The College has a team of academic leaders with innovative spirit including academicians, Changjiang Scholars and National Distinguished Young Scholars. Among the more than 160 staffs of the college, there are one academician of the Academy of engineering, one double-employed academician by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), 16 high-level talents such as Changjiang Scholars Chair Professors, and the winner of the national fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 973 Program Chief Scientists, one Nationally Outstanding Teacher, four winner of Outstanding Beijing Teachers award, four Outstanding Teachers of Beijing, and sixteen New Century Talents awarded by the Ministry of Education. Of all the full-time teachers, there are 70 Doctoral tutors and more than 130 Full or Associate Professors, with 80% of them being young or middle-aged teachers with Doctoral Degrees.
The College attaches importance to educational reform and innovation with a view to building a high-level talent cultivation system. At present, the College boasts a National-level Chemical Engineering Teaching Team, a National-level Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and an Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Chemical Engineering for Higher Education Institutions in Beijing. After years of development, our Chemical Engineering and Technology has become a National-level Characteristic specialty, our Energy Chemical Engineering among the first batch of Undergraduate Specialties Geared for National Strategic Emerging Industries as well as a National-level Characteristic specialty, and our Environmental Engineering a Characteristic specialty of Beijing. The College also attaches great importance to teaching research. In recent years, it has undertaken five educational reform projects at the Provincial or Ministerial level, won twelve education and teaching awards at the national, Provincial or Ministerial levels, developed two National Essential Courses and three Essential Courses of Beijing, and published ten textbooks under the categories of National-level Textbooks for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, Excellent Textbooks of the Ministry of Education, and Excellent Textbooks of Beijing.
Guided and driven by major national needs, the College has developed the three-in-one innovation system of “basic research—technological innovation—engineering application” featuring pioneering and interdisciplinary research. We have in place a first-class research platform and base in China and an Innovation Research Group funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, which is so far the only one for the discipline of Chemical Engineering in China. We have a number of research facilities under joint operations, including the State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, the Research Center of the Ministry of Education for Higher Gravity Engineering and Technology, the Research Center of Beijing Higher Education Institutions for Environmental Pollution Control and Resource Engineering, and the Beijing Key Laboratory of Membrane Science and Technology, etc. In recent years, the College has undertaken more than 100 research projects of the 973 Program, the 863 Program, the National Sci-Tech Support Plan, and the National Natural Science Foundation. The annual research funds average at eighty million, the annual publications of SCI papers average at 170, and the annual applications of national and international patents at about forty. We have received more than twenty important awards including the National Award for Technological Invention, the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology, and those given by the Ministry of Education or the Beijing Municipal Government. With our teaching and research strengths spread into the fields of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Technology, Industrial Catalysis, Nano Materials and Nanotechnology, Energy Chemical Engineering, Resource Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Applied Chemistry, etc., we have become an important base for the education of China’s advanced chemical engineering talents as well as scientific research and technological development.
