In January 2005, School of Urban Rail Transportation, the first school-company collaborative college in China, was co-founded by Shanghai University of Engineering Science and Shanghai Metro Operation Co., Ltd. (currently known as Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co., Ltd.), offering undergraduate program in Transport (Urban Rail Transit Operations Management), which is administered by the Department of Operations Management.
1) Program history
(1) The Transport (Urban Rail Transit Operations Management) Program started official enrollment in September 2005 to grant degree in engineering.
(2) National enrollment kicked off in 2010 to serve the demand for rail transit operations management personnel in the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country.
(3) In 2011, this program was approved by the Ministry of Education as a pilot program under the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” and, in the same year, approved as a key project of off-campus internship base for Shanghai municipal universities and a model project of off-campus internship base for Shanghai universities.
(4) In 2012, a complete credit system training plan was implemented to form a basic platform for transport disciplines.
(5) In 2018, with the approval of the school, the program was officially renamed as “Transport” to better support the school’s discipline and program development positioning.
2) Quality
Thanks to more than 10 years of development, this program has made great progress in personnel training, faculty building, scientific research and beyond.
(1) Shanghai’s Undergraduate Education Heights (Phase III) (2008);
(2) National-level specialized program in transport (2009);
(3) The fifth batch of Shanghai Municipal Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center under the “Experimental Teaching Center for Urban Rail Transit Operation” (2009);
(4) A pilot program under the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” of the Ministry of Education (2011);
(5) Top 10 off-campus internship base for university students in Shanghai (2011);
(6) Certified in engineering education with the Ministry of Education (2019).
(II) Program features
As a national-level specialized program, a pilot program under the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program” of the Ministry of Education, and a program under Shanghai’s Undergraduate Education Heights, this program has obtained the Professional Certification for Engineering Education from the Ministry of Education. Taking into account the needs of intelligence operations of rail transit network, and in accordance with the engineer training standards for international engineering education certification, a “3+1” school-company collaborative training model is established to cultivating “multi-functional and inter-disciplinary” professionals with high industry competitiveness, innovative capabilities and international visions. This program is centered on modern rail transit planning, design and transportation management theories and methods, with attention to the multidisciplinary integration of management, economics, statistics, safety engineering, and human factor psychology, as well as the application of advanced technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. It features the special positioning of networked and intelligent rail transit organization and safety management, and emphasizes on training students to solve complex engineering problems in the field of rail transit.
(III) Employment
Graduates are mainly employed with nationwide rail transit enterprises, railway transportation companies, transport enterprises and public institutions, etc., and engaged in advanced technical and management work such as transportation planning, transportation organization, station design, station management, dispatching command, safety management, etc., and possibly in public transport of passengers, logistics, freight transport and other fields. This program has an employment rate of 100%, and has delivered thousands of technicians and managers to nearly 20 subway operators across the country.
The perseverance in talent training has produced remarkable results. At present, more than xx graduates from the School are working for dozens of subway companies nationwide including Shanghai, many of whom are holding key technical or managerial positions in the organizations they serve.
