Founded in 2005, UTSEUS is a Sino-French engineering institute, shared by the universities of technology (UTBM, UTC, UTT) and Shanghai University (SHU).
A multi-purpose platform for initial engineering training, research and innovation, UTSEUS has grown rapidly, with an average annual enrolment of over 1,200 students, distributed between Shanghai and the TUs. UTSEUS was conceived with a dual role in mind: on the one hand, to promote the original UT training model in China; on the other, to bring well-prepared Chinese students (over 130 per year) into the UT engineering and masters cycles during their first three years of bachelor's studies in Shanghai, in the mechanical engineering, computer science, materials and bioengineering specialties.
Another strong point of UTSEUS is that it is the only Chinese-French engineering platform to welcome a large number of French students - nearly 140 in 2017: mainly from the second year of the UT core curriculum, for a semester of courses at UTSEUS. 
UTSEUS, but also at branch and master's level in two semester-long courses focusing on international project engineering ("IE" semester) and innovation and entrepreneurship ("LCIE" semester). During their stay in Shanghai, these students, selected by the TUs, share courses with their Chinese counterparts from UTSEUS, and in so doing earn the credits required for their studies at their TU, while enjoying an exceptional academic, cultural, linguistic and human experience.
Many companies have signed partnership agreements with UTSEUS founding institutions. This reflects the involvement of companies in UTSEUS activities: courses given by company experts, site visits, projects and internships for students, partnership research topics.
In the field of research, several major areas of cooperation have emerged and continue to develop:
- Creation in 2019 of a data science research axis for cyber-physical systems, in conjunction with the new UTSEUS master's project.
- LERMPS (Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Matériaux, les Surfaces et les. Processes) and SHU's State key laboratory special steel.
- Signature in June 2017 of a new nanotechnology research framework agreement between UTT's Nanotechnology and Optical Instrumentation Laboratory (LNIO) and SHU's Key Laboratory ofAdvanced Display and System Application.
- 1260 Chinese students studying in China and then in France: 916 in Shanghai, 344 in France, mainly in the UTs.
- 265 Chinese students recruited each year in Shanghai in the first year of their bachelor's degree, in 4 majors: mechanical engineering (98), computer engineering (112), materials science (40), biological engineering (18);
- 150 students selected at the end of the 3rd year of the Bachelor's program to continue their studies in France, mainly in UT engineering programs (135 in UT and 17 in other French partner schools).
- 800 hours of French per student taught by 24 resident teachers
- 30% of specialty courses taught by 50 UT visiting professors and resident French lecturers/researchers
- 129 French and international students
- 79 UT core curriculum students - "sciences and humanities in China" program - who spend their 4th semester (TC4) in Shanghai from February to June, mixing with Chinese 3rd-year UTSEUS bachelor students (42 in 2015 and 63 in 2016).
- 50 master's-level students, mainly from UTs
- IE "International Engineer" program: 1 autumn semester at UTSEUS (24 students in 2016 and 29 in 2017)
- LCIE program "Languages, culture, innovation, entrepreneurship": 1 spring semester at UTSEUS (19 in 2016 and 19 in 2017)