Discipline

Energy and environment are two themes that people in the world are most concerned about. Energy, a strategic and public resource, has been listed as engineering science that needs prospective and systematic studies in the national plans of China. Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, a first-level discipline of USST, is dedicated to the research of energy use and energy development, as well as the efficiency of energy utilization. Strategies of energy, energy conservation and emission reduction are very important for the national development. They also embody the national competitiveness in the international community. China is a major energy consumer, and the energy consumption per unit of major industrial equipment is significantly higher than that of developed countries. Therefore, advanced energy power equipment play a very important role in solving national development of energy, new energy, and energy conservation and emission reduction. National and local plans such as "National Energy 13th Five-Year Development Plan", "National Innovation Driven Development Strategy Outline", "13th Five-Year National Science and Technology Innovation Plan", "13th Five-Year National Strategic Emerging Industry Development Plan", "Made in China 2025", "13th Five-Year Plan for Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction", and the plans for building Shanghai into a Science and Technology Innovation Center with international recognition have made blueprints for scientific research and equipment manufacturing in the energy sector. The discipline aims to study the fundamental principles for energy conversion and utilization in a clean and efficient way, and to explore the methods for designing, manufacturing and operating these equipment and systems. This first-level doctoral program discipline covers second-level doctoral programs such as thermal engineering, refrigeration and cryogenic engineering, power machinery and engineering, engineering thermophysics, fluid machinery and engineering, new energy science and engineering, energy and environmental engineering, and chemical process machinery and etc. In line with national energy strategy, energy conservation and emission reduction, and environmental protection, etc., the discipline plays a significant role in national economy, social development, people's life and scientific research.

This first-level discipline has established a complete system for cultivating talents of undergraduate, master, doctoral, and post-doctoral level. It was approved to offer undergraduate programs in 1960. At present, it has three undergraduate programs: “Energy and power engineering”, “New energy science and engineering”, and “Process equipment and control engineering”. In 1981, it was the first batch disciplines that were approved to offer master's programs in China. In 1984, it was conferred the right to offer a doctoral degree in thermal engineering. In 1986, it was approved to offer doctoral degrees in refrigeration and cryogenic engineering, power machinery and engineering, and engineering thermophysics. In 1998, the discipline was the first batch to offer first-level doctoral programs in China. In 1990, it was approved to establish a mobile post-doctoral station, covering all the 6 second-level doctoral programs. Three more self-designed doctoral programs of the second level discipline were established later. In 2017, for its outstanding achievements in serving national defense and the aviation industry, it was approved to establish a new discipline ---- aerodynamics, a characteristic discipline serving the national defense. As a key discipline of the former Ministry of Machinery Industry, the first-level discipline was rated as Shanghai key discipline (Phase I) in 2001. The second-level discipline “Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering” was rated as the key discipline of Shanghai (Phase II, III). In 2012, the first level discipline was approved as the first-class discipline of Shanghai. In 2015, it was approved as the discipline supported by “Shanghai Plateau Discipline Construction Program”. So far, this discipline has trained 15,000 undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. It has won 4 National Science and Technology Awards, and 40 provincial and ministerial level awards such as the first prize of Shanghai Technology Invention Award, and 2 national teaching achievement awards.

To ensure the efficient and healthy development of the discipline, keep its research in the right track, guarantee the rationality of funding, and its leading edge research content, a new mode for organization and operation has been formed. That is, the International Laboratory of Advanced Energy Power Equipment is established to perform the overall management; the academic committee performs supervision and offering guidance in choosing research direction, each sub-laboratory operates independently, ensuring that its autonomy and vitality are brought into full play.The organizational framework is as followed:

Establishing an international advisory committee for the International Laboratory of Advanced Energy Power Equipment, it takes charge of the strategic planning, policy making, and reviewing of the laboratory. The members of the committee include:

• Mr. Javad Mostaghimi (Distinguished Professor of the University of Toronto);

• Professor Wang Li of the Berkeley Lawrence National Laboratory;

• Professor Groll of Purdue University, USA, and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Engineering (FEIC);

• Dr. Christof Schulz, Professor of Duisburg-Essen University, Germany (winner of the German Research Excellence Award "Leibnitz Award");

• Professor Zhao Tianshou of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;

• Professor Xu Jianzhong, an internationally renowned professor of Aerodynamics, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;

• Professor Zheng Ping, an Internationally renowned Engineering Thermophysics expert, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;

• Professor Lin Zonghu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and head of the School of Energy and Power Engineering.

  (1) Appointing laboratory directors: it has appointed Kang Shun and Sun Xiaofeng as directors of the laboratory.

  (2) Establishing 4 innovation research teams: Four teams are established according to the corresponding research directions of the discipline, adopting the PI system. The four research teams are as followed:

  (1) The team of Turbine Mechanical Flow Control and Detection Technology, team leader: Professor Huang Diangui

  (2) The team of Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering Technology and Equipment, team leader: Professor Zhang Hua

  (3) The team of Clean Energy Technology and Equipment, team leader: Professor Yang Mo

  (4) The team of Industrial Emission Pollution Control Technology, team leader: Professor Huang Yuandong

  The discipline has been leading the construction of demonstration major for Excellent Engineering in energy and power engineering. Revolving around the construction of first-class disciplines, it has been exploring the reform of postgraduate training mode by continuously promoting the collaborative training of postgraduates between USST and other eight institutes of the machinery industry (“one university, eight institutes model”). By expanding the cooperation with renowned foreign universities, it has been devoted to cultivating talents with an international vision. The discipline has been cultivating National Science and Technology Awards in the fields of gas turbines, refrigeration and cryogenic engineering. It has been promoting the work of Shanghai Research Institute of Machinery Industry, providing key technical support for major projects like Shanghai Gas Turbine and National Aerospace Power. It has established an international laboratory of energy and power.

  Through training and introducing high-level talents, cultivating national key projects, and by means of school-enterprise, school-school cooperation, the discipline has established an international advanced research platform to address the key and core issues in the field of energy science to explore the common technical issues that leads the industry progress, and key issues concerning regional economy and social development. The discipline aims at ranking the first class in the world by 2015.

Contact informaton：

zhanghua@usst.edu.cn

The research of the discipline include: turbine mechanical flow control and detection technology, refrigeration and cryogenic engineering innovation technology and equipment, clean energy technology and equipment, industrial emission pollution control technology. Accordingly, four innovative research teams have been set up to improve the level of discipline development and quality of talent training, and to make contribution to building USST into a high-level university. The goal of this discipline is to forge its characteristic research in the field of impeller mechanical flow control and detection technology, refrigeration low temperature innovation technology, equipment, clean energy technology and equipment, industrial emission pollution control technology so as to stay at advantageous and leading place in the world by 2020.

1) In terms of faculty, the discipline, with three years of construction supported by “Shanghai Plateau Discipline Construction Program”, has built a well-structured and energetic research and teaching team in power engineering and engineering thermo-physics. So far, the total number of the faculty is 102 (flexibly introduced talents), including 45 professors, 32 associate professors, and 25 lecturers; two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.

2) In terms of talent training, the discipline has built National Teaching Experiment Demonstration Center of Energy Power Engineering, National Engineering Practice Education Center of Heat Transfer Technology and Cooling Equipment. The three undergraduate majors, “Energy and Power Engineering”, “New Energy Science and Engineering” and “Process Equipment and Control Process” have passed the ASSIIN international certification. The energy and power engineering major has been rated as the national featured specialty and outstanding specialty of Shanghai. The Thermal Engineering Teaching Team was awarded the national excellent teaching team. The Heat Transfer Team was awarded the national-level quality course team, and the national quality course sharing team. Ranking in the forefront for its ability of talent training in China, the discipline has cultivated more than 12,000 graduates, many of whom have become industrial executives and technical backbones.

With the goal of “improving the quality of students, cultivating qualified graduate students, and boosting the construction of disciplines to a higher stage”, the discipline has adopted a series of measures to improve the quality of graduate students and the quality of training. In the past five years, more than 1,500 graduate students have been trained, including more than 100 doctoral students. The average score of enrollment of graduate students exceeds the national score line by more than 50 points. The proportion of first choice is 90.6%, and the highest score of the first-choice student is 411 points. The number of graduate students enrolled, the number of graduates and the overall quality have been steadily increased during the construction period. The annual average number of important academic papers that graduate students published have exceeded 300. The number of SCI papers published by the first author of graduate students has reached 35. During the construction period, one of the doctoral dissertations and 3 master dissertations were awarded as Excellent Dissertation of Shanghai.

3) In terms of scientific research:

• The discipline has so far won one National Science and Technology Award, three first-prizes of provincial and ministerial level awards, five second-prizes of provincial and ministerial awards, and more than 10 third-prizes of provincial and ministerial awards.

• Three research projects supported by Natural Science Foundation, more than 50 other national projects.

• In the past three years, it has published more than 500 SCI high-level papers, including more than 10 ESI papers, with an average annual research funding of more than 40 million yuan;

• According to Elsevier's data evaluation of Scival Spotlight, the discipline has formed three research directions, which are particle and two-phase flow optical measurement technology, environmentally friendly refrigerant and its refrigeration application technology, as well as new energy micro-grid system integration and heat exchanger network optimization technology. In the three research directions, the number of annual high-level papers published ranks first in the world.

  4) In terms of discipline and platform construction, the discipline has established the key laboratories like “Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer of Power Engineering”, “Key Laboratory of Environmental Refrigerant Application Research of Chinese Machinery Industry”, and “Coal Industry Pollutant Control of Chinese Machinery Industry’ Key Laboratory”, “Shanghai Institute of Science and Engineering - Shanghai Electric Technology Innovation Center”. It has successively won 4 national science and technology awards.

• Over the years, the discipline, combining its own advantages and characteristics, has been actively exploring new scientific research directions. In early 2017, it was approved to offer a characteristic discipline in national defense---the discipline of Aeronautical Dynamics. The establishment of this new discipline has broadened the research direction of the first-level disciplines of Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics. It is a new platform for serving the country and its national defense.

• Key discipline of Shanghai ---- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Power Engineering Multi-phase Flow and Heat Transfer is one of the most important work centers and platforms for the construction of this discipline.