Introduction toCollegeof Materials Science&Engineering, Chongqing University

TheCollegeof Materials Science&Engineering of Chongqing University originated from the former Department of Metallurgy, the second Department of Mechanical Engineering of Chongqing University and the former Department of Building Materials Engineering of Chongqing Jianzhu University.At present, theCollege has two first-level disciplines: material science and engineering and metallurgical engineering, among which material science is a state key discipline and iron and steel metallurgy is a state key (cultivation) discipline.The College has three undergraduate majors, including material science and engineering, material forming and control engineering and metallurgical engineering.Currently, there are 243 on-the-job faculty members, among whom 183 are full-time teachers.There are 1,423 undergraduate students and 1,041 doctoral and postgraduate students.The College is staffed withacademicians and othernational high-level personnelintroduced from 1000-talentsplans, the Yangtze-Riverscholars,outstanding youth plans, and 10000-talentsplan, has undertakenmore than 1500 national and provincial projectsincludingthe national key projects ofresearch and development,projects fromnational "973plan", special major projectsof national major instrument,and projects frominternational cooperation.The College has been awardedmore than 80 national and provincial awards,hasbuilt a batch of high level scientific research bases such asnational engineering research center for magnesium alloys,andthe international first-class electronic microscope center .

In the past five years, especially since the construction of "double first-class", under theauspice of Chongqing University, theCollegehas made great progress in all aspects of its work.With introduction and cultivationsimultaneously, the constructionwork of faculty team has achievedsignificant results,with a newly-addedacademician,twodistinguished professorsfromYangtze-River scholars, three talentsfrom 10000-Talentplan,onenational excellentyouth expert,oneYangtzeRiver youthscholar,two introduced experts from abroad,forming a leading high-level personnelcommunityhaving both ability and political integrity,withmulti-discipline, internationalization and reasonableoptimization ofage structure.The College has vigorously promotededucation and teaching reform, the establishment of an international talent training systemwith goodresults.Materialsscience andengineering and metallurgicalengineering have been approved as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites and have passed engineering education professional certification.Chongqing University - Canada UBC Material Experimental Class was founded, and all the first batch of graduates entered the top 100 world famous QS universities for postgraduate study. The long-term mechanism of all-round and multi-level postgraduate joint training was established with Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Danish University of Technology and other universities, which stronglyboosted the rapid development of advantageous disciplines.The competitiveness of academic research has been greatly improved and a series of major breakthroughs have been made to serve the national major strategic needs.In 2019,the Collegebecame the first college ofChongqing University whose annual scientific researchbudgetexceededRMB100 million yuan.The first 3Dtransmission electron microscope with the functions of 3Dorientation reconstruction and 3D derivative image reconstruction was developed, and the world's first spin high resolution low energy microscope was developed, by which the magnetic resolution was 7 times higher than the minimum resolution reported in international reports.As the corresponding author,the Collegehas published many high-level academic papers in the main journals and sub-journals of Science and Nature.The Collegehas won 6 provincial and ministerial first prizes and 1 international prize and formulated more than 10 international and domestic standards.Oneinnovation groupwas approved by theNationalNaturalScienceFoundation,two innovation teams ofthe important fieldsapproved by Ministry of Science& Technologyof China.

The College has newly founded three platforms sponsored bynewnational light metals research center,111 talent-introducing base under theMinistry of Educationof China, and the joint laboratoryoflight alloy.The SCI Journal "Journal of MagnesiumandAlloys"hosted by the College haswonthe national first batch of leading journals, ranked fifth in the international journals,which has robustly enhancedthe College’sinternational status.Today, theCollege has completedisciplineorientation,a closecombinationof teaching and research with application,a good integration ofindustrial chain, among them, the characterization of light alloy materials and advanced technologyshow an obviousadvantage,andenjoy international reputation, has become one of the world's three largest magnesium alloy development base. The ESI of material science of ChongqingUniversity, with the College as the main bodyis ranked among the global top one thousand, providingimportant supportfor Chongqing University’s"doublefirst-class"construction.The Collegehas trained a number of outstanding talents, who have demonstrated their skills in many major national projects in many major fields, such asMrs.Zhang Baolan, an outstanding contributor to the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, and won honors forthe College.

After eighty years of journey, with the unremitting efforts of teachers and students from generation to generation, theCollege has developed into one of the materials colleges with a complete educational system and top overall strength in China, and has become a highland for the cultivation of innovative talents in the materials field with important international influence.