The School of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering is currently the college with the strongest educational strength, the highest educational level and the most outstanding educational characteristics of Kunming University of Science and Technology. It is the only "five-star" college in the school. After years of construction, the two disciplines of metallurgy and energy have become important bases for high-level talent training, scientific research and social services in my country, making important contributions to national and local economic construction, scientific research and talent training. In the structural system of the School of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, the Metallurgical Engineering major is a national first-class specialty and a provincial key major. A large number of outstanding scientists in the scientific community have emerged, represented by four academicians: Xu Zuyao, Yin Zhiwen, Zhang Guocheng and Dai Yongnian. talents, and also cultivated a number of provincial and municipal leading cadres and entrepreneurs. Thermal energy and power engineering major is a provincial key major. It also has a solid research foundation and a relatively complete talent training system in the fields of energy conversion, thermal power, hydropower and thermal automation.
At present, the college has formed distinctive disciplines such as vacuum metallurgy, unconventional metallurgy, metallurgical melt (solution) physical chemistry, heavy non-ferrous metal smelting, metallurgical process intensification and energy conservation and emission reduction, and new energy preparation. Direction; It has 1 national key discipline, 1 provincial key discipline, 1 provincial key discipline, 1 postdoctoral mobile station, 1 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization point, and first-level discipline master's degree There is 1 degree authorization point; it has a number of scientific research institutions such as the National Engineering Laboratory, the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory, and the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center; it has national and provincial undergraduate experimental teaching demonstration centers and other teaching platforms; it has national and provincial level There are 1 teaching team at the and school level each; 10 innovation teams at the provincial and school levels; 14 research platforms at the national, provincial and school levels; 1 international cooperation research room; It has an enterprise cooperation platform; it has a number of academic and technical leaders including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, and national new century talents; it undertakes a number of national, provincial and ministerial level teaching and research projects every year. A large number of scientific research, teaching results and patented technologies have been obtained. The "continuous spiral crystallization and melting machine" invented by Professor Li Mengeng is known as "one of the greatest inventions of tin metallurgy in the 20th century"; the "internally heated multi-stage continuous distillation vacuum furnace" and "horizontal vacuum furnace" invented by Academician Dai Yongnian "93 units/sets have been promoted and applied at home and abroad, creating an output value of more than 2 billion yuan.
The college currently has 131 faculty members. Among them, there are 78 teachers in the Department of Metallurgy, 22 teachers in the Department of Energy, and 13 teachers in the Experiment Center. Among the full-time teachers, there are 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 22 professors, 25 associate professors; 12 doctoral supervisors and 25 master's supervisors; 34 teachers with doctoral degrees; 37 teachers with master's degrees; and 22 talents of various types, including , 3 experts with government subsidies from the State Council, 5 national new century talents, 1 provincial distinguished professor, 5 provincial young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, 6 provincial academic and technical leaders, and provincial innovation There are 1 talented person and 2 provincial-level outstanding teachers. It has successively undertaken a large number of national, provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects such as the national “973” plan, the “863” plan, the National Natural Science Foundation of China key projects, and the national science and technology support projects. It has an ongoing research fund of more than 30 million yuan and won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. , second prize for technological invention and multiple provincial and ministerial level science and technology and teaching achievement awards.
The development of the college adheres to subject construction as the leader, undergraduate teaching and postgraduate teaching as the foundation, and scientific research as the core. It combines the discipline characteristics and advantages of the college to optimize resource allocation, continuously improve school conditions, and continuously improve the level of scientific research. and teaching quality, and gradually build the college into a research-oriented college with outstanding disciplinary characteristics and strong scientific research strength.