Department of Industrial Design：

The Department of Industrial Design was approved as a master's degree award point in 2003，which can recruit both academic master and professional master on industrial design direction. The discipline of mechanical engineering has the first-level doctoral degree awarding grant, which can recruit doctoral students in the direction of industrial design. In the year of 2010, Industrial design became Jiangsu province characteristic specialty. In 2012, industrial design was awarded the key subject of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In 2013, the industrial design practice teaching center composed of industrial design laboratory was recognized as Jiangsu industrial design center by Jiangsu Economic and Social Commission. In 2016, the industrial design experiment center become Jiangsu province practice teaching center.

The department currently has 24 full-time teachers, including 3 professors, 14 associate professors and 7 young lecturers. In the past five years, students have won more than 50 famous industrial design awards at home and abroad, and over 30 industrial products by our teachers’ guidance have been adopted and put into production by enterprises. The teacher team has won 1 second prize of provincial teaching achievement and the1 first prize of school level teaching achievement. 5 textbooks published, including 1 “12 ^th Five-Year Plan textbook”of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

In the past five years, the department has undertaken more than 70 projects, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, Jiangsu Province Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project, Research Institute and Enterprise Industrial Design Project.And it has undertaken the industrial design and human-computer interaction design of multiple aircraft types. and more than 20 national and provincial industrial design awards, more than 50 academic papers published in core journals at home and abroad, and over 50 national invention patents, utility models and appearance patents. The department has carried out in-depth and extensive scientific research cooperation with famous academic institutions and designers in France, Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries.