兰州交通大学机电工程学院（原兰州铁道学院机械系）始创于1958年，历史渊源深厚，由原唐山铁道学院（现西南交通大学）成建制地配备师资和教学条件，设内燃机车和铁道车辆两个本科专业并于当年招生。1979年，机械制造工艺与设备专业开始招生。1986年，取得机车车辆硕士学位授予权。2001年，撤系建院更名为兰州铁道学院机电与动力工程学院（兰院党发[2001]7号）；2003年，兰州铁道学院更名为兰州交通大学，学院同时更名为兰州交通大学机电工程学院（兰交办发[2003]123号）。2005年，取得车辆工程、载运工具运用工程两个博士点。2010年，机械工程一级学科博士点获批。2012年，机械工程博士后科研流动站批建。

目前，学院已发展成为拥有博士后科研流动站以及博士、硕士、学士学位授予权的二级学院，是交通运输工程国家一流学科突破工程建设单位之一。六十七年来，学院立足甘肃，服务铁路，面向全国，取得了以国家自然科学二等奖、国家科技进步二等奖和国家技术发明三等奖为代表的一批高水平的科研成果。2007年，学院与日本福井大学签署了学术交流协议及备忘录并选派优秀本科生赴日本福井大学学习。学院累计培养输出本专科、硕士、博士毕业生2.9万余名，近五年，毕业生就业情况良好，70%以上的毕业生到轨道交通行业企业工作。

学院现有在职教职工191人，专职教师154人，其中具有正高级职称教师32人，具有副高级职称教师89人，具有中级职称教师34人，具有博士学位教师93人。博导31人，硕导113人，双聘院士1人，柔性引进教授4人。百千万人才工程国家级人选1人，全国模范教师1人，甘肃省“飞天学者”讲座教授3人，甘肃省“飞天学者”特聘教授2人，甘肃省“飞天学者”青年学者2人，甘肃省高等学校教学名师5人，甘肃省“333”人才工程人选、“555”人才工程人选、甘肃省领军人才人选等高层次人才15人。学院在校学生总数为4611人，其中本科生3763人，硕士研究生745人，博士研究生103人。

学院设有车辆工程、机械设计制造及其自动化、测控技术与仪器、机械电子工程、能源与动力工程、工业工程6个本科专业，形成了轨道交通特色专业群；机械工程、载运工具运用工程2个博士点；机械工程、动力工程及工程热物理、载运工具运用工程、机械（专业学位）、能源动力（专业学位）5个硕士点。车辆工程、机械设计制造及其自动化2个专业为国家级一流本科专业建设点，能源与动力工程专业为省级一流本科专业建设点，测控技术与仪器为甘肃省高等学校特色专业，车辆工程、测控技术与仪器2个专业已通过工程教育专业认证。机械工程学科在教育部第四轮学科评估被评为B-类学科，于2019年入选甘肃省“双一流”特色建设工程项目，机械工程学科、动力工程及工程热物理学科为省级重点学科。

学科主要研究方向是轨道交通系统动力学与控制、铁道车辆热工理论与技术、高速列车空气动力学及环境效应、轨道交通装备新材料与工程应用、智能装备技术与绿色制造等。依托的科研平台主要包括国家绿色镀膜技术与装备工程技术研究中心、铁道车辆热工教育部重点实验室、甘肃省轨道交通装备系统动力学与可靠性重点实验室、甘肃省轨道交通服役环境与智能运维重点实验室、甘肃省轨道交通力学运用工程实验室、甘肃省轨道交通装备新技术行业技术中心,参与共建的国家铁路局铁路行业创新基地有：中车青岛四方机车车辆股份有限公司“高速磁浮技术装备铁路行业工程研究中心”、中车长春轨道客车股份有限公司“更高速动车组系统集成铁路行业工程研究中心”、中南大学“空气动力学铁路行业重点实验室”。学院拥有教学科研实验室90个，实验室建筑面积达24000平方米，合作共建的校企教学实习基地21家，支撑学校成为“国家轨道交通装备行业产教融合共同体”首批成员单位。“十三五”期间，学院承担国家级、省部级及横向科研课题220项，其中有科技部先进轨道交通科技重大专项子项目、国家自然科学基金重大项目子项目；发表论文650多篇；获得省级科技进步奖12项。学院为学校工程学学科进入国际高水平学科行列做出了突出贡献，子学科贡献率排名第一。

学院继续秉承“厚德敬业，创新求是”的院训，坚持发扬铁路“道钉”精神，按照“价值引领、服务需求、问题导向、传承创新、示范带动”的原则，促进学院高质量发展，支撑学校高水平大学和一流学科建设。将办学定位于服务轨道交通行业和现代装备制造业，适应行业国际化需要。坚持立德树人，重点实施一流学科和特色学科建设，依托师资队伍建设、平台建设和科研产出的成果支撑本科专业建设，努力培养适应国家发展需要，具有社会责任感、创新精神和国际视野，德、智、体、美、劳全面发展的应用型高级工程技术人才。

（数据截止时间：2025年12月30日）

Introduction to the School of Mechanical Engineering

Lanzhou Jiaotong University, School of Mechanical Engineering (former Department of Mechanical of Lanzhou Railway Institute) was established in 1958 with a profound history, through the combination of departments and sections from two Chinese railway institutes: Tangshan Railway Institute (the present Southwest Jiaotong University ) and Beijing Railway Institute (the present Beijing Jiaotong University ). Two undergraduate majors of Diesel Locomotives and Railway Vehicles were set up and enrolled in that year. In 1979, the major of Mechanical Manufacturing Process and Equipment began to admit new students, and in 1986, It was granted the right to confer master’s degrees in rolling stock.In 2001, the name was changed to Lanzhou Railway Institute of Electromechanical and Power Engineering thorough the withdrawal of the former departments and the establishment of the new institutes (Party Committee Office of Lanzhou Railway Institute [2001]No. 7). In 2003, Lanzhou Railway Institute was renamed to Lanzhou Jiaotong University, the School renamed as Mechanical Engineering at the same time(Lanzhou Jiaotong University [2003] No. 123).In 2005, two doctoral programs in Vehicle Engineering and Carrier Utilization Engineering were obtained, and in 2010, the first-level doctoral program in Mechanical Engineering was approved. In 2012, the post-doctoral research station in Mechanical Engineering was approved.

At present, the School has developed into a second-level school with a postdoctoral research station as well as the right to confer doctoral, master's and bachelor's degrees, and is one of the construction units of the breakthrough project of national first-class disciplines in transportation engineering. Based in Gansu, serving the railroads and facing the whole country, the School has achieved a number of high-level scientific research achievements represented by the Second Prize of the National Natural Science, the Second Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress and the Third Prize of the National Technological Invention over the past sixty-seven years. In 2007, the School signed an academic exchange agreement and memorandum of understanding with University of Fukui in Japan and selected outstanding undergraduates to study at University of Fukui .The school has cultivated and natured over 29,000 graduates of bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree. In the past five years, the employment of graduates is good, and more than 70% of them worked for enterprises in the rail transportation industry.

The School boasts a faculty of 191 members, among whom 154 are on the regular staff, including 32 full professors, 89 associate professors, and 34 lecturers and engineers. Among these, 93 hold a Doctor of Philosophy degree. There are 31 doctoral supervisors, 113 master's supervisors, 1 dual-hire academician, and 4 externally hired professors.1 national candidate for the project of millions of talents, 1 national model teacher, 3 Gansu Province “Flying Scholars”chair professors, 2 Gansu Province“Flying Scholars”special professors , 2 Gansu Province“Flying Scholars”young scholar, 5 Gansu Province higher education teaching masters , 15 talents of Gansu Province“333”talent project candidates,“555”talent project candidates, Gansu Province leading talent candidates.The total number of students enrolled in the school is 4,611, including 3,763 undergraduates, 745 master's degree candidates and 105 doctoral degree candidates.

The School has 6 undergraduate majors: Vehicle Engineering, Mechanical Design and Manufacturing and its Automation, Measurement and Control Technology and Instrumentation, Mechatronics Engineering, Energy and Power Engineering, and Industrial Engineering, these 6 majors has formed a group of rail transportation specialties; 2 doctoral degree programs in Mechanical Engineering, and Carrier Utilization Engineering; and 5 master's degree programs in Mechanical Engineering, Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, and Carrier Utilization Engineering, Mechanical (Professional Degree), Energy Power (Professional Degree), and Energy and Power Engineering. There are 5 master's degree programs.Vehicle Engineering and Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation are two majors designated as national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites. Energy and Power Engineering for the provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, Measurement and Control Technology and Instrumentation for Gansu Province higher education characteristics of the specialty, Vehicle Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology and Instrumentation of the two majors have passed the professional certification of engineering education.The Mechanical Engineering discipline was rated as a Class B discipline in the fourth round of disciplinary assessment by the Ministry of Education. In 2019, the major was selected as Gansu Province “double first-class”characteristics of the construction project. Mechanical Engineering disciplines, Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics are provincial key disciplines.

The main research directions of the discipline are dynamics and control of rail transportation systems, thermal theory and technology of railway vehicles, aerodynamics and environmental effects of high-speed trains, new materials and engineering applications of rail transportation equipment, intelligent equipment technology and green manufacturing.The scientific research platforms we mainly rely on include the National Green Coating Technology and Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center, the Key Laboratory of Railway Vehicle Thermal Engineering of the Ministry of Education, the Key Laboratory of System Dynamics and Reliability of Railway Transportation Equipment of Gansu Province, the Key Laboratory of Railway Transportation Service Environment and Intelligent Operation and Maintenance of Gansu Province, the Engineering Laboratory of Railway Transportation Mechanics Application of Gansu Province, and the Industry Technology Center of Railway Transportation Equipment New Technology of Gansu Province.The railroad industry innovation bases of the State Railway Administration are: “High-speed Magnetic Levitation Technology and Equipment Railway Industry Engineering Research Center”of Qingdao Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co. Ltd.“High-speed Magnetic Levitation Technology and Equipment Railway Industry Engineering Research Center”,“Higher Speed Rolling Stock System Integration Railway Industry Engineering Research Center”of Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. The School has 90 teaching and research laboratories covering 24,000 square meters and 21 teaching and internship bases jointly built by Lanzhou Jiaotong University and enterprises, supporting the School to become the first members of the“National Industry-Education Integration Community for Railway Transportation Equipment Industry”.During the“13th Five-Year Plan”period, the School undertook 220 national, provincial and ministerial level and horizontal scientific research projects, including the sub-projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology's Advanced Railway Transportation Science and Technology Special Project, and the sub-projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Major Projects;It published over 650 papers and won 12 Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress Awards. The Faculty has made outstanding contributions to the university's engineering discipline to enter the ranks of high-level international disciplines, and ranked first in terms of sub-discipline contribution.

The School will continue to uphold the motto of “Virtue, Dedication, Innovation and Seek Righteousness”, insist on promoting the spirit of“Nail”of the railroad, and promote the high quality development of the School in accordance with the principles of“Value Leadership, Service Demand, Problem Orientation, Inheritance and Innovation, and Demonstration and Driving”. We will promote the high-quality development of the School and support the construction of high-level universities and first-class disciplinesThe School will focus on serving the rail transportation and modern equipment manufacturing industries, and catering to the internationalization requirements of these industries. Adhering to the principle of cultivating people with moral integrity, focusing on the implementation of the construction of first-class disciplines and characteristic disciplines, relying on the results of faculty construction, platform construction and scientific research output to support the construction of undergraduate majors, and striving to cultivate applied senior engineering and technical talents who are adapted to the needs of the national development, who have a sense of social responsibility, a spirit of innovation, and an international outlook, and who have all-rounded development of morality, intellectuality, physicality, aesthetics and labor.

(As of: December 30, 2025)