Graduates of this major have a wide range of employment and strong adaptability, mainly facing the power industry, and can be engaged in the design, construction, commissioning, production and operation of power plants. The main employers are power generation companies, electric power research institutes, electric power design institutes and electric power construction enterprises.

This professional field is closely related to human production and life, and has a long history. It belongs to one of the three frontier fields of energy, information and materials in the economic development of 2/kloc-0 century.

With the increasing demand for electricity in today's social life, the urgent demand for heat energy transmission and control by high and new technologies such as electronic technology, computer technology and material science, and the increasingly prominent problems of resources, environment and ecology, the theoretical and technical workers of power engineering are facing new challenges, which will surely make new breakthroughs in many aspects such as efficient use of energy, clean combustion, remote energy saving and automatic control, heat energy transmission and control, and have a great impact on human civilization in the future.