In 2000, based on the former Department of Traffic Information & Control Engineering and the Department of Computer Science from Xi’an Highway & Transportation University, together with the Department of Electronics & Information Engineering from the former Xi’an Institute of Engineering and the Computing Center from the former Northwest Institute of Architectural Engineering, the College of Information Engineering at Chang’an University was founded. In 2007, from the former Institute of Information Engineering’s disciplines of Electronic Science and Technology and Control Science & Engineering, and the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Institute of Architectural Engineering, a new School of Electronics and Control Engineering was reorganized. In 2022 the School of Energy and Electrical Engineering was established on the basis of the discipline of Electrical Engineering and the discipline of Power Engineering & Thermophysics from the School of Automotive Engineering. To date, the School has nearly 50 years of educational history.

The school possesses the full spectrum of Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral (and post‐doctoral) education. It offers a second‐level discipline doctoral degree authorization point in the sub‐discipline Traffic Information Engineering & Control, and the doctoral degree authorization category in professional degree of Traffic Transport. For master’s degrees, there is a first‐level discipline master’s degree authorization point in Control Science & Engineering and professional degree category in Electronic Information, and it operates a post‐doctoral research station in Transportation Engineering. Traffic Information Engineering & Control of our university is one of a sub‐disciplines under the first‐level discipline doctoral degree authorization point of Transportation Engineering, which is a national key discipline, a key supported discipline under national “Project 211”, and a discipline under the innovation platform for superior disciplines of national “Project 985”.

The School offers three undergraduate majors: Automation (including an Excellent Engineer Program), Robotics Engineering (a “New Engineering” major), and Traffic Equipment & Control Engineering. In 2025 it will add an Engineering Experimental Class (as part of the “Robotics Chang’an School Program”). The majors have distinctive disciplinary features in traffic control & management, industrial automation, robotics, industrial intelligence, and automotive electronics. Both the Automation (including Excellent Engineer Program) and Robotics Engineering majors recruit students under the Automation category. The employment rate for undergraduates is around 90%, with about 45% going on to further study; more than 50 students per year are net transfers into the majors. The Automation major was recognized in 2006 as a Shaanxi Province Brand Major, in 2009 as a Shaanxi Provincial Experimental Zone for Innovative Talent Training Models; in 2010 it was selected as a national characteristic major construction site; in 2011 approved under the “Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program”; in 2012 listed by the Ministry of Education as a national pilot major for comprehensive reform; in 2017 became a Shaanxi Province first‐class construction major; in 2019 passed Engineering Education Accreditation; in 2020 approved as a National First‐Class Undergraduate Major Construction Site.

At present, the School has 124 faculty and staff, of whom 85 are full‐time teaching faculty. Among the full‐time teaching faculty, 16 hold senior-level titles (15 professors and 1 senior engineer), and 51 hold associate-level titles (38 associate professors and 13 others). A total of 93 faculty members have doctoral degrees; there are 21 doctoral supervisors (including international student supervisors), and 61 master’s supervisors (including international student supervisors). Among them are 1 Chang’an Distinguished Professor, 1 recipient of Shaanxi Province “3‐5 Talent Engineering Program”, 3 teaching masters of Shaanxi Province, 1 outstanding teacher of Shaanxi Province. Prof. Lu Qingchang is selected for the Shaanxi Province Distinguished Youth Science Fund; Prof. Hui Fei has received the title of Shaanxi Province Young Science and Technology Star; Prof. Wang Guiping has won both first‐ and second‐class National Teaching Achievements Awards, and first‐ and special‐class Teaching Achievement Awards of Shaanxi Province. The Automation teaching team was approved as a provincial teaching team for Shaanxi Province in 2014; the teaching team for the course “Fundamentals of Automation Practice” was approved in 2021 as a provincial course‐ideology teaching team.

Since the 13th Five‐Year Plan period, the School has led over 200 projects at the national and provincial/ministerial levels; it has won a total of 39 scientific and technological awards including the second prize of the National Science & Technology Progress Award, and numerous provincial- and ministerial-level science & technology awards. Focused around areas including autonomous driving and intelligent transportation, the school possesses 5 provincial/ministerial research platforms (1. Shaanxi Province “Four-Main-Body and One-Alliance Model” Industry-University Joint Research Center for EV Charging & Discharging Technology; 2. Shaanxi Province University Engineering Research Center for Vehicle‐Road Integrated Perception & Intelligent Control; 3. Shaanxi Province Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Innovation Center; 4. Technical Research & Development Center for Automated Operations Technology in the Transport Industry; 5.Shaanxi Provincial Common Technology R&D Platform for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of Transpiration Infrastructure.) It has one international science & technology cooperation base in Xi’an and has participated in organizing more than ten high‐level international conferences, continuously producing over 400 high‐quality academic papers; obtained 414 authorized domestic/international invention patents, converted 66 research outcomes and secured more than 20 million yuan in annual research funding. In response to major national demands, it deeply participates in technological breakthroughs for major national projects such as the Hong Kong‐Zhuhai‐Macao Bridge, the Shenzhen–Zhongshan Link, the Winter Olympics smart highway, etc. It has achieved good economic and social benefits in fields such as intelligent management and control of special roads, detection and monitoring of transportation infrastructure, and vehicle–road system control.

The School has won the first prize of the National Teaching Achievements Award in higher education (postgraduate education); published over 150 academic papers in top international journals in intelligent transportation, intelligent control, etc.; received more than 50 first prizes in national competitions including the China Graduate Electronic Design Contest, Chinese Engineering Robotics Competition, China Graduate IC Innovation Competition; established four joint training/practice bases for graduate education; invited academician the European Academy of Sciences, academician of the Engineering Academy of Japan, national recognized leading talents and young talents to give over 30 graduate academic lectures; and the graduate employment rate is over 98%.

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the School adheres to the Party’s overall leadership and the socialist orientation in education; fully implements the Party’s educational policy and carries out the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education. It remains committed to the mission of nurturing talent for the Party and the country, and strives to cultivate well-rounded talents of the new era with moral integrity, intellectual ability, physical fitness, aesthetic sensibility, and a strong work ethic. Upholding the university motto of “Tough Minded, Moral Cultivation, Studiousness, Innovation” and the spirit of “Self‐improvement, Pursuit of Truth and Pragmatism, Unity and Progress, Striving for Excellence”,  the School is rooted in western China and serves the industry by focusing on undergraduate education as the mainstay, actively developing graduate education, and nurturing high‐quality innovative talents for industries and regional economic development in traffic control, intelligent manufacturing and information technology. The School has established a comprehensive talent training system covering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs, and is building a teaching and research-oriented institution featuring multidisciplinary integration and collaborative development in fields such as control science and engineering, transportation information engineering and control, and artificial intelligence.

(Data last updated in July 2025)