Opened in 1987, the Department of Computer Science and Technology is the earliest engineering major of Hubei Institute of Automotive Industry, and the early professional name is "Computer Application". In 1996, in accordance with the professional objectives of the State Education Commission, the professional name was changed to "Computer Science and Technology". In 2014, it was approved as a "professional comprehensive reform" major in Hubei Province, in 2016 it was approved as a Sino-foreign cooperative school-running project of the Ministry of Education, in 2018 it was approved by the Ministry of Education's first batch of new engineering research and practice projects, and in 2019, it was approved as a "first-class undergraduate major" construction site in Hubei Province.