There are 35 to 40 teachers in the Department of Mechanical Design, including 8 professors, 13 associate professors, 3 senior experimenters and 10 doctoral degree teachers. The office, laboratory and graduate student studio of the Department of Mechanical Design cover a total area of about 4000 square meters.

Adhering to the idea of “teaching as the base” and “scientific research as the source”, Department of MD not only provides courses in fundamental engineering courses and mechanical design specialty courses, but also actively develops online open courses and national featured courses. Based on the national and provincial scientific research platform, MD department directed and involved in national, provincial and ministerial projects and military projects, and developed a long-lasting research direction with great achievements in the researches on the design and structure detuning of heavy gas turbine, design of transportation equipment for deep sea mining, design of high speed/heavy load/precision aviation gear drive, design of blood pump, design of navigation/aviation vehicle and sintering/metallurgy machine, and so on. ME fundamental teaching lab, has also been awarded the honor of National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center.