同济大学桥梁工程学科创建于1952年，是我国高校中最早设置的两个桥梁工程学科之一。1987年成立我国高校中第一个桥梁工程系。1998年成为教育部首批“长江学者奖励计划”特聘教授设岗学科和国家“211工程”重点建设学科，2000年被遴选为上海市十个“重中之重”学科之一，在2002年和2007年两次“桥梁与隧道工程”国家重点学科评估中均名列全国第一。
桥梁工程系目前设有11个研究（试验）室和1个教学研究室，是桥梁结构抗风技术交通行业重点实验室等专业机构的挂靠单位，也是国际桥梁与结构工程协会（IABSE）中国团组、国际桥梁维护与安全协会（IABMAS）中国团组、世界交通运输大会（WTC）桥梁工程学部、中国土木工程学会（CCES）桥梁及结构工程分会等国内外重要学术组织的常设机构所在地。
现有教职工107人，其中中国工程院院士1人、国家级人才2人，973计划首席科学家1人，正高级职务者30人、副高级职务者22人、中级职务者17人，博士后24人。每年招收硕士研究生70余人、博士研究生40余人。
教学与科研基地拥有桥梁馆、风工程馆、TJ-1风洞馆和嘉定校区振动台试验馆等四栋建筑，总建筑面积约1.5万平方米；教学和科研设备以七座边界层风洞群、风浪流水槽、世界上综合试验能力最强的多功能振动台阵、双向动/静液压伺服加载系统以及成套桥梁检测监测设备等为代表，固定资产总值3亿多元。
桥梁工程系一直以来积极服务交通强国建设国家战略和社会需求，努力建设桥梁工程及相关领域高层次人才培养、高水平科学研究和高新技术成果转化的国家级重要基地和国际性中心。
The Bridge Engineering discipline of Tongji University was founded in 1952 and is one of the earliest two bridge engineering disciplines established in Chinese universities. The first bridge engineering department in Chinese universities was established in 1987, and the first State Key Laboratory in the field of civil engineering, the State Key Laboratory of civil engineering disaster prevention, was approved to be established in 1988. In 1998, it became one of the first special appointed professors in the Yangtze River Scholar Award Program of the Ministry of Education and a key construction discipline of the national 211 Project. In 2000, it was selected as one of the ten top priority disciplines in Shanghai, and ranked first in the national key discipline evaluations of Bridge and Tunnel Engineering in 2002 and 2007.
The Department of Bridge Engineering currently houses 11 research (experimental) laboratories and 1 teaching and research office. It serves as the host institution for several professional organizations, including the Key Laboratory for Wind Resistance Technology of Bridge Structures in the transportation industry. It is also the permanent base for several prestigious international and national academic organizations, such as the Chinese Group of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), the Chinese Group of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), the Bridge Engineering Division of the World Transport Convention (WTC), and the Bridge and Structural Engineering Committee of the China Civil Engineering Society (CCES).
The department has 107 faculty and staff members, including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 recipients of national-level talent programs, 1 chief scientist of the National Basic Research Program (973 Program), 30 professors, 22 associate professors, and 17 lecturers or equivalent mid-level positions. Additionally, there are 24 postdoctoral researchers. Each year, the department admits over 70 master’s students and more than 40 doctoral students.
The department’s teaching and research infrastructure includes four major buildings: the Bridge Hall, Wind Engineering Hall, TJ-1 Wind Tunnel Hall, and the Shaking Table Laboratory at the Jiading Campus, with a total floor area of approximately 15,000 square meters. The department is equipped with advanced facilities, including a cluster of seven boundary layer wind tunnels, a wave-current flume, the world’s most comprehensive multi-functional shaking table array, a bi-directional dynamic/static hydraulic servo loading system, and a full suite of bridge inspection and monitoring instruments. The total value of fixed assets exceeds 300 million RMB.
The Department of Bridge Engineering actively aligns with the development strategy of large-scale transportation infrastructure construction in China, with the overall goal of cultivating high-quality talents in the field of bridge engineering and researching key technologies in bridge engineering design, construction, and maintenance. It gradually forms a disciplinary feature that combines theoretical research, physical experiments, on-site measurement, and numerical simulation, and strives to become a national important base and international center that is in line with the forefront of international large-scale bridge and power research, cultivating high-level talents, conducting high-level scientific research, and transforming high-tech achievements.