China News Service, Jinan, September 22 (Reporter Zhao Xiao) In the laboratory of the School of Transportation and Civil Engineering of Shandong Jiaotong University, a robot is attached to a bowl-thick steel pipe and moves. The operator can check the surface condition of the steel pipe through the display screen. This is the "Key Technologies and Applications of Dynamic Perception and Digital Intelligence Evaluation and Decision-Making of Cable System Bridge Service Performance" led by Cui Fengkun, associate professor of the college.
More than a month ago, the project won the second prize of the 2025 Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Award. Relevant results have been applied in more than 70 cable system bridges inside and outside the province, generating a cumulative economic benefit of 530 million yuan.
2026 coincides with the 70th anniversary of the founding of Shandong Jiaotong University. On September 22, a research team from national key news media visited the school. Media reporters visited the school on-site to explore its achievements in integrating industry, academia and research, scientific and technological innovation, and talent training.
As one of the first batch of application-oriented universities in Shandong Province and the only undergraduate university in the province approved as a pilot unit for building a transportation powerhouse, Shandong Jiaotong University is based on industry characteristics and promotes the in-depth connection between applied scientific research and industrial development, so that scientific research results can directly serve the technological upgrading of enterprises and the transformation of local industries.
The aluminum alloy transmission shaft of heavy-duty commercial vehicles has achieved a weight reduction of 30%, and the market share of lightweight battery swap boxes for new energy commercial vehicles exceeds 60%... This is an outstanding achievement of the automotive lightweighting team led by Li Wei, dean of the School of Automotive Engineering of Shandong Jiaotong University, and has carried out more than 20 joint research projects on lightweighting technology with industry enterprises.
"The key to whether industry-university-research cooperation can be in-depth and practical lies in whether universities can truly solve the practical problems of enterprises. Only by mastering the core technologies urgently needed by the industry can we break down the barriers to cooperation and promote the efficient transformation of results." Li Wei said that in the future, the team will continue to focus on the technical difficulties of new energy commercial vehicles, get through the "last mile" of scientific and technological achievements, and help Shandong's automobile industry improve its quality.
This kind of industry-university-research innovation practice has become a common practice in Shandong Jiaotong University.
From the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge across the sea to the Dali-Ruili Railway in the southwest border, from the 80-meter-deep Jintang Undersea Tunnel of the Yongzhou-Zhou Railway to the 7,000-meter-deep "Jiaolong" manned submersible... The scientific research team and outstanding alumni of Shandong Jiaotong University have been deeply involved in the construction of many major projects, constantly breaking through key core technical problems, and allowing a number of iconic achievements to move from the laboratory to the front line of engineering and quickly transform into real productivity.
"The transportation industry has been changing and developing, but as a school named after transportation, our original intention of providing education based on transportation and relying on the industry for development has never changed since the school was founded 70 years ago." Wang Wei, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shandong Jiaotong University, said that he hopes that media reporters can have a more comprehensive understanding of the path that a university with transportation characteristics has taken in the past 70 years through on-site surveys and in-depth interviews, and feel the changes that are taking place in Shandong Jiaotong University today.
According to reports, since its establishment 70 years ago, Shandong Communications University has trained more than 340,000 outstanding talents of various types for the transportation industry, and has become an important talent training base in the transportation field in Shandong Province and even the country.
During the research trip, Shandong Jiaotong University held an unveiling ceremony for the sculpture of the first president, opened the upgraded and renovated Jinan Wuyingshan campus, and organized reporters to conduct in-depth research at the Donhe College, a Sino-Russian cooperative education institution, the "Communist Manifesto" theme museum, and the Automobile Culture Museum.
