School of Materials Science & Engineering

The School of Materials Science and Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University includes two teaching division of Materials Science and Metallic Materials & Heat treatment, the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, the Open Laboratory of Education Ministry for High Temperature Materials and Tests, which comprise the Department of Materials Science; the Foundry Institute, the Welding Technology Institute, the Surface Engineering Institute, which comprise the Department of Materials Engineering, the Institute of Composite Materials and the State Key Laboratory for Metallic Matrix Composite Materials. The School of Materials Science and Engineering was the earliest one among those in national university, and has gained fame for its achievements in education, research and development in materials field.

The school offers the doctorate degree and post-doctorate research programs of the first grade subject of “Materials Science and Engineering”. The first subject comprises three second subjects of “Materials Physics and Chemistry”, “Materials Science” and “Materials Processing Engineering”. All of them can offer the doctorate degree, master degree and master degree of engineering. The original subject of “Metallic Materials and Heat Treatment” from “Materials Science” was the key subject of higher education. The project of “the Advanced Composite Materials and High Temperature Materials” was included in the “211 Engineering” of the key subject construction.

The faculty is a diverse group of about 217 members. There are 121 teachers, among which there are 29 professors (2 Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, 22 doctorate supervisors), 52 associate professors and 30 lectures. There are also 9 chief engineers equivalent to professor, 21 senior engineers, 24 engineers, 38 technicians and workers.

The school has 88 graduate students for master degree, 75 doctorate candidates and 480 students. There are 40 courses and 15 experimental courses for students, 21 courses for graduate students and 11 courses for doctorate candidates.

The faculty of the school includes many rich experienced old scholars whose reputation has been distinguished, many middle- and young-aged staffs, who received the doctorate degree and post-doctorate research programs, being a mainstay in teaching and scientific research. The State Key Laboratory for Metallic Matrix Composite Materials, the Open Laboratory for High Temperature Materials and Tests, the Foundry Laboratory, the Welding Laboratory, and so on, occupies 7500 m2 and offer excellent equipment and instruments for scientific research.

The school have been undertaking projects on grants from the National Natural Science Foundation, the National "863" projects and the National 6th-5 year projects , 7th-5 year projects, 8th-5 year projects and 9th-5 year key projects. In addition, they carried out a lot of projects of research, development and consultation service collaborated with enterprises. The annual finance of the school for scientific research arrived at 14 million. The school is very active in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. Lots of research achievements reached at or surpassed the international advanced level. Since 1978, the school achieved above 120 prizes of scientific and technological progress, among which there were 7 National Invention Prizes, 8 Prizes of National Scientific and Technological Progress, 1 Prize of National Natural Science and 91 Prizes of Scientific and Technological Progress of Shanghai and of Ministry.

>>>Degree Programs:
Bachelor's Degree:
    Materials Science & Engineering

Master's Degree:
    Materials Physics and Chemistry
    Materials Science
    Materials Processing Engineering

Doctor's Degree:
    Materials Physics and Chemistry
    Materials Science
    Materials Processing Engineering

Program for undergraduate students

Since 1998, the students in the School of Materials Science and Engineering began to study for Bachelor degree in the subject of “Materials Science and Engineering”. An emphasis is focused on the basic knowledge in the lectures and the cultivation of creative ability for students. In order to extend the specialty knowledge, inorganic nonmetallic and polymer materials science is introduced in the courses for students, and the cultivation of “complex persons” is emphasized. In setting of courses, there are total 2500 hours of lectures within 4 years. The hours of lectures per week are less than 23 hours in year 1 and 2, and less than 21 hours in year 3 and 4. The percentage of lecturing hours of common basic courses and special basic courses are about 70%; the percentage of selected special courses with a limitation in the school are about 15~18% and the selected courses without limitations in the university are 12~15%. The CAI are extensively adopted in teaching methods. The emphasis is on raising specialty interests and lecturing effects. The students are encouraged to continue their study for the Double Degree, Master Degree and Master Degree of Engineering.

Program for graduate students

According to the "Specialty Index and Program on Cultivation of Graduate Students and Leading to the Doctorate Degree and Master Degree" issued by the National Committee of Assessing Academic Degree for Candidates and the Education Ministry and combining with the practical issues in the school, the cultivating programs for doctorate candidates and graduate students for Master Degree and Master Degree of Engineering have been set.

The principles of "Science, Creation, Extended and Multi-level" are demonstrated in research fields. The original character and superiority in research areas of the school are maintained while the advanced research fields are established according to the developing trends of subjects with special attention to the joint and frontier of the materials science fields.

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( Material Processing Engineering )

Professor He Defu, Doctor tutor
The capital of welding institute of material engineering department of Shanghai JiaoTong Uiversity from 1989 to 1997.
Main Research Direction :Control of welding process;Dynamic modelling;Welding automation;Application of welding power and electrical-electronic technology. Mr He not only has given profound research for the technology of continuous welding pipe of stainless steel and the quality monitoring and controlling for it,but has been at the leading level in the whole nation on research for automatic control of welding process,and he has designed a number of welding production streams and special equippments for welding pipe?motorcycle and automobile manufacturing industries.
Mr. He has published nearly fifty articles inside and outside China?In addition,he once was the main editor of «Introduction in Welding and Joining»(the emphasized teaching material for Shanghai universal colleges during the nineth five-years-scheme),and anticipated in compiling many books including «Arc Welding»?«Assemble of articles on Welding Automation»?«Welding Technician Handbook»?«Modern Welding Handbook»,and so on. Morever,he has accepted and completed more than twenty scientific research projects.

Professor Wang Jianhua, doctor tutor former chairman of Dept. of Material Engineering.
His main research interests concern welding processes modeling and numerical prediction.
He has engaged in application and spread of numerical simulation methods.
Prof. Wang has successively made cooperative research works with Sweden Lucea Industry University, JWRI, Daikin Limited Co. on mechanics behavior of thermal elasto-plastic FEM of welding processes, post welding local heat treatment, welding deformation of spot welding of compressor, and et al.
He has already published more than 120 theses in internal and external publications.
He has written many authoritative books, such as:
Application of Numerical Analysis in Welding
Welding Structure Design Handbook
He has accepted and completed more than 20 scientific research projects in recent ten years with varied awards.

Professor Zhou Yaohe
Ph.D.from Moscow Institute of Steel,
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science
Professor of both Shanghai Jiao Tong University an Northwestern Polytechnical University.
Zhou Yaohe has long been working on the researches in foundry engineering, solidification theory and solidification processing. He has been the initiator and organizer of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing and advanced a new theoretical frame for the principle of structure formation in constrained growth. Creative achievements in researches on solidification interface kinetics and pattern selection, high undercooling and rapid solidification of liquid metals and advanced casting techniques have been made.
Research fields: Solidification theory, Environmental materials, Science and technology of the advanced materials fabrication.

Prof. Ding Wenjiang
Research Direction: Precision liquid forming of metal?pBase research on material science?pSustainable development strategy research?pDevelopment and research of quick manufacturing technique and product engineering.
Research fields: (1)Research and development of light high strength alloy. Include material design?pmanufacturing technology and equipment research. (2) Representation and simulation of material property and state change process. (3)CAD/CAM/CAE of cast model and cast technology. (4) Design and manufacturing of all kinds of complicated mould. Include rapid prototyping?prapid tool molding?prapid reverse engineering and quick casting.

Professor QI Ziyang
Main research fields: Mechanization and Automation of Welding process, adaptive control technologies of are welding robotics, and Precision Welding Technologies represented by Ultrasonic welding . DC pulse welding.