Shenyang University of Technology (SUT) is an engineering oriented comprehensive university, with its subjects covering such seven areas, as engineering, science, economy, management, liberal arts, laws and philosophy. The predecessor Shenyang Mechanical and Electrical Engineering College founded in 1949 was renamed SUT in 1985, and it used to be affiliated with the State Ministry of Mechanical Industry. It has been built by the central government and the local government since 1998 and it was mainly managed by Liaoning Province. The core campus is located in the city of Shenyang, and the division Liaoyang Campus is in the city of Liaoyang. At present a new campus is being built in Shenyang Economy and Technology Developing Zone, and the core campus is going to move to the new campus in 2008.The university establishes 16 schools, 2 Teaching Departments, 1Engineering Practice Center and 1 independent college. There are 44 undergraduate programs and 18 special programs offered at SUT, and it is authorized for the conferment of and 18 special programs offered at SUT, and it is authorized for the conferment of bachelor degree, master degree and doctoral degree. 49 subjects and the fields of subject are authorized for the conferment of master degree, and one A-Lever subject and 10 B-lever subjects have the conferment of doctoral degree. The university with post doctoral research centers of Electrical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering is the cultivation institution of the graduate students of MBA. It has state level key subjects of Electrical Machinery and Electrical Apparatus, as well as Liaoning Province level key subjects of Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation, Materials Process Engineering, and Apparatus and Control Theory and control Equipment. SUT is equipped with a set of state and province level scientific research base of state technological center of rare-earth, permanent-magnet electrical machine engineering Liaoning Province technological center of wind power technology, center of wind power technology, the key labs in High-Voltage Heavy-Current & Novel Electrical Machine, the key labs in CNC Manufacturing of Complicated Curved Surface, the key labs in magnesium alloys and their forming technologies, Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the universities of Liaoning.

SUT with an enrollment of 33130, including 2306 postgraduates, 16182 undergraduates,10671 on-the-job students and 3923 students of the Engineering School of SUT (the independent college). Among its 2316 working staff,1194 are professional teachers of who are 3 academicians,37 doctor supervisor, 25 excellent young teachers of whose subject and 518 professors and vice professors. The SUT has a very strong team of teaching staff, 80% of which are holders master degrees or doctoral degrees, and 40% of which have received or are studying for doctoral degrees. There are a lot of outstanding people among the teaching staff, such as national model teachers and labour models, the achiever of the National Technology Advance Award, Director of National professional societies, national and provincial excellent science experts. Being enlisted in the National and Provincial Talent Storage Project of “one hundred, one thousand and ten thousand”, the member of the Teaching Supervisory Committee of Higher University in Ministry of Education, many excellent talents from “Famous Teacher, Excellent Talents and Subject Top Personnel at Provincial and Ministerial levels. SUT also invites a group of international famous experts and scholar as part-time professors. At present the SUT campus is composed of building space of 900,000 square meters, and the residential buildings covers 450,000 square meters. With a great attachment to the development of SUT, it has solicited a piece of land of about to build a new campus and it will be applied in 2008.

SUT has established stable and long-term collaborative relations with more than 30 foreign institutions such as Japan, German, the UK, Holland, Russia, Australia and Korea Republic. It began to enroll foreign students, since 1985, and started international cooperation of teaching with University of Luton in the U.K. and Griffith University of Australia since 1999; it has the enrollment of more than 700 students and accumulates amount of teaching experience.

There have been more than 110,000 students with the senior technology of engineering and the administration skill graduating from SUT within the 50 years since the founding of the university. It has made essential contribution to the Construction of the Socialist Modernization.

SUT persists in the characteristics of programs and subjects of heading for the relative programs of Apparatus Manufacturing, merging the subjects of the Electric Monitoring, material, mechanism and apparatus and mutual support of the program of engineering, science, economy, management, liberal arts and laws. As to the arrangement of teaching, it is major in undergraduate education, actively develops postgraduate education stably expands lifelong education and advanced vocational technology education and tries to grow international cooperation education. The main purpose is to cultivate applied talented person with senior engineering technology and management skills, at the same time it aims to train the skilled people of researching compound and abilities. Through years of teaching practice, it forms the features of cultivating the talented people of modest style, generous foundation, strong ability of application of engineer and adjustment of job position. SUT is built mainly to serve local zone economy construction, and also to influence national apparatus manufacturing and other professional areas.

In the intense trend of developing high education all over China, SUT is developing according to its doctrine of self-support sincerely practicing, carrying forward the SUT's spirit of “waging a hard struggle and being self-reliance”, being on the improvement day by day, being pioneering and enterprising, striving to develop itself into a high level multi-subject teaching and researching university which gains a footing in Liaoning and has the features of serving all the nation, engineering oriented, obvious features and open style, to make the multi-strength of teaching be in the forefront of all the local universities of science and engineering, and to be the significant base of cultivating talented people and innovating science and technology.