Overview of the Program

This university major of materials science and engineering was founded in 1952, offering bachelor's degree. From 1955, this major started to offer the master's degree. It was authorized to offer the Doctor's degree in 1981 and was granted the permission to recruit post-doctors from 1985. Material Science and Engineering was listed as a key academic major of Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry in 1988, Ministry of Weaponry Industry Department in 1991, and National Defense Science and Technology Committee in 2001. It is one of national "211 Project", national "985 Project key academic majors, being incorporated into "Advanced Material Science and Technology Innovation Platform" in the second stage of "985". In 2005, the Materials Science and Engineering became a Level-I discipline. After more than 50 years of construction, this academic major has built a research platform, which can support various research fields of material science and engineering and combine materials design, fabrication, analysis, characterization, and performance assessment. The total assets of the equipment amounted to over 90 million yuan. This major has the abilities of solving the critical problems of material science and engineering in the construction of national economy, and has been leading a large number of national key projects, making tremendous achievements in a large number of applications of materials science and engineering.

In the past five years, as the leading unit, this discipline has won more than 20 national and provincial awards, including three National Technological Invention Second Prize, one Special Prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award, one National Teaching Achievement Award. This discipline possesses many distinguished teachers, including one Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, two Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, two chair professors of 973, one "Cheung Kong Scholar", of ministry of education, two winner of National Outstanding Youth Fund, one expert of National Experts with Outstanding Contributions, four winners of He-Liang-He-Li Award, seven professors in Thousand Youth Talents Plan, twelve professors in China Youth Science Fund Project and Trans-Century Training Program Foundation for the Talents By the State Education Commission. This discipline has constructed varies national and provincial supporting platforms, including National Science Key Lab of Impact Environment on Materials, National Flame-retardant Materials Engineering and Research Center, National Flame-retardant Materials Engineering and Research Center, National Flame-retardant Materials Engineering and Research Center, National High Technology Development Center Green Materials, National Engineering Research Center of Flame Retardant Materials, Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, Beijing Higher Institution Engineering Research Center of Power Battery and Chemical Energy Materials, Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Beijing key laboratory of environmental science and engineering, Beijing engineering research center of cellulose and its derivatives, Engineering Research Center of Fire-Safe Materials and Technology(Beijing Institute of Technology) , Ministry of Education.

In 2018, the discipline of materials science and engineering of Beijing Institute of Technology ranked in 50-100 in the world from QS World University Rankings, top 6 throughout the country, and No.136 in the world of ESI international ranking. The main research directions including:

(1) Mutilate and protective material: The main research objects are the warhead material and armor protection material.

(2) Advanced materials molding theory and technology: Including the theory and technology of liquid molding of special materials, the basic theory and engineering application research of the new technology of plastic processing of warhead materials, research of powder metallurgy technology, research of the numerical modeling and simulation technology of material forming process.

(3) Low dimensional materials physics and chemistry: mainly including the preparation of zero-dimensional, one-dimensional and two-dimensional nanomaterials, the study of materials performance, especially semiconductor nanomaterials.

(4) Functional polymer and flame retardant materials: Focusing on biomedical materials, Photoelectric functional polymer materials and flame-resistant materials.

(5) Materials surface engineering: Including the design and optimization of surface special functional coating materials, the numerical simulation of thermal spraying process, the preparation of coating materials, the performance testing and characterization of materials, the processing of surface special functional coating materials.

(6) Energetic material: Including the molecular design, synthesis and preparation of high energy density compound, energetic polymer, nanometer energetic materials, functional energetic auxiliaries, high performance solid propellant and charging technology, the progress and application of solid propellant forming, cladding layer and thermal barrier material technology, high-energy explosive mixture and charging technology.

Energy and environmental materials: Studying various key materials and its engineering application technologies of new chemical energy sources and physical energy sources. The synthesis characterization, molecular design, simulation, performance prediction and economic evaluation of various new green energy materials. New theory, new method and new technology in preparation and application of various new green energy materials. New theories, new methods and new technologies in the preparation and application of energy materials, The failure mechanism of environmental materials and resource recovery and recycling technology of various waste. The theory problems in the treatment process of waste water, waste gas and solid waste. The basic theories, systematic scientific methods and practical applications of environmental planning and management.

Length of Schooling

The basic length of schooling for master students is 2 years. In principle, students should complete the courses in the first academic year. Thesis work time should not be less than one year. The maximum length of study for master students is extended by 0.5 years on the basis of 2 years. The basic length of schooling for Ph.D. students is 4 years. In principle, students should complete the courses in the first academic year. Thesis work time should not be less than three years. The maximum length of study for Ph.D. students is extended by 2 years on the basis of 4 years.