The institute sticks to combining education with science research, encouraging and instructing teachers to work over teaching theory, develop applicable technology, compose textbooks and teaching schedules and make teaching tools and multi-media courseware. This practice has strengthened the cooperation with enterprises and has widen the employment market for the students, meanwhile enhancing the teacher's ability for training the staff of enterprises and supplying technology for medium-small sized enterprises, forming a win-win situation between the institute and enterprises. 
In recent years, the institute has been in charge of many provincial or ministerial scientific research projects, and won 11 prizes of education achievement. At the same time, CNC Programming and Automobile Electrical Apparatus and Electronic Control Technology have been accessed as the "National Elaborate courses". WXIT has published more than 20 sets of textbooks programmed by Ministry of Education, and has published more than 300 theses about the development of curriculums, putting it at the leading position of Jiangsu higher vocational colleges.