The precursor of Schooll of Energy and Power Engineering is the Department of Power Engineering, one of three earliest divisions established by our university. And it was independent from others in 2011. With its development about 70 years, the highlights have been formed in many fields, such as marine engineering, marine power plant, control of cabin environment, control of noise and vibration, renewable energy and saving energy, etc.
The Schooll currently has four master's degree authorization centers--power engineering, marine engineering, heat and gas and ventilation and air conditioning engineering, hydro-acoustic engineering; two engineering masters training fields--naval architecture and ocean engineering, civil engineering and architecture; four full-time undergraduate majors--energy and power engineering, marine engineering, building environment and energy application engineering, nuclear technique and engineering; three adult educational bachelor programs; two upgrade bachelor programs and three specialized professional programs of which “Marine Engineering” is the key construction field of provincial key major and superior disciplines “Naval Architecture and Ocean”. “Energy and Power Engineering” is the Schooll-level characteristic major. “Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering” is key major of Jiangsu Province. The Schooll undertakes three Province-level engineering centers--engineering technology center of marine air-conditioning and refrigeration of Jiangsu Province, engineering technology center of marine measurement and control of Jiangsu Province engineering technology center of marine vibration damping equipment of Jiangsu Province, 7 graduate workstation of enterprises of Jiangsu Province.
The School comprises three divisions: department of marine engineering, department of power engineering, department of man-made environment; one student’s engineering training center; five research institutions: institute of marine engineering, institute of noise and vibration, institute of power machinery and engineering, institute of air conditioning refrigeration and building energy conservation, institute of new energy technology and equipment. It includes the dean office, academic office and student’s affairs office. There are in total 50 staff members, including 7 professors, 15 associate professors, 1 senior experimentalist and 19 lecturers or experimentalists. 1 leader of the “Blue Project” team in Jiangsu Province; 1 young and middle-aged leader of the “333 Project”; 1 high-level personnel training in Jiangsu Province; 1 young and middle-aged academic leaders of “Blue Project”; 2 outstanding young teachers of “Blue Project”. It formed a Reasonable structure of teaching staff and characteristic academic echelons. The research ability of the Schooll is enhanced constantly. With the advantages in the shipbuilding industry, the Schooll set up a scientific research system united fundamental research, application research in advance and engineering application. It has undertaken more 100 commercial research or public and government-sponsored research projects, including National Natural Science Foundation, National Defense Pre-research Foundation, Natural Science Foundation. Of Jiangsu, Project of the Significant Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements of Jiangsu, etc. It was awarded 40 various scientific research achievements or invention patents.
The Schooll has a provincial experimental teaching demonstration center--Center of student’s engineering training, a Schooll-level experimental teaching demonstration center--energy and power engineering center. Under the engineering training center, there are 5 labs: basic thermotechnical lab, power plant lab, building environment and energy application engineering lab, noise and vibration lab. At present, there is a comprehensive experimental bench for testing performance of marine diesel engine and auxiliary equipment; a platform for monitoring and diagnosing the performance of marine power plant; a combustion analysis system for power plant; portable infrared gas analyzer; an Integrated simulation operating system for marine engineering; a virtual reality 3D visualization of digital systems for marine engineering; a enthalpy difference lab; a German-made portable VCR thermal imager; a Danish-made B & K test and analysis system for vibration and noise; an experimental bench of vibration compacting; an anechoic chamber ect. The labs are equipped with High performance computing service cluster workstation and softwares such as STAR-CD、AVL EXITE(POWER UNITE)、BOOST、FIRE、NASTRAN、ANSYS、COMSOL Multiphysics and so on.
At present, the Schooll has about 1, 000 undergraduates and postgraduates. It cooperates with China Unicom, the Pacific Shipbuilding Corp. Ltd., GL Education Trust, Kyle of welding Ltd., NK to set up the scholarships. The School Pays attention to cultivating practical and innovative abilities and expanding students' comprehensive qualities so that the students strong in those regards would receive favourable comments from the employers. The average employment rate is above 98% each year.