Vehicle engineering is a provincial major with advantages; "Automobile Theory" and "Automobile Testing Basis" were rated as provincial-level excellent courses, and "Automobile Structure" was rated as school-level excellent courses. Many people won the xihua university Speech Contest Award, Excellent Teacher Award and Excellent Young Teacher Award. The Department of Vehicle Power Engineering, majoring in thermal energy and power engineering (automobile engine), was awarded a master's degree in "Power Machinery and Engineering". All teachers 1 1 person, including professors 1 person, 2 associate professors, senior experimenters 1 person and 7 lecturers. There are 1 doctor, and 2 doctors are studying.
Two courses, such as automobile structure and engine principle, were rated as excellent courses at the school level. Many people won prizes in the Young Teachers' Speech Contest. The automobile traffic experimental center was formerly the laboratory of agricultural mechanization department of Sichuan Agricultural Machinery College, which was founded in 1960. 1983 was renamed as the Central Laboratory of Automotive Engineering Department of Sichuan University of Technology; 1999 was renamed as the Central Laboratory of Automobile and Traffic Engineering Department of Sichuan University of Technology. In 2004, Sichuan University of Technology and chengdu normal university jointly established the present xihua university, which was officially renamed the Experimental Center of the School of Transportation and Automobile Engineering.
The experimental center consists of six professional laboratories, 1 computer laboratory and 1 college students' scientific and technological innovation laboratory. The laboratory area is 8 1 10㎡, 830 instruments and equipment, with a value of12.95 million yuan, and 28 sets of various teaching and laboratory management software. It has undertaken the teaching tasks of experiment, practice and design of six undergraduate courses, such as vehicle engineering, thermal energy and power engineering (automobile engine), transportation, automobile service engineering, traffic engineering and logistics management, as well as the experimental teaching of many public courses for the whole school. At the same time, the laboratory is open to the whole school and provides open experiments. There are 6 1 experimental courses and 206 experimental projects in each laboratory of the center, with an average of 372 1800 students' experimental hours.
The experimental center has 8 full-time teaching administrators (1 professor and 2 senior experimenters/associate researchers) and 16 part-time teaching and research personnel (4 professors, 4 associate professors/senior engineers/senior experimenters and 7 lecturers/engineers/experimenters).
The goal of the experiment center: based on the automobile and engine structure, featuring the bench test, road test and bench test of vehicle performance, to cultivate talents for social hot industries such as vehicle engineering (automobile), automobile engine, transportation, logistics management, automobile service engineering, used car evaluation, traffic accident technical appraisal, etc.