Kunming University of Science and Technology is a subordinate department of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering College.

The Department of Metallurgical Engineering is one of the oldest departments in Kunming University of Science and Technology, and the discipline of Metallurgical Engineering is one of the distinctive and advantageous disciplines in our university. After decades of construction and development, the Department of Metallurgical Engineering has become one of the important bases for high-level personnel training and scientific research in the metallurgical field in China. Its comprehensive strength ranks at the leading level in China and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. Graduates are distributed in production, scientific research, design units and colleges and universities in metallurgical and related fields throughout the country. A large number of outstanding talents represented by Xu Zuyao, Yin Zhiwen, Zhang Guocheng and Dai Yongnian emerged among the graduates.

The Department of Metallurgical Engineering has a national key discipline of nonferrous metallurgy 1, a provincial key discipline of metallurgical engineering 1, and a provincial key discipline of metallurgical physical chemistry 1. Postdoctoral mobile station 1 unit; Have authorized doctoral and master's degrees in metallurgical engineering, and have authorized doctoral and master's degrees in nonferrous metallurgy, metallurgical physical chemistry and steel metallurgy 10, and authorized fields of master's degree in engineering 1 0; Recruit teachers from institutions of higher learning to study for master's degrees on the job; National "first-class specialty construction site" 1 each, provincial key specialty 1 each; It has five national teaching and research platforms, five provincial platforms, three university platforms, 1 international cooperation laboratory and 1 school-enterprise cooperation platform, and has several national, provincial and university-level teaching innovation teams.

The Department of Metallurgical Engineering has formed research directions in scientific research, such as vacuum metallurgy, metallurgy in special fields, energy saving and emission reduction in metallurgical process, hydrometallurgy in metallurgical process, physical chemistry and so on. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 100 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, with an average annual scientific research funding of 100 million yuan. It won 3 national science and technology awards, Yunnan Outstanding Contribution Award 1, more than 30 provincial and ministerial awards, and more than 50 national invention patents, among which the internally heated multistage continuous distillation vacuum furnace and continuous crystallizer were praised as "one of the great inventions of tin metallurgical industry in the 20th century" by metallurgical circles at home and abroad. Promote the transfer of technical achievements 10, and create economic benefits of hundreds of millions of yuan. He has published more than 30 academic monographs and teaching materials, and published more than 1 and 100 academic papers, among which more than 300 articles have been included in international authoritative academic retrieval journals such as SCI, EI and ISTP.