Hohai University School of Electrical Engineering was formerly the Department of Automation and the Department of Electric Power. After the college entrance examination system was restored, the first undergraduate major in industrial automation was enrolled in early 1978 (Grade 77). 1987 set up the department of electrical engineering, and 1995 changed to the school of electrical engineering. The college consists of three departments: Power Engineering Department, Automation Engineering Department and Electronic Information Engineering Department. Two experimental centers: electrical and electronic experimental center and electrical automation experimental center; And an electrical automation research institute.

The college has three undergraduate majors (electrical engineering and automation, automation, electronic information engineering), doctoral programs and five master programs (power system and automation, power electronics and power transmission, control theory and control engineering, test and measurement technology and instruments, agricultural electrification and automation). At the same time, the college recruits students to train master's and postgraduate courses in electrical engineering and control engineering, power system and automation, and recruits people who are studying for master's degrees in colleges and universities. At present, there are more than 200 undergraduate students 1.200 graduate students 1.80, and the scale of graduate education is increasing by about 20% every year.