1953年10月，华中工学院动力工程系组建，经过60年的发展，成为今天的华中科技大学能源与动力工程学院。

　　学院从20世纪50年代初开始培养本科生，60年代初开始培养研究生，70年代以后逐渐建立了完整的学科体系。1981年，电厂热能动力和内燃机专业在中国建立学位制度时首批获准设立硕士点、博士点;1984年、1990年获准设立工程热物理、制冷及低温工程、流体机械及工程博士点;1988年，电厂热能动力学科成为国家重点学科;同年，获准建设煤燃烧国家重点实验室，并于1991年建成、对外开放;1991年，建立动力工程及工程热物理博士后流动站;1998年获得动力工程及工程热物理一级学科博士学位授予权;2001年，热能工程学科再次被评为国家重点学科;2007年，动力工程及工程热物理被评为首批一级学科国家重点学科。现有热能工程、工程热物理、动力机械及工程、流体机械及工程、制冷及低温工程、化工过程机械、能源环境工程、动力工程自动化、新能源科学与工程等博士培养二级学科。经过“211”工程和“985”工程重点建设，已经形成了以煤燃烧国家重点实验室、国家能源清洁低碳发电研发中心、中美清洁能源联合研究中心、能源动力装置节能减排教育部工程研究中心、国家级工程实践教育中心为支撑的创新性学科平台系统。学院也是中欧清洁与可再生能源学院与武汉新能源研究院重要依托和技术支撑单位。

　　学院现有教职工近140人，专任教师和科研人员110余人，其中教授38人，有“973”项目首席科学家2人次，国家杰出青年基金获得者4人，长江学者特聘和讲座教授3人，教育部新世纪人才8人。外聘客座教授中有6位中国科学院和工程院院士以及3位美国、加拿大、澳大利亚工程院院士。拥有国家自然科学基金创新群体;教育部首批“长江学者和创新发展计划”创新团队;湖北省自然科学基金创新群体。学院首批获得高校学科创新引智计划(“111”计划)项目支持。

　　学院主要围绕化石能源的低碳高效安全利用和污染物深度联合脱除、能源终端利用优化与节能、可再生能源、先进动力装置等方面开展科学研究和人才培养。已形成以动力工程与工程热物理基础研究为龙头，以可持续能源和先进动力技术创新为主线，以国际化创新人才培养模式为基础的完整学科体系。在跨尺度多相反应流的介观理论与方法、富氧燃煤CO2捕捉等方向的研究具有国际领先水平。“十五”以来，获国家自然科学、技术发明和科技进步二等奖各一项，省部级科技一等奖12项，两项专利技术获得日内瓦国际博览会特别奖和金奖。近3年获得科研合同经费6.2亿元，专利转让和应用效益21.62亿元。近5年发表SCI论文463篇，单篇最高他引210次。

　　目前在校博士研究生170余人，硕士研究生超过700人，本科生近1700人。已形成了厚基础、宽口径的高素质人才培养体系，优良的学风和浓厚的学术氛围。《工程传热学》、《能源与动力装置基础》、《内燃机原理》入选国家精品课程;《低温技术原理与装置》入选湖北省精品课程。热能与动力工程专业和新能源科学与工程专业入选国家特色专业建设计划，近年来获省教学成果一等奖3项。60年来，已培养1万4千余名毕业生，多位杰出毕业生成为中国、美国、澳大利亚工程院院士，还有大批优秀毕业生已成为欧美和国内著名大学、企业、政府机构中的杰出人才。

　　学院已与美国、英国、法国、日本、加拿大、澳大利亚、意大利、葡萄牙等20多个国家的著名大学和科研机构建立了长期的合作关系，每年约有60人次出国进修、考察、讲学、合作研究或参加国际学术会议。近年多所国际知名大学校长和百余名境外教授到访，开展学术交流与联合培养学生。学院每年举办2-3次国际学术会议，已形成良好的国际化氛围。

　　学院将在应用领先、基础突破、责任以行的办学理念指导下，努力培养栋梁人才，深入开展科学研究，保持学科的整体水平和综合实力处于国内一流，把重点和特色学科建成为国际知名的高水平学科。

　　Introduction

　　After 60 years of evolution, the Department of Power Engineering, founded in October of 1953， has been developed into the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology。

　　The school started its undergraduate program at the beginning of 1950s, and graduate program in 1960s. Its complete discipline system was gradually established during 1970s. In 1981, when China established her degree system, the school was granted to start Ph.D. program at two disciplines: Thermal Power Engineering and Internal Combustion Engine. In 1984 and 1990, other disciplines such as Engineering Thermo-physics, Refrigeration and Cryogenics Engineering, Thermal Energy Engineering and Hydro-Machinery were also authorized to begin Ph.D. program. The Thermal Power Engineering became a State Key Discipline in 1988. At the same year, the application for the set-up of the State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion was approved. In 1991, the post-doctoral research stations were established in the Power Engineering and Engineering Thermo-physics. In 1998, the school received certification to grant Ph.D. degree for its all disciplines .The Ph.D. programs are Thermal Power Engineering, Engineering Thermo-physics, Power Machinery Engineering, Fluid Machinery and Engineering, Refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering, Chemical Processing Machinery, Energy and Environmental Engineering , Power Engineering Automation., New Energy Engineering. The discipline of Thermal Power Engineering was honored as a state key discipline again in 2001. In 2007, the Power Engineering and Engineering Thermo-physics were honored as a primary subject of State Key Discipline. A series of platforms such as the State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Sino-US Clean Energy Joint Research Center & Advanced Coal Technology Consortium for innovation and creativity have emerged. Also, the school is an important support unit of China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energies and New Energy Institute •Wuhan.

　　The school has 140 staffs including 110 faculty and research fellows, among which there are 38 professors, 2 chief scientists of “973 Project”, 4 winners of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 3 Yangtze River Scholar, 8 New Century Excellent Talents. The guest professors include 6 academicians from the Chinese Academy of Science or Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 3 engineering academicians from U.S.A., Canada and Australia. The school boasts its exceptional team for innovation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, an outstanding team in the “Yangtze river scholars and creative group of ministry of education (MOE). Also, the school won the support of the National “111” Project for China’s Higher Education.

　　The school carries out researches and educational programs on low-carbon and high efficiency and safe usage of fossil energy, advanced treatment of pollutants, energy efficiency, renewable energy and advanced power engineering. The school has established a complete system of various disciplines, with the power engineering and engineering thermal-physics basic research as the leading role, with the sustainable energy and advanced power technology innovation as the main focus, and with the cultivation of innovative talents with a global vision as the foundation. The school now plays a leading role in researches on mesoscopic theory and methods on trans-scale multiphase reaction flows, oxy-coal combustion and CO2 capturing, etc. .

　　In the past ten years, School of Energy and Power Engineering had won the prizes of State Natural Science Award, State Technological Invention Award, State Science and Technology Progress Award, twelve top prizes of the Provincial Science and Technology Award. Two patents won the Special Award and Gold Award of Geneva International Exposition. In the past three years, the school obtained 620 million YUAN research funding and a lot of patent transfer benefit. Over the last five years, faculty in the school had published 463 SCI cited papers, one of which has been cited by others up to 210 times.

　　There are 170 Ph.D. students, 700 master students and 1700 undergraduate students in the school. A system to foster the students with a good learning tradition and academic atmosphere has been built, which aims at equipping students with solid interdisciplinary knowledge and strong ability in theories and application. This provides them wide job opportunities. The program of Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, New Energy Engineering have been listed in the national plan for elite discipline development. The school has won three top prize items of Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, and three National Elite Courses. In the past 60 years, the school has cultivated more than 14,000 graduates, the he most distinguished graduates who are playing important roles in famous universities, enterprises, government agencies at home and abroad, to make contributions to the progress of human being.

　　The school has established long-term collaborations with many famous universities and institutions from over 20 countries, including US, UK, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, Italy and Portugal etc.. More than 60 faculty have been encouraged to go abroad for study, to give lectures, to collaborate in research and to attend international academic conferences every year. In recent years, there are a large number of chancellors of internationally well-known universities and hundreds of overseas professors to visit the school to carry out academic exchanges and to cultivate students jointly. The school has international academic conferences twice or three times each year.

　　The school follows by the guidance of her operation concept “leading in application, breaking through in theory, operating with responsibility”, and it strives to cultivate talents, promote the research level and elevates the distinctive disciplines to the world-class level.