Introduction to the School
The School of Materials Science and Engineering in the
University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) was
established in October of 1996, based on the consolidation of
original three departments of Materials Science and Engineering,
Metal Processing, Surface Science and Corrosion Engineering as
well as the Research Group of Foundry Technology in the
Metallurgy Department of the University. In December of 1998,
Department of Materials Physics and the Group of Inorganic
Nonmetallic Materials in the Department of Physical Chemistry,
both of which originally belonged to the School of Application
Science , jointed. Then the School had six departments and one
institute, i.e. Department of Materials Physics, Department of
Metallic Materials, Department of Functional Materials and
Surface Technology, Department of Powder Materials, Department
of Surface Science and Corrosion Engineering; Department of
Metal Processing and Institute of Foundry. In March of 2001,
reconstruction was carried out in the School along with the
adjustment of specialties of higher education in China. At
present, the School includes four departments, two institutes
and two centers, namely, Department of Materials Science,
Department of Materials Processing and Control Engineering,
Department of Material Physics and Chemistry, Department of
Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials, Institute of Powder Metallurgy,
Institute of Functional Materials, Corrosion and Protection
Center as well as Center of Experiments and Testing.
In addition to the above education and
academic institutions, the School also possesses National
Testing Laboratory of Solid Electrolyte and Sensing Technology,
Key Laboratory of Environment Induced Fracture of the State
Education Ministry, Research Center of Metal Electronic
Information Materials Engineering of the State Education
Ministry, Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Powder Metallurgy
Materials and Technology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Corrosion,
Erosion and Surface Technology, Beijing Corrosion and Protection
Center, Laboratory of Environmental Materials, Laboratory of
Advanced Technology Metals and Materials Simulation.
Furthermore, there are two national academic institutions in the
University, National Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and
Materials and National Engineering Center of High - Efficiency
Rolling, both of them are giving strong support to the
development of the discipline of Materials Science and
Engineering.
At present, the School has 2022 students,
including 201 doctoral students, 584 master students, and 1237
undergraduate students. There are 3 Academicians of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, 1 Academician of the Chinese Academy of
Engineering, 68 Professors ( in which 45 are doctoral student
supervisors), and 50 associate professors. 4 professors are
engaged through the “Yangtze River Scholar Awarding Plan” of the
State Education Ministry. In the staff, there are 4 awardees by
“Cross - Century Talents Foundation”, 3 awardees by “National
Outstanding Youth Foundation”, 3 elected members of the Project
of “Millions of talents” of the Notional Personnel Ministry, 15
young excellent teachers approved by the State Education
Ministry and 3 elected members of the plan of “New Star of
Beijing Science and Technology”. The School has also engaged 30
pluralistic professors ( including 2 Academicians ) from
outside. . In the School 3 specialties are the National Key
Disciplines, which are Materials Science, Materials Processing
Engineering and Materials Physics and Chemistry. Each national
key discipline offers education programs for doctoral degree and
master degree and is post – doctoral research station. 4
specialties including Materials Science and Engineering,
Materials Processing and Control Engineering, Inorganic
Nonmetallic Mineral Engineering and Materials Physics provide
education program for bachelor degree.
The School has taken on over 110 various
national scientific research projects during the period of “the
Ninth Five - Year Plan”. Among them 86 projects are from the
National Natural Science Foundation, 22 from the National “863”
Fundamental Research Projects. 20 projects have been awarded
prizes by the State and over 60 projects awarded prizes of
science and technology progress by local provinces or various
ministries of the State. 28 of 30 submitted invention patents
have been granted. From 1996, 2374 academic papers have been
published, in which 40% have been included in “SCI”, “EI” and “ISTP”.
Organization
Structure
Assignment of
Disciplines
National Key Disciplines
Materials Science
Materials Processing Engineering
Materials Physics and Chemistry
Post - Doctorial Research Station
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Principal Disciplines
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Specialties
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Materials Science and Engineering |
Materials Science |
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Disciplines
Principal Discipline |
Second Class Discipline |
Doctor |
Master |
Specialties for Undergraduates |
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Materials Science |
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Materials Science and Engineering Inorganic
Nonmetallic Materials |
Materials Processing |
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Materials Forming and Control
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Materials Physics
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Introduction
to the Disciplines
Materials Science
Materials Science is an applied fundamental
discipline, focusing on the interrelations between the chemical
composition, structures, processing, properties and
characteristics of materials. Its main task is to provide
scientific basis for materials designing, manufacturing,
processing optimization and the corresponding practices. The
discipline of Materials Science in USTB has been developed based
on the earliest established research group of Metal Phase
Technology in China (1952), which is one of the National Key
Disciplines, one of the National “211 project” key developing
disciplines, national scientific research model unit. It has
been entitled to offer working station for post - doctoral
students and has positions for special accommodated professors
from overseas engaged by the “Yangzi River Awarding Plan”
approved by The State Education Ministry. The discipline has
also been entitled to offer the degrees of Engineering Doctor,
Master and Bachelor as well. It now becomes one of the main
bases for cultivating superior talents and scientific research
in Materials Science of the nation. The distinguished
representatives are Academician of Prof. Chen Guo-liang, Prof.
Wang Chong-yu and Prof. Zhou Bang-xin. The discipline is
involving following units, such as: Department of Materials
Science, Department of Inorganic nonmetallic Materials, National
Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, Beijing Key
Laboratory of Corrosion - Erosion and Surface Technology,
Institute of Functional Materials and Beijing Key Laboratory of
Advanced Powder Metallurgy Materials and Technology.
Currently, in this discipline, there are 1
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 1 Academician
of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 32 professors, 34
associate professors, and l7 lecturers. Among them are 16 ph
Dstudent supervisors, 2 special accommodated professors engaged
by the “Yangzi River Awarding Plan”, 2 elected members of the
National “Millions of human source Project”, 1 awardee by the
“National Outstanding Youth Foundation”, 2 elected members of
the “cross century talents plan” approved by the State Education
Ministry and 1 awardee by “Teaching and Awarding Foundation for
National Universities’ excellent young teacher”. Besides the
National Key Laboratories for Advanced Metals and Materials, the
discipline has more than ten research branches, including
Materials Optimization and Design ( including High Temperature
Alloy ), the Principle of Materials Anisotropies and
Application, the Applied Basis for Advanced Structured
Materials, Magnetic Materials and its Application, Preparation
of Composed Materials and Composition materials, Advanced Powder
Shaping Technology and Nano Structured Materials, High
Technology Functional Thin Film Materials, Magnetic Functional
Materials, High Temperature Corrosion and Surface Engineering,
Corrosion Control Systematic Engineering, Electrical Chemistry
Engineering and Materials, Inorganic Nonmetallic Functional
Materials, Inorganic High Temperature Structured Materials,
Advanced Ceramic and Functional Gradient Materials, Biologic and
Medical Materials and Micro-Electronic Materials. In 2001,
during the first period of review and evaluation for “211”
project in the “Ninth Five-year Plan”, the discipline of
Materials Science in USTB received a unanimous high evaluation
by the expert team. It was pointed out that the discipline
“having been kept the national key discipline level, being top
level at home, close or up to the international advanced level
and the development of the discipline is satisfied.”. Meanwhile,
the discipline has entitled again as one of the national key
disciplines based on the dominant votes.
The Academic committee for the Materials
Science consists of 7 members, they are: Liu Guo-quan ( Chairman
), Sun Zu-qing, Lu Fan-xiu, Qu Xuan-hui, He Ye-dong, Sun Jia-lin,
Li Chang-rong ( Secretary ). The committee is responsible for
making the plan of construction, developing the discipline,
arranging and coordinating the teaching activities.
Materials Processing Engineering
Materials Processing Engineering is an
applied fundamental discipline, which focuses on the
interrelations among materials preparation, forming processing
technology, control approach for forming processing and
materials structure and characteristics. Its main task is to
provide scientific basis for materials preparation, processing
production, forming processing optimization and processing
technology, equipment and the control methods for advanced
materials.
The Materials Processing Engineering
discipline of USTB was formed based on the united of three
units, including Department of Metal Forming ( established in
1952 ), specialty of Foundry Technology and specialty of
Advanced Materials Welding Technology. Materials Processing
Engineering is the National Key Discipline and the Key
Developing Discipline of the National “211” project. It has been
entitled to offer research stations for post - doctoral studies
and has positions for special accommodated professors engaged by
the “Yangzi River Plan” approved by the State Education
Ministry, and to offer the degrees of Engineering Doctor,
Master, and Bachelor as well. From 1952 and the late of 50s,
USTB began to recruit undergraduate students and post - graduate
students of the specialty of Plastic Working for Metals,
respectively. It was one of the first universities in China to
offer the degrees of Master and Doctor in the specialty of
Plastic Working for Metals in 1981. In the restructuring of the
disciplines and specialties led by the State Education Ministry
from 1998, the master and doctorate programs have been offered
for the specialty of Material Processing Engineering from 2000
and undergraduate students of the specialty of Materials Forming
and Control Engineering began to be recruited. In the past
decades, the discipline has cultivated over 6000 undergraduate
students, 600 masters and 100 doctors, completed more than 230
projects including national key research projects, promotion of
science and technology, international collaboration and domestic
enterprises cooperation. 50 research results were awarded with
various prizes of the national level, the provincial level or
the ministerial level. The academic reputation and achievement
of the discipline are in the top rank in China and of great
influence abroad. In the domestic discipline area of materials
processing engineering, in the national research and production
area, especially in the area of metallurgy, the discipline of
Material Processing Engineering has played an important role in
scientific technology progress and creation of social economical
benefits. Meanwhile, an integrated, well - equipped scientific
mechanism has been formed, which includes “One department (
Department of Materials Processing and Control Engineering ),
two institutes ( Institute of Metal Forming and Institute of
Foundry Technology ), National Engineering Center of High -
Efficiency Rolling - Research and Center of Metal Electronic
Information Materials Engineering approved by the State
Education Ministry.
Currently, the discipline has 14 professors,
12 associate professors, 15 lecturers. Among them are 9
doctorial student supervisors, 1 special accommodated professor
engaged bythe “Yangzi River Awarding Plan”, 1 elected member of
the National “Millions of Outstanding Talents Project”, 1
awardee by “National Outstanding Youth Foundation”. In addition
to the National Engineering Center of High - Efficiency Rolling,
the discipline possesses 6 academic research directions,
including: Advanced Materials Preparation and Processing,
Materials Forming Processing Control and Simulation, Materials
Processing Theory and Structure, Plastic Working New Processing
and New Technology, Metal Solidification and Control and
Advanced Materials Advanced Welding Technology.
At present, the Department of Materials
Processing and Control Engineering and the Discipline Committee
of Materials Processing Engineering are responsible for the
organization and coordination of the teaching activities,
scientific research and education as well as plan - making for
the discipline development. Now, the leadership board consists
of 4 members, Kang Yong-lin (dean), Ren Xue-ping (leader of the
party branch), Liu Ya-zheng (vice dean), Mao Wei-min (vice
dean). The discipline committee of Materials Processing
Engineering is composed of 9 members, including Han Jing-tao
(chairman), Xie Jian-xin, kang Yong-lin, Liu Ya-zheng, Wu Chun-jing,
Wang Xian-jin, Huang Ji-hua, Mao Wei-min and Tang Di.
Materials Physics and Chemistry
Materials Physics and Chemistry is an
applied fundamental Discipline, which focuses on the research
for various materials, especially the advanced materials,
exploring the basic rules of interrelationship between the
properties and micro - structures, offering the scientific basis
for the development of high - tech and advanced materials. It is
an integrated discipline of subjects of science and engineering,
aiming to cultivate the research talents with sound fundamental
theories of Materials Science and capability of implementation
of modern research methods. This discipline is developed based
on the specialty of “Metal physics” which was established
earliest in the material research area at home. It was one of
the first groups in China to be entitled to grant the degrees
for Master and Doctor degrees domestically, one of the first
groups to be appointed as National Key Discipline, Key
Developing Discipline in “211 project”. It possesses Laboratory
of Environmental Fracture of the State Education Ministry and is
the research station for post - doctorial students. It has the
honor to have positions for special engaged professors from
overseas based the “Yangzi River Awarding Plan”. Since the
establishment of this discipline, it has become the main base
for cultivating the high level academic talents in the national
Materials Science area. Academician Ye Heng-qiang is the
distinguished representative of many excellent graduated
students.
At present, the discipline has a strong
professional team with high academic level, including 2
Academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 17 professors,
among them are 13 doctorial student supervisors, 2 experts with
the title of the national distinguished contribution scholar, 1
special engaged professor by the “Yangzi River Scholar Plan”, 1
awardee by “Outstanding Youth Foundation”, 2 members of “Talents
of Cross Century” approved by the State Education Ministry and 2
elected members by “Cultivation Plan of New Star of Beijing
Science and Technology”.
The discipline is ranking on the advanced
academic level with fruitful research results and enjoying high
reputation in the area of Material science domestically and
internationally, especially in the follow academic fields:
Materials Fracture and the Principle of Environment Induced
Fracture; Physical and Chemical Behaviors of Materials Surface
and Boundary; Physical Metallurgy Basis of Materials
Obdurability. Great attention has been payed to the fundamental
research and application of New Functional and Energy Source
Materials, such as Materials of Great Magnetic Resistance and
High Temperature Superconductors.
Currently, the discipline is carrying out 3
national important fundamental research projects (973 project,
responsible for 4 sub - projects), 4 important projects of
National Natural Science Foundation, more than 10 comprehensive
projects of National Natural Science Foundation and a great deal
of projects of ministerial and enterprises cooperation. The
materials under research are as bellow: High Temperature
Superconductors, Great Magnetic Resistance, Thin Film, Nano
Materials, Catalysts, Luminous Materials and New Generation
Structured Materials. With the fine academic atmosphere and
cherished tradition of “academe, rigorously disciplined”, many
high qualified academic papers have been published during the
past 5 years. Among them, 191 papers have been included by
“SCI”; 98 papers included by “EI”. More than 10 research results
have been awarded with the prizes at national and
provincial/ministerial levels.
The discipline of Materials Physics and
Chemistry possesses a set of precise equipment and instruments
of international advanced level, such as Atomic Force
Microscope, Electron-Chemistry Tunnel Scanning Microscope, Nano
Indenter, Transmission Electronic Microscope, High Resolution
Electronic Microscope, Field Ion Microscope - Atom Probe, X -
ray Photo - Electron Spectrum, X - ray Radiation Diffractometer,
Mossbaur Spectrum and Magnetron Sputtering System.
Introduction
of Undergraduate Specialties
Materials Science and Engineering
Materials, Information and Energy all
together consist of the three pillars of the modern civilization
society, being the substantial basis and leading force for the
development of society and technology progress. The specialty of
Materials Science and Engineering is a multi - discipline
integrated applied subjec based on the Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry, Mechanism, and Computer Applied Technique. The
specialty aims at cultivating high level talents who have sound
and broad basis knowledge, mastering materials design and the
basic rules of relationship between materials ingredient,
structures, preparation, processing and properties, being
familiar with the materials preparation and the development,
application and control of processing technology, being capable
of carrying out research and development of new materials and
new technique, materials design, production and management, as
well as teaching. The correlative fields for employment of
graduates are: industries of metallurgy, machinery, Power,
Electronics, Architectures, Military Engineering, Aviation, as
well as enterprises of advanced materials production, research
institutes and Universities.
The major courses in the specialty include:
Physical Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering
Introduction, Materials Mechanics, Materials Physics and
Chemical Properties, Materials Analysis and Measurement
Methodology, Materials Science, Functional Materials, Principle
of Powder Metallurgy, Powder Metallurgy Materials, Advanced
Preparation and Processing Technology, Computer Aided
Application in Materials Science and Engineering.
The Specialty of Materials Forming
and Processing Engineering
The specialty of Materials Forming and
Processing Engineering is an integrated and multi – discipline
of Materials Science, Forming Processing and Automatic Control
Technology. The main purposes are to research Fundamental
Theories and Technology of Various Materials Processing,
Computer Modeling and Simulation for Materials Preparation and
Forming, Mould CAD/CAM, Automatic and Intelligent Control for
Materials Forming Processing, New Materials Preparation and
Processing Technology, Advanced Materials Forming Processing
Technology and Equipment.
The specialty aims at cultivating
engineering talents with the sound basic knowledge and the
capability of application for Materials Forming Processing,
obtaining training on modern engineering, be able take up
Materials Preparation, Design and Development for Processing
Technology and Equipment, Scientific Research, Production
Management, Selling and Promotion. Main courses in the specialty
are: Introduction of Materials Science and Engineering, Basic
theories of Materials Forming, Materials Forming Processing and
Equipment, Automatic Control Basis for Materials Forming and
Production Processing, Computer Aided Engineering (CAE),
Computer Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD/CAM), Modern
Measurement, Testing and Control Technology and Enterprises
Management and Economic Analysis.
The Specialty of Materials Physics
The specialty of Material Physics is the
combination of the subjects of Science and Engineering, aiming
at cultivating students to master the fundamental theories of
Materials Science and modern research methods, the basic rules
between materials properties and micro - structure; to be
capable of doing various works on materials design, research,
manufacturing, application, improvement of properties,
development of new materials and new technology.
Main courses in this specialty include:
Alloy Thermodynamics, Materials Science, Theoretical Physics,
Solid Physics, Metal Physics, X - ray Crystallology, Electronic
Microscopy, Scientific Research Methodology for Modern Materials
and Computer Application.
The leading research directions are:
Environment Induced Fracture, Surface and Boundary of Materials,
Defects and Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Nuclear Analysis
Methods and High Temperature Superconductors, Phase Structure
and Electronic Microscopy, Energy Materials and Environmental
Materials.
The graduates from this specialty possess
sound basis of mathematics and physics, be familiar with the
related basic theories and experimental methods for materials
research and development, mastering necessary electronics
techniques and be capable of doing materials design with
computer aids. They can work in various fields, such as
Mechanism, Metallurgy, Electronics, Chemistry Engineering,
Ministry Engineering, Aviation, Instruments, or carry out
professional works for materials production, research and
development or teach and do research at Institutes or
universities.
Specialty of Inorganic nonmetallic
Materials
The field of Inorganic materials is the one
of the three major fields in the materials research area. With
the rapid development of high technology, the research and the
development of inorganic materials have been paid more and more
attention at home and abroad. The specialty focuses on
cultivating high - level engineering talents who are capable of
carrying out the works for Research, Design and Development of
Structured Ceramics, Special Refractories, Inorganic Functional
Materials and Energy Materials.
Besides high skills in the mathematics,
physics and chemistry, students have been offered fine training
in computer and research approach of Inorganic materials. The
required courses include: Silicate Physical Chemistry, Solid
Materials Structure Introduction, Thermodynamics Introduction
and Kiln Design. Other related or elective programs such as
Structured Ceramics, Refractories have been provided to students
for broadening the extension of their knowledge. Main research
directions are: Structured Ceramics ( including High Temperature
Structured Ceramics, Gradient Functional Materials ) and
Computer Aided Design for Special Refractories, Preparation
Processing, Structures, Properties and Obdurability of Advanced
Materials, Combustion Compound Theories and Processing
Technology, Solid Electrolyte Sensor, High Energy Fuel
Batteries, Inorganic Smart Materials, New Processing Research
for Superfine Powders and Nano Materials.
The graduates from this specialty have been
required by the scientific research institutes, universities and
enterprises, who can carry out works of research, teaching,
computer software development and management in the Inorganic
Nonmetallic Materials research area.
Faculty Stuff
Directions of
research
Department of Materials Science
Materials Optimization and Design
Magnetic Materials and Application
Application Basis for Advanced Structure Materials
Advanced Materials Basis and Materials Anisotropism.
Department of Materials Processing and Control
Engineering
Advanced Materials Preparation and
Processing
Materials Forming Processing Control and Simulation
New Processing and New Technology for Plastic Working
Materials Processing Theories and Structure Control
Metal Solidification and Control
Advanced Materials Welding Technology
Department of Materials Physics and
Chemistry
Environment Induced Cracking
Crystal Defects and New Generation Structure Materials
Materials Micro - Structure and Electronic StructureMaterials
Surface and Crystal Boundary
Nano Structured Materials and Technology
Department of Inorganic Nonmetallic
Materials
Advanced Ceramic Materials and Technology
Inorganic Nonmetallic Functional Materials
Inorganic Nonmetallic Structure Materials
Institute of Powder Metallurgy
Materials Compound Preparation and Composite
Materials
Advanced Powder Shaping Technology and Nano Materials
Institute of Functional Materials
High Technique Functional Thin Film
Materials
Magnetic Functional Materials
Micro - Electronic Sealing Materials and Processing
Materials for Biological Medical Materials
Corrosion and Protection Center
High Temperature Corrosion and Surface
Engineering
Systematic Engineering for Corrosion Control
Electrochemistry Engineering and Materials
Center of
Experiment and Testing
Materials Micro -
Structure, Phase Transformation and Electronic Micrology
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