Liaoning University of Technology is a provincial university in Liaoning Province, located in Jinzhou, a historic town in western Liaoning. The school was founded in 195 1, and was originally Jinzhou Institute of Technology; 1April, 960, upgraded to Jinzhou Institute of Technology; 1June, 1992, with the approval of the State Education Commission, it was renamed Liaoning Institute of Technology; In March 2007, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was renamed Liaoning University of Technology. Before the reform of university management system, it was the only provincial undergraduate engineering college in Liaoning Province, 1993, which was listed as one of the four universities supported by the provincial government.
The school has 46 undergraduate majors, including 1 1, which belong to five disciplines: engineering, science, management, literature and society. The school has seven first-class master's degree programs: mechanical engineering, material science and engineering, control science and engineering, computer science and technology, civil engineering, transportation engineering, management science and engineering. There are 2 1 master's degree authorization points and the right to grant master's degrees with the same academic qualifications as employees; Master's degrees in engineering are awarded in nine fields, including mechanical engineering, control engineering, material engineering, vehicle engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer technology, traffic engineering and civil engineering. Material physics and chemistry is a subject approved by the provincial "first-class discipline plan"; Control theory and control engineering are provincial-level "characteristic prominent plan" disciplines; Ideological and political education is the key construction discipline of philosophy and social sciences in Liaoning Province. Control four laboratories, namely, automobile new material laboratory, automobile engineering laboratory, photovoltaic material laboratory and electric vehicle drive technology, as key laboratories in Liaoning Province; Three laboratories, including automotive materials and engineering, intelligent control theory and application, and modern manufacturing technology, are key laboratories of provincial universities. Automobile performance laboratory, material preparation laboratory, automobile new material laboratory, numerical control technology comprehensive laboratory and industrial control network laboratory are characteristic and advantageous subject laboratories established by the central and local governments in colleges and universities. Two research centers, such as automobile vibration and noise and automobile new materials, are provincial engineering technology research centers; College of Materials Science and Engineering is the training base of key disciplines graduate students in universities in Liaoning Province. College of Automobile and Transportation Engineering is the training base for talents in short supply in automobile manufacturing industry in Liaoning Province. The School of Automobile and Traffic Engineering is called "Liaoning Automobile Industry Whampoa Military Academy".