School of Metallurgy and Environment is an important secondary school of Central South University. Traditional disciplines and emerging disciplines complement each other and enjoy a long-standing reputation. Its predecessor, Nonferrous Metallurgy Department, was founded in 1952. It was formed after the metallurgical departments of Wuhan University and Hunan University merged into Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Its school history can be traced back to 1906. Its talent training quality and scientific and technological achievements are well-known at home and have an important influence internationally. Cheng, Party Secretary of the College, and Chai Liyuan, Dean.
The faculty of the college is strong, and there are currently faculty members 170, including full-time teachers 146, including 82 full-time professors (2 first-class professors, 20 second-class professors and 7 third-class professors) and 56 associate professors. There are 6 academicians of China Academy of Engineering (including 4 part-time professors), 5 Changjiang scholars, 3 national outstanding young people, 6 national talent plans, 4 national young talents 1 1 person, new century talents of Ministry of Education 165438, and 0 furong scholars.
The college actively explores a new mode of personnel training, with full-time students 190 1 person, including undergraduates 1053, 570 master students and 278 doctoral students. There are three undergraduate majors (metallurgical engineering, environmental engineering, new energy materials and devices), among which metallurgical engineering and new energy materials and devices are the construction points of national specialty, metallurgical engineering is the pilot specialty of national comprehensive professional reform and the first batch of majors in the "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education, and environmental engineering has passed the national professional certification of engineering education. Two national engineering practice education centers have been established, which were awarded 1 national excellent course (metallurgical process principle) and 1 provincial excellent course (metallurgical equipment science) successively. Since 1985, it has won the 16 provincial and ministerial education reform achievement award. Since 1978, textbooks, monographs and teaching reference books have been published 1 13, and 27 textbooks and monographs have been edited. Up to now, it has trained nearly 10,000 graduates, sent a large number of senior technical and management talents to China's metallurgical industry and other related industries, and trained a large number of well-known experts and scholars for related universities and scientific research institutions.