1896Sheng Xuanhuai established Nanyang Public School.

1908The Specialized Faculty of Electric Machine was founded.

1913The Specialized Faculty of Electric Machines was renamed the Faculty of Electrical Machinery.

1919The Radio Laboratory was set up.

1921The School was designated as Jiao Tong University. The Faculty of Electrical Machinery was then renamed the Faculty of Electric Machines, composed of such three branches as Electrical Engineering, Wired Telecom and Wireless Telecom.

1924The branches of Wired Telecom and Wireless Telecom merged to form the Telecom Branch.

1928The University was under the supervision of the Ministry of Railway. The Faculty of Electrical Machines was renamed the School of Electrical Engineering, with two branches of Telecom and Electric Power.

1937The University became affiliated to the Ministry of Education with a set-up of the College of Science and the College of Engineering. The latter covered the Department of Electrical Engineering (including two branches of Telecom and Electric Power), the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Civil Engineering.

1943The Telecom Research Institute was established and began its enrollment of graduate students majoring in telecom.

1945The Department of Telecom Management, the Special Courses for Telecom Engineering and the Special Courses for Telecom Management were set up.

1950The Department of Telecom Management merged into the Department of Electrical Engineering.

1951The Department of Telecom Engineering was set up.

1952The faculties or departments of Electric Machines in Tongji University, Tatung University, Aurora University, University of Shanghai and Shanghai Polytechnic College merged into Jiaotong University to form such three departments as the Department of Electrical Equipment Manufacturing, the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Telecom Engineering.

1957Jiaotong University set its branch campuses in Shanghai and Xi’an.

1958In the Shanghai branch of Jiaotong University, the Department of Electrical Engineering was established after the merger of the Department of Electrical Equipment Manufacturing and that of Electrical Engineering. The reestablishment of the Radio Department resulted in such majors as Computer Science, Automatic Control and Radio Technology; and the major of Precision Instrument was also set within the Department of Mechanical Engineering,.

1959The Shanghai branch of Jiaotong University was designated Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU).

1962The Department of Automatic Control was set up.

1975The Department of Precision Instrument was set up.

1978The Department of Electro-technical Engineering & Computer Science was set up.

1981The Department of Radio was renamed the Department of Electronic Engineering.

1985The School of Electronics & Electro-technical Engineering was set up, which covered four departments (i.e. the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Automatic Control, Computer Science & Engineering, and Electronic Engineering) and three institutes (i.e. the Institutes of Optical Fiber Technology, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, and Large Scale Integration).

1987SJTU cooperated with the Ministry of Water Conservancy & Electric Power in the establishment of SJTU Electric Power School, which was composed of the Department of Electric Power Engineering, the Department of Energy Engineering, the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Department of Information & Control Engineering, and the Institute of Electric Power Technology.

1989The School of Electronics & Electro-technical Engineering was renamed the School of Electronics & Information, including the Department of Automatic Control, the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and the Department of Electronics Engineering. Its original Institutes remained.

1997The Department of Precision Instrument merged into the School of Electronics & Information.

2001The School of Electronics & Information and the School of Electric Power were combined to form the School of Electronic, Information & Electrical Engineering, which covered the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Department of Automation, the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Department of Instrument Science & Engineering.

2003The Electrical & Electronic Lab Center was set up, affiliated to the School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering.