Founded in 2002 by merging the former Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Aircraft Manufacturing Engineering, the School of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest and oldest schools at NPU. It has its own history which includes the former Department of Aircraft Manufacturing founded in 1979 which consisted of two dominant specialties, the airplane technics and aeroengine, both founded in 1952. Based on Aeronautics & Astronautics, the school is dedicated to the national economy, and focuses on developing advanced and distinctive manufacturing technics, intelligent assembly and Micro-nano-technology. The school is determined to continue building a high-level research component to make contributions to national industrialization and manufacturing information. There are five departments and three laboratory teaching centers in the school. There is one national teaching center of mechanical fundamental courses, one national fundamental experiment teaching center of mechanical engineering, and two provincial and ministerial key laboratories; the Contemporary Design and Integrated Manufacturing Technology and the Micro and Nano Electro-mechanical Systems Center. In addition, there are three practice bases for undergraduate innovation, two laboratories for postgraduate innovation, and six provincial and eight international joint research institutes. Since the “Tenth Five-year Plan”, the School has achieved 38 Provincial and Ministerial Awards for Scientific Progress and 11 teaching achievements. In recent years, the school has earned two scientific progress awards at the national level, and one of them was elected in 2006 as “China’s top ten scientific and technological progress in higher education.” It has also achieved two national teaching achievements, five state first-class disciplines, forming the only mechanical fundamental first-class disciplines group in China. Students’ technology work has won three championships in the National Robotics Competition and one in Mechanical Creative Design.