Tsinghua University Department of Materials Science

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering was established in 1988, which was formed by the former teaching and research group of materials physics in department of engineering physics, the former teaching and research group of metallic materials in department of mechanical engineering and the teaching and research group of inorganic nonmetallic materials in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Over the past ten years, with the care and support of relevant state departments and schools and the joint efforts of all faculty members, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has become one of the talent training and scientific research bases of similar departments in domestic universities with complete disciplines and strong comprehensive strength.

Tsinghua University now has 12 colleges and 44 departments. Among them, the departments of environmental science and engineering, electrical engineering and applied electronic technology, department of engineering physics, chemical engineering and materials science and engineering are independent departments, and other departments are managed by the college. Material science is one of the main disciplines in the world today. According to the principle of broadening the foundation and specialty, the Department of Materials has only one undergraduate major-Material Science and Engineering, including five disciplines: material physics, metal physics, inorganic non-metallic materials, composite materials and electronic materials, and has the right to award doctoral and master's degrees in materials physics and chemistry, material science, nuclear fuel cycle and materials. There are four academicians in this department. The department has the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Ceramics and Fine Technology. 1997 the institute of materials science and engineering was established, with the department of materials as the main body, the departments of chemical engineering, physics, nuclear research institute, department of mechanical engineering, chemistry and other related research forces as the dean, and academician Zhu Jing. The current dean is Professor Nan Cewen.