On September 20,1958, the University of Science and Technology of China was founded, the whole school set up 12 departments, our department at that time the name is the Department of physical and thermal engineering, by our well-known veteran scientist, Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher as Director.
On April 3,1960, the Department of physical and thermal engineering was renamed as the Department of Engineering and thermal physics, under which the departments of gas turbine and jet engine, atomic power and engineering and thermal physics were established.
On May 9,1961, in accordance with the policy of “adjustment, consolidation, enrichment and improvement” of the Central Committee, and with the approval of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education, the school merged its original 13 departments with 46 majors into 12 departments with 30 majors, the Department of Engineering Thermophysics was merged with the Department of mechanics and mechanical engineering to form the Department of modern mechanics, and the Department of Engineering Thermophysics was transferred to the Department of Engineering Thermophysics, which trains researchers in the field of jet engine.
Moved Down with the school to Hefei in 1970. On November 25,1981, the State Council approved our university as the first batch of doctoral and master’s degree conferring units, and engineering thermal physics became one of the first 24 disciplines and specialties with the conferring authority of Master’s degree.
On March 23,1983, with the approval of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Engineering Thermophysics was restored at the university. Wu Zhonghua served as the chairman of the department, and Ge Xinshi served as the first deputy director of the Department of Engineering Thermal Physics. On November 23,1984, Ge Xinshi was appointed chairman of the Department of Engineering Thermal Physics. On February 28,1985, Wang Yongtang served as general secretary of the Party branch of the Department of Engineering Thermophysics.
On June 29,1991, with the approval of the Ministry of Personnel and the National Post-doctoral Management Committee, a post-doctoral flow station was set up in the Department of Engineering Thermal Physics for the discipline of power engineering and engineering thermal physics. June 15,1992, the school selected the first batch of 9 school-level key disciplines, I department of Engineering Thermophysics is one of them.
On December 22, the Department of Engineering Thermophysics was renamed the Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering. In addition to continuing to train specialists in the field of aerospace, it also trains researchers in new energy and cryogenic and refrigeration technologies.
In January 2002, our department of Engineering Thermophysics was selected as the key discipline of Anhui Province. In October 2003, with the approval of the academic degree committee of the State Council, our department became the first-class subject of power engineering and thermal physics.
Following Wu Zhonghua and Ge Xinshi, the successive department heads were, in turn, academician Fan Weicheng (1993-1996) , Professor Chen Yiliang (1996-2000) , Professor Cheng Xiaofang (2000-2001) , Professor Ji Jie (2001-2009) , Professor Wang Xiaohong (2009-2014) , and Professor Pei Gang (2014-2019) , the current executive head of the Department is Professor Ching man-lung.
The Department has national first-class discipline points and post-doctoral flow station (power engineering and engineering thermophysics discipline) , in three professional fields with the right to award doctoral degrees, they are engineering thermophysics (1987) , thermal energy engineering (2003) , refrigeration and Cryogenic Engineering (2003) .
The department has a close cooperation relationship with universities in the International, Hong Kong and Macao regions We have cooperated with Guangzhou Energy Research Institute, Engineering Thermal Physics Institute, Shanghai Institute of Technology Physics and Chinese Academy of Sciences in discipline construction and undergraduate and graduate education, resource sharing and advantage complementation are realized.
The department has more than 60 faculty members, Adjunct Professors and doctoral supervisors, among them, there are 24 professors and researchers (including 10 adjunct professors, 2 Chinese Academy of Sciences Academicians, 1 Chinese Academy of Engineering Academician, 1 Jie Qing of the National Fund Committee, 1 leader of the 10,000-person Plan of the Central Organization Department, 2 Chief of the National “973” project, and 2 one billion national-level New Century Talents) 12 associate professors/special associate researchers. At the same time with the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong and other overseas academic institutions to establish a long-term cooperative research and talent exchange relations, external guest international professor 2.