educational and scientific research cooperation and academic exchanges with many famous foreign universities and scientific research institutions, forming a unique international school-running pattern. Drawing lessons from the internationally accepted aerospace higher education model, the College has cooperated with the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the University of Toronto, Canada, such as joint training of graduate students, undergraduate students and graduate students, and developed a variety of characteristic projects. Relying on the Sino-Russian long-range wide-body passenger aircraft cooperation project, the Institute established the Sino-Russian Joint Research Institute in conjunction with Moscow Aeronautical Institute, Comac of China, Comac of China, United Aviation Manufacturing Group of Russia and other universities and enterprises, and carried out dual undergraduate and dual master's programs.

Adhering to the spirit of "being the first" and "serving the country in the air", all the teachers and students of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Shanghai Jiaotong University have worked hard, constantly strived for self-improvement, focused on characteristics, sought breakthroughs, enhanced connotations and sought development, and made great progress in various undertakings. With the development vision of creating an internationally renowned and domestic first-class aerospace academy, the College will give full play to the advantages of high-level comprehensive universities and interdisciplinary innovation platforms, adhere to connotation development, innovation breakthrough, value guidance and sentiment cultivation, meet the major strategic needs of the country, run an international school well, cultivate first-class talents with "world vision and feelings for home and country" and be able to "integrate the past and design the future", forge the brand of Jiaotong University and get out of the first-class characteristics of Jiaotong University.