I.Basic Information
The School of Materials and Chemical Engineering was formed by the merger of the former School of Chemical Engineering and the former School of Materials Science. It currently has over 110 faculty and staff members, including 3 part-time academicians, 1 part-time Yangtze River Scholar, 1 recipient of the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, 1 national-level talent, 14 provincial and ministerial-level talents with senior professional titles (professors), 32 with associate senior professional titles (associate professors), and 89 teachers holding doctoral degrees. There are more than 1,600 full-time undergraduate students currently enrolled. Up to now, the school has jointly trained over 300 master’s and doctoral students, with 34 graduate students currently in school. It serves as the host institution for the Ningbo Applied Talent Training Base and the Ningbo Service-Oriented Professional Group Construction, and was selected as a provincial-level industrial college in 2025.
In 2024, the school was approved to offer the master’s program in Materials and Chemical Engineering. It boasts 2 first-class provincial key disciplines, namely Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering and Technology. The supporting disciplines of "Materials Science" and "Chemistry" have both entered the top 1% of ESI (Essential Science Indicators) global rankings. The school offers 6 full-time undergraduate programs, which are Chemical Engineering and Technology, Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Physics, Applied Chemistry, and Safety Engineering.
II.Teaching
Taking moral education and talent cultivation as its fundamental mission, the school implements a talent training model integrating "industry-education integration and science-education integration".
①Industry-Education Integration. Based on the cooperation among government, enterprises and universities, it jointly formulates talent training programs, offers industry-partnered courses, builds engineering case databases, compiles new-format textbooks, and shares practical training bases.
②Science-Education Integration. It strengthens the undergraduate research assistant system, taking research projects, discipline competitions, and cutting-edge lectures as key drivers. Through integrating research and competitions into teaching, it enhances students’ research and innovation capabilities. This system has been specially reported by Zhejiang Education.
③Interdisciplinary Integration. Following the industrial trends of greenization and intellectualization, it breaks professional barriers and implements an inter-professional course offering system to cultivate talents meeting the development needs of emerging chemical engineering disciplines.
III. Research
The discipline construction has achieved remarkable results. Over the past five years, the school has successively presided over and completed 36 national-level projects (including 863 Program, 973 Program, and National Natural Science Foundation of China) and more than 44 provincial and ministerial-level projects. It has won 1 National Technological Invention Award, 1 National Science and Technology Progress Award, 6 provincial and ministerial-level Science and Technology Awards, and 5 municipal-level Science and Technology Awards. The annual average research funding received exceeds 20 million yuan. More than 400 SCI and EI papers have been published in high-level academic journals such as Nature Nanotechnology, Chemical Society Reviews, and Journal of the American Chemical Society, and over 200 invention patents have been authorized.
IV. Student Development
①Competition and Innovation.The team of has won the National First Prize consecutively in competitions including the National Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Design Competition, National Undergraduate Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Engineering Design Competition, National Undergraduate Physics Experiment Competition, and National Undergraduate Metallographic Competition. It has also claimed the Gold Award multiple times in the China International College Students' Innovation Competition.
② Scientific Research Practice. Adhering to the "OBE (Outcome-Based Education) concept", the school adopts a talent training model integrating science and education. It builds multi-channel innovation platforms for students and strives to cultivate high-level applied and innovative talents with certain R&D capabilities. Over the past five years, students have published 141 academic papers (including 52 SCI and EI papers), obtained 30 authorized invention patents, and won 252 discipline competition awards (124 national-level and 128 provincial-level). It has won the special prize or first prize in the National University Students Chemical Engineering Design Competition for 12 consecutive years.
③Establish college scholarships. Establish a number of college scholarships, including the Xinqiao Scholarship and Assistance Fund, Xinbang Fund, and Yunsheng Fund.
V.Program
1.Chemical Engineering and Technology
2.Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation Engineering
3.Applied Chemistry
4.Safety Engineering
5.Materials Science and Engineering
6.Materials Physics
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