机械电子工程系与美国加州大学伯克利分校、普渡大学、佐治亚理工大学、明尼苏达大学, 德国亚琛工业大学、德累斯顿技术大学，芬兰坦佩雷大学，瑞典林雪平大学，日本东京工业大学、东北大学，英国巴斯大学，英国牛津大学，新加坡国立大学，澳大利亚新南威尔士大学、墨尔本大学，香港科技大学等国际知名大学，以及德国费斯托公司、博世力士乐公司、日本日立建机公司、美国伊顿公司、国家仪器公司等国际知名企业建立了稳定的战略合作关系。
The State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems has developed strategic alliance partnership with world-renowned universities including UC Berkeley, Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, RWTH Aachen University, Technische Universität Dresden, Tampere University of Technology, Linköpings University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tohoku University, University of Bath, University of Oxford, National University of Singapore, University of New South Wales, University of Melbourne, HongKong University of Science and Technology, as well as with world-renowned companies such as Festo, Bosch Rexroth, Hitachi Construction Machinery and National Instruments.
1985年以来每四年举办一届杭州流体传动及控制国际学术会议，已成为流体传动及控制领域国际上最具影响力的四个国际会议之一。近五年还主办了如下重要国际学术会议：
The Lab has been organizing the Hangzhou International Conferences on Fluid Power Transmission and Control since 1985. The conferences were held every four years and have become one of the four most influential international conference series in the field of fluid power transmission and control. In addition, the Lab has hosted various important international conferences and the conferences hosted during the past five years are:
The 12th International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics (ICTCA 2015)
7th International Conference on Pumps and Fans (ICPF 2015)
The International Conference on Wearable Sensor and Robot (ICWSR2015)
13th CIRP Conference on Computer Aided Tolerancing (CIRP 2014)
The 6th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems (IFAC 2013)
