At present, the main research directions of the discipline include the structure and performance of road materials, the development and application of new road materials, chemical surface heat treatment of materials, thermal spraying technology, wear-resistant spray welding technology and coating research, micro-arc oxidation surface technology of light alloys, nano-materials, functional materials, environmental materials, biomaterials, energy materials, mineral composite materials and so on. Especially, it has strong research strength in the development and application of cement concrete pavement materials, asphalt and asphalt mixture materials, soil reinforcement and semi-rigid pavement base materials, and new road materials. It is at the domestic advanced level in surface engineering and wear-resistant materials research, and has obvious characteristics in the fields of heat insulation materials, composite sealing materials and fiber concrete materials. In the past three years, the college has undertaken nearly 40 national and provincial key projects, won 22 awards at or above the provincial level, and won 29 patents for inventions and utility models. Teachers have published more than 400 academic papers in core journals and foreign journals, including nearly 200 by EI and more than 50 by SCI.

The College of Materials Science and Engineering is developing in unity, facing the future and full of vitality. In the development and construction, relying on the advantageous subject groups such as highway transportation, land resources and environment, and architectural engineering, we will further tap the subject resources, straighten out the research direction, and strive to build the college into a teaching and research-oriented college with distinctive characteristics and outstanding advantages in the field of materials, especially transportation engineering materials, ecological environment, mineral materials and other fields, and have certain influence in China.