The School of Chemical Engineering and Technology at Tianjin University Photo: Courtesy of Tianjin University

 

A lab at the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology at Tianjin University Photo: Courtesy of Tianjin University

The School of Chemical Engineering and Technology in Tianjin University was officially established in 1997 on the foundation of the Chemistry Department that dated back to the 1920s and got strengthened after merging with related departments from many well-known Chinese universities in 1950s.

It topped the Best Chinese Subjects Rankings released by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy in both 2017 and 2018 and has been assessed by the China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC)as an A-plus level discipline for four times. 

The discipline also enjoys a great international reputation as its Bachelor of Engineering Degree program was the first in China to receive international accreditation from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) at the "Master Level" in 2008 and one of the only two in Asia. The program later passed the IChemE accreditation renewal twice successfully in 2014 and 2018.

School of Chemical Engineering and Technology strives to improve the scientific and technological innovation capabilities of the discipline. 

It leads China's research and development in the field of mass transfer and separation, especially in distillation and crystallization technology, and formed a wide variety of advantageous and unique research directions in other chemical engineering fields including new green chemistry technology and product engineering, new catalyst materials and reaction engineering, energy chemical engineering and environmental chemical engineering, synthetic bioengineering, pharmaceutical engineering, material chemical engineering and processing system engineering.

The high achievement of the school is owed to the excellent teaching faculty including scientist Hou Debang, who created the globally used Hou's process (for soda manufacture); academician Yu Guocong, one of the pioneers of China's distillation research; and academician Wang Jingkang who founded China's first industrial crystallization and pharmaceutical crystallization technology research and development base.

Meanwhile, a lot of splendid and outstanding elites graduated from the school. 

For example, PhD candidate Du Hongru in Johns Hopkins University, who graduated from Tianjin University's school of Chemical Engineering and Technology in 2017 with a bachelor's degree, is working on the COVID-19 Real-time Tracking Map from Johns Hopkins University's online dashboard in the US.

Alumnus Chen Jinwen became a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 15. He leads major R&D programs in bitumen upgrading, petroleum refining, biofuels, and life-cycle GHG emissions assessment.

The employment rate of graduates in the school has stabilized at more than 98 percent annually. 

Student employment involves enterprises in some Chinese key national companies as well as Fortune Global 500 such as China National Petroleum Corporation, Sinopec Group, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Air Liquide and so on.

Fifty percent of all its students who chose to go abroad for further study successfully applied to and got enrolled by the top 100 universities as measured by QS World University Rankings. 

The school actively explores and steadily promotes the enrollment and study of foreign students, and served the country's the Belt and Road Initiative. 

Currently, the college has formed an all-English language teaching team with the background of overseas academic qualifications or overseas study experience, and established a complete English curriculum learning system in undergraduate, graduate and PhD degree.