Materials Forming and Control Engineering

I. Program History & Orientation

Established in 1999 and enrolling undergraduates from 2000, this program of Yangtze University takes advantage of petroleum-equipment featured education to meet national needs for high-end equipment manufacturing and new-material industries. It has been accredited as a National First-class Undergraduate Program (2021), Hubei Provincial First-class Undergraduate Program (2020), Hubei comprehensive reform pilot program (2014) and university-level key program (2011).

Supported by doctoral, master’s and professional master’s disciplines, it delivers a complete undergraduate-master-doctor talent training system. Rooted in the Jianghan Plain, it serves oil-gas energy, automobile and aerospace sectors, focusing on additive manufacturing and precision forming for petroleum equipment.

II. Faculty

The program has 16 full-time teachers (5 professors, 8 associate professors, 3 lecturers), 6 external enterprise supervisors and 5 full-time experimental technicians, including one Hubei major-talent recipient and one provincial youth innovation team.

The team won Hubei First-class Teaching Achievement Award in 2005 and 2022. Faculty undertake provincial-ministerial and enterprise research projects with dozens of invention patents. Adopting the dual-supervisor mode, academic and enterprise tutors jointly guide students in research and competitions.

III. Talent Cultivation

Committed to fostering virtue through education, the program cultivates well-rounded high-quality application-oriented engineering talents. Graduates master fundamentals of mechanical engineering, materials science and automatic control, and are proficient in additive manufacturing, material forming processes and digital mold design. They are competent to solve complex engineering problems for equipment process design, intelligent manufacturing, quality and production management.

Core Courses:Engineering Materials, Principles of Materials Forming, Materials Forming Technology, Die & Mold Design, Additive Manufacturing Technology, Fundamentals of Mechanical Manufacturing, Mechanical Design, Engineering Control Fundamentals, Finite-Element Simulation Analysis, Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment.

Practical Teaching:Engineering training, specialized course design, comprehensive professional practice, CAD/CAE practice, enterprise production internship and graduation design.

Practice Platforms:It owns 11 provincial-ministerial-level teaching and research platforms, and over 10 stable off-campus internship bases in cooperation with well-known enterprises. Students get early access to laboratories and real-world research projects via research-teaching integration and industry-education collaboration.

IV. Distinguished Alumni

Over two decades, the program has cultivated numerous outstanding talents for energy equipment, automobile, aerospace and other industries. Many alumni work as technical directors, senior engineers and R&D managers in leading enterprises, research institutes and government agencies. Some engage in high-level academic research at universities, while others start businesses in intelligent manufacturing.

V. Employment & Further Education

Graduates are employed in petroleum-energy equipment, automobile, aerospace and intelligent manufacturing industries for R&D, process development, mold design, quality control and management roles in large SOEs and listed companies.

Boasting the highest postgraduate recommendation rate in the college, the program sends many students to Double First-Class universities for master’s studies, maintaining a sound postgraduate admission rate. Graduates are highly recognized by employers.

VI. Program Highlights

Strong disciplinary strength: National First-class Undergraduate Program with distinctive petroleum-equipment manufacturing features backed by doctoral disciplines.

Dual-supervisor education: On-campus teachers together with enterprise engineers participate in teaching, internship and graduation design guidance.

Innovation-driven practice: Provincial-ministerial platforms support student innovation training and discipline competitions.

Smooth further-study channels: Favorable postgraduate-recommendation policies and undergraduate-postgraduate continuous training support students for advanced education.