Chongqing Jiaotong University, situated on the south bank of the Yangtze River and at the foot of Mount Qinglong, with a beautiful campus covering an area of over 100 hectares, is an institution of higher education under the municipal government of Chongqing, P. R. China. Founded in 1951, it has developed into a multi-disciplinary university after over 50 years of unremitting efforts. Currently, Chongqing Jiaotong University has a number of prestigious specialties in civil engineering including Highway Engineering, Bridge and Structure Engineering, Harbor and Waterway Transportation, together with other non-engineering specialties such as Management, Science, Economics and Arts, etc. In all, the university has 13 schools (Civil Engineering and Architecture School, River and Ocean Engineering School, Machinery and Electronic Engineering School, Management School, Foreign Languages School, Finance and Economics School, Traffic and Transportation School, Humanities School, Computer Science and Technology School, Open Education School and Vocational Training School) and 3 departments (Graduate Department, Physical Education Department, Experiment Department and Social Science Department). The total enrolment of students was 22, 000 by the end of Sept.2007. Altogether, Chongqing Jiaotong University offers 44 specialties to undergraduates, 27 to graduate students and 3 to doctoral students. Now it has one National Qualification Education Center, one Engineering Research Center approved by the Ministry of Education, one Key Lab approved by the Ministry of Communications, seven provincial levels key disciplines, six municipal level qualified labs for core-course education in Higher Institution, two municipal level model centers for e...