Program overview
Navigation Engineering belongs to the surveying and mapping category. Simply put, it's the study of "how to know where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there." The map navigation on your phone, the route planning of autonomous vehicles, and the landing guidance of aircraft all rely on the technology of this major. Core courses include satellite navigation principles (e.g., GPS, BeiDou), inertial navigation, integrated navigation, cartography, signal processing, and programming (C++/Python). Chinese universities have a unique advantage in this field: the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) is one of the four global navigation systems, and many universities have BeiDou-related labs and projects where you can get hands-on experience with cutting-edge practices. This major is suitable for students with a solid foundation in math and physics, who enjoy hands-on experiments and are interested in electronic devices and programming. If you think "making machines find their way" is cool, this major will be right up your alley.