Automobile specialty group was established in 1952 and it is one of the specialty groups with the longest history. At present, the specialty group is based on the two industries of traffic transportation and equipment manufacturing and oriented towards “Modern Service Industry” and “Advanced Manufacturing Industry”. The school sets up 7 higher vocational specialties of automobile detection and maintenance technology, automobile technology with new energy, automotive intelligent technology, automobile manufacturing and test technology, automotive electronic technology, automobile technology service and marketing and intelligent robot technology, which covers the whole industry chain and post group in new energy automobile, design and manufacture of intelligent connected vehicles and traditional automobiles, marketing sales, operation and management, detection maintenance and technology service. The specialty group has transported more than 20,000 technical and skillful talents in the field of automobiles and cultivated more than 200 items of the major teaching and research results at the national and provincial levelfor the society over the past 70 years. Besides, the school has served the technology of automobile industry, enterprises and academies for thousands of times. The training number of automobile technology personnel is nearly 50,000 persons/times, which is highly evaluated by the society and industry. The specialty group becomes the major base for the talent cultivation of western automotive technology and skill.

The School of Automobile Engineering successively carries out the cooperative education with Volkswagen, Toyota, Benz, Ford, Peugeot Citroën, BYD, Geely, Shaanxi Automobile Group Co, Ltd, XCMG, Lixiang and other global famous automobile companies to realize the university-enterprise cooperation mode of “Cooperative joint construction, cooperative education, cooperative employment and cooperative development” by the method of setting “Brand Order Class”. The School of Automobile Engineering is chosen as the excellent demonstration institution (a total of 4 in the country) of Sino-Germany Automotive Electromechanical Cooperation Project (SAVAGE) by the Ministry of Education. The school sets up 6 training centers of Volkswagen, Toyota, Ford, Geely, Sino-Germany (Benz, Porsche and Audi) and Peugeot Citroën, 34 training rooms, 5 simulation training rooms, 10 productive training areas, 360 sets of professional teaching equipment and 620 operation stations. The total value of the equipment is RMB 35million. The area of the training center reaches 12000 square meters. The training center possesses a large number of the teaching and training equipment with modernization. The school relies on the automotive technical service center to carry out the automotive technical breakthrough, technical training and professional automobile construction consultation service for the whole country.

The School of Automobile Engineering possesses a team of double-position teaching staff with meticulous scholarly spirit, reasonable structure, excellent level and full-time and part-time combination, an innovation team ofinnovativeeducation teaching at the nation level and a team for the ideological and political teaching of national course. The school sets up 6 teaching and research offices. At present, there are 47 teachers, including 9 professors, 21 associate professors, 5 senior engineers, 41 doctoral and master degree candidates. Rigor and pragmatic academic style and strong academic atmosphere cultivate a batch of academic elites and skillful masters. Now there are 2 ministerial professional leaders, 1 provincial “Special Support Plan” teaching master, 5 provincial teaching masters and 20 automobile industry experts.

In recent years, the School of Automobile Engineering has relied on profound professional accumulation, first-class faculty strength and deep university-enterprise cooperation to promote the connotation construction, formulate the first-class major and build the path for brand development. It is successively determined as “Training Engineering Base of National Technical Shortage Talent Cultivation”, “Central Finance Supporting Construction Training Base”, “National Automobile Major Training Base”, “National University-Enterprise Joint Construction Productive Training Base”, “National Automotive Vocational Education Faculty Training Base”, “Assessment Office of Provincial Training for Professional Skill Level Certificate in the Professional Field of National 1+X Automobile”, “Shaanxi Province Automotive Vocational Education Backbone Teacher Training Base”, Shaanxi Province Pioneering Group for Teachers’ Morality and Shaanxi Province Pioneering Group of Education System. The results for the education and teaching are fruitful and the advantages of the talent cultivation quality are obvious. The school won the Second Prize for 1 item of National Education and Teaching Results, Special Prize for 1 item, First Prize for 2 items and Second Prize for 1 item of Shaanxi Provincial Senior Education and Teaching Results, 3 items of the Ministry of Transport Wufu—Zhenhua Vocational Education Teaching Prize, 2 items of Shaanxi Province Huangyanpei Vocational Education and the First Prize for 1 item of Shaanxi Province Counselor Vocational Competence Competition.

The School of Automobile Engineering has 1 national ideological and political demonstration course, 1 national online quality course, 4 Shaanxi Provincial online quality courses and 3 Shaanxi Provincial vocational education high-quality continuing education courses; The school has participated in the construction of 2 national professional teaching resources banks; One professional teaching resource bank in Shaanxi Province has been established by the school; Teachers of the school have played the major role in editing 5 national planning textbooks; The school has received 9 awards of the first and second prizes of excellent teaching materials of higher education institutions in Shaanxi Province; More than 60 vertical and horizontal research projects have been hosted and completed by the teachers of the school; More than 400 papers have been published in domestic and foreign journals, including more than 50 papers indexed by SCI, EI, ISTP and CSCD and more than 120 papers of core journals. In addition, more than 60 textbooks which are compiled by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Transport have been edited by the teachers of the school. They have participated in or undertaken more than 100 teaching and research projects such as the National Science Foundation, the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, the Department of Transportation of Shaanxi Province and the Department of Education of Shaanxi Province. Students of the school have won the first, second and third prizes in national or Shaanxi higher vocational School skills competition, Internet Plus Double Innovation Competition and other competitions; The employment rate of students remains above 96%; The student vocational qualification certificate acquisition rate has reached 100%; The brand automobile order class has been accounted for nearly 40% and it features a three-certificate certification system of “graduation certificate” + “vocational qualification certificate” + “brand automobile certification certificate”. The quality of the graduates of the school has been widely praised by employers.