Students are recruited with the major of automation category. After freshmen enter the school, a specified number of students are selected to enter the "automation major" characteristic class and "biomedical engineering major" base class according to the results of voluntary combined examination (Math, English and interview), and the rest are organized into the automation major class.The specialty of Automation has "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" Program, "Automation Science" Experimental Class of Innovation in New Science and Technology Integration Program, "Artificial Intelligence and Robot" Experimental Class of Innovation in New Engineering Program and other characteristics of training classes, forming a general education +3 types of characteristics of teaching and educating integrated talent training system.

Biomedical engineering is a brand specialty in Shandong Province. It is an interdisciplinary characteristic talent training base in Shandong University, which adopts the elite small class system, 4 years (undergraduate) +3 years (postgraduate) integrated undergraduate and postgraduate training mode. There is no restriction on postgraduate recommendation, and the proportion of postgraduate recommended without examination in recent years averages over 75%. The specialty of biomedical engineering is characterized by the organic integration of multi-disciplines.It integrates the relevant theories of biology, medicine and engineering. It mainly uses engineering technology to study and solve the related problems in biology and medicine, involving biological materials, artificial organs, biomedical signal processing methods, medical imaging and image processing methods, etc, which plays a huge role in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and health of diseases.