SSPU advances connotative development in depth. The university is a doctoral degree awarding construction institution in Shanghai. It is included in the Construction Project (cultivation) of High-Level Universities in Shanghai and is selected as Postdoctoral Innovative Practice Base of Pudong New Area. SSPU now offers 13 master’s degree programs, 50 bachelor’s degree programs and some high-quality higher vocational programs covering 8 fields of disciplines including Engineering, Management, Economics, Science, Arts, Literature, Education and Law. The discipline of Engineering ranks the top 1% of ESI global rankings. SSPU focuses on building two featured and advantageous disciplines, Mechanical Engineering (Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering) and Materials Science and Engineering (Energy Conservation and New Energy Materials), and emerging cross disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Energy and Environmental Protection, etc. The university also plans some future disciplinary directions, including Energy System Engineering, Integrated Circuit Engineering, Standardization Engineering, Intelligent Medical Engineering, etc. The establishment of research institutes such as the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Integrated Circuit Research Institute, and Intelligent Medical Engineering Research Institute empowers the development of key engineering fields of the university. SSPU has 3 National Distinctive Programs and 3 National First-Class Undergraduate Program Construction Sites. And the programs of SSPU are selected into over 30 projects such as Excellent Engineer Education Training Program of the Ministry of Education, Comprehensive Reform Pilot Program of Undergraduate Programs in Local Universities under the “Undergraduate Teaching Project” of the Ministry of Education, Applied Undergraduate Pilot Programs for Local Universities, Shanghai First-Class Undergraduate Program Construction Site, Shanghai Undergraduate Education Highland Construction Project, etc. SSPU also undertakes over 60 national and Shanghai Municipal projects, including Emerging Engineering Research and Practice Projects, Industry-University Cooperation Education Projects of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai New Humanities and Social Sciences Research and Reform Practice Projects, Shanghai Cultural Creativity & Industry-Education Integration Leading Projects, and Key Undergraduate Teaching Reform Projects in Shanghai Universities. In recent years, the university has built more than 200 national and Shanghai Municipal courses, including National First-Class Undergraduate Courses, Shanghai First-Class Undergraduate Courses, Shanghai Key Courses, etc. The faculty have won 2 second prizes of National Teaching Achievement Award, 1 special award, 3 first prizes and 8 second prizes of Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award；and the students have participated in more than 410 discipline and skill competitions of various kinds at the provincial and ministerial level and above, and won more than 2100 awards in total including nearly 800 national awards.