Clothing design and engineering majors train senior engineering and clothing design talents in the fields of clothing style design, clothing pattern and technology, clothing digital technology application, clothing materials and functional protective clothing development; And senior garment management talents engaged in the fields of garment industry economy, garment marketing, commodity inspection and trade, brand management and operation. The major of fashion design and engineering emphasizes the cultivation of students' practical skills through engineering and technical links such as material performance and structure experiment, style design practice, pattern technology practice and fashion technology practice. It has functional protective clothing research center, clothing human science research center, clothing CAD/CAM research center and other research institutions, as well as clothing industry production laboratory, clothing fabric testing laboratory, clothing sewing technology laboratory, clothing digital laboratory and other facilities. At the same time, make full use of social resources, strengthen multi-directional cooperation with the government, industries and enterprises, and set up off-campus internship and scientific research bases in Youngor Group, Blue Ocean Group and Rongzhihua Group. Fashion design and engineering specialty has the characteristics of mutual penetration of engineering technology and artistic design, and the intersection of fashion science and other engineering disciplines. It is one of the earliest clothing disciplines established in colleges and universities in China, and has formed a talent training system at three levels: bachelor, master and doctor. Fashion design and engineering discipline is the only national key construction discipline and national characteristic discipline of college clothing industry in China, the key construction discipline of Shanghai universities and the "2 1 1 engineering" key construction discipline of the Ministry of Education. Donghua University's clothing design and engineering have always ranked first among similar disciplines in China, and the clothing design and engineering specialty ranks first among similar disciplines in China. With the United States, Britain, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong and other countries and regions have close cooperation. The employment direction of graduates is government departments in the field of clothing, domestic and foreign brand enterprises, universities and foreign-funded institutions. Engaged in clothing style and pattern design, clothing digital technology development and application, brand planning and commodity planning, retail management and international trade, marketing and management, production line organization and process management, quality control and finished product inspection, functional protective clothing research and development. The employment rate of graduates of this major for many years is 100%.