The college of Materials Engineering has a history of over 60 years. It currently enrolls more than 1,700 undergraduate and graduate students. The school offers five undergraduate programs, namely Wood Science and Engineering, Light Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, and New Energy Science and Engineering. It also has three master's degree programs in “Forest Engineering,” “Chemical Engineering and Technology,” and “Materials and Chemical Engineering,” a doctoral degree program in “Forest Engineering,” and a postdoctoral research station in “Forest Engineering.” Three of its undergraduate programs have passed the engineering education accreditation by the Ministry of Education. Among them, the discipline of Forest Engineering ranks B+ in the latest national discipline assessment.
The college has 87 faculty and staff members, including 31 professors, 31 associate professors, 26 doctoral supervisors, and 56 master's supervisors. The proportion of teachers with doctoral degrees is 95.6%.
The college places great emphasis on the construction of platforms and research teams. It has eight provincial and ministerial-level research and teaching platforms, with laboratory space exceeding 17,000 square meters and scientific research and teaching instruments worth nearly 100 million yuan..
In recent three years, the college has undertaken more than 300 national and provincial scientific research projects, won four national science and technology progress second prizes (one of which was hosted by the college), and three first prizes for science and technology progress/invention in Fujian Province. More than 300 papers have been published in JCR Q 1 and Q 2, including more than 100 papers in top journals such as Nature, Science Advances, Energy Environmental Science, and Advanced Functional Materials, and more than 20 ESI highly cited papers. More than 70 invention patents have been authorized, making an important contribution to the university's three disciplines of materials science, chemistry, and engineering entering the global ESI 1% disciplines.
