The College of Materials and Chemical Engineering is a merger of the former College of Chemical Engineering and the College of Materials. Academician Xue Qunji of the Chinese Academy of Engineering is the dean. There are one hundred and twenty-three faculty members, including three academicians (part-time), one Qianjiang scholar (part-time) and one person enjoying special government allowance from the State Council. Among the faculty members, there are fourteen professors and forty-five associate professors. Moreover, eighty-two teachers of all teaching staff have a doctorate.
The college has six undergraduate majors, including Chemical engineering and technology, Oil and gas storage and transportation engineering, Material science and engineering, Material physics, Applied chemistry, and Safety engineering, etc. And the major of Chemical engineering and technology specialty passed the international accreditation of Engineering Department of the Ministry of education in year 2016. At present, there are one thousand three hundred and eighteen full-time undergraduate students, and more than twenty graduate students have been jointly trained in our college. It is worth mentioning that our college is also the host unit of Ningbo applied talents training base and Ningbo service professional group.
The college has five experimental centers, covering an area of nearly 14,000 square meters, including Chemical engineering, Materials, University physics, Metalworking and Safety engineering. The total assets of the equipment exceed 100 million RMB. It has two provincial first-class construction disciplines, including Materials science and engineering, Chemical engineering and technology, and two provincial Academician workstations of Ding Wenjiang and Zhang Yukui. It also possesses the National Engineering Practice Education Center, the provincial Chemical and Chemical Basic Experimental Demonstration Center, the Ningbo Knife and Mold Engineering Research Center and two Key Laboratories of polymer engineering and technology of Ningbo.
In the past five years, the college has hosted and completed twenty-five projects, including 863, 973 and National Natural Science Foundation. In addition, it also hosted and completed thirty provincial and ministerial level projects. The college has won one National Science and technology progress awards, three provincial science and technology awards, and five municipal science and technology awards. More than three hundred and twenty million RMB has been received for scientific research; more than two hundred SCI and EI papers have been published in Advanced functional materials, Material Chemistry A, JACS, NPGAsia Mater, Appl. Phys. Lett and other high-level academic journals; and more than one hundred invention patents have been authorized.
The College adheres to the "OBE concept" and adopts the talent training mode of integration of science and education to build an innovative platform for undergraduate students through multiple channels, focusing on training high-level applied and innovative talents with certain R&D capabilities. In the past three years, the undergraduate students have published forty-two academic papers, including sixteen SCI and EI, thirteen authorized invention patents. Moreover, the undergraduate students won two hundred and twenty-nine awards, including twenty-one at the national level and two hundred and eight at the provincial and ministerial levels. They have won the special prize or the first prize in the National Chemical Design Competition for eight consecutive years. Every year, more than 15% of the undergraduate students are admitted to get master's degree of 985, 211 and other famous universities.
