The material science and engineering discipline was developed from the disciplines of silk fiber and textile materials. It was approved to award master’s degree of materials science in 2001 and materials processing engineering in 2003 at the secondary discipline. In 2006 and 2018, it was approved to award master’s and doctor's degrees respectively at the primary discipline. The materials science discipline has approved to be the key discipline in Zhejiang Province in 2005, and the material science and engineering has approved to be the top A class discipline in Zhejiang Province in 2016. From 2012, the material science and engineering has been the world's top 1% by ESI (Essential Science Indicators). After many years developing, the researches in material science and engineering discipline have covered many fields, including fiber materials, new functional materials, composite materials, nano-catalytic materials, biological and biomimetic materials.

The material science and engineering discipline is with abundant qualified faculties of over 70 teaching and administrative staffs, among whom there are 11 teachers with the professional rank of PhD candidate supervisor and 39 teachers with the professional rank of master degree candidate supervisor. Some professors were supported by the national and provincial talents program, including Ten-thousand Talents Program, New Century Thousands of Talents Program, MOE New Century Top Talent Support Program and Qianjiang Distinguished Professors, etc.

Within this discipline, there are some key laboratories, e.g. National Engineering Laboratory for Textile Fiber Materials and Processing Technology, Advanced Textile & Manufacturing Technology of Ministry of Education, and Fiber Materials and processing Technology of Zhejiang Province, with advanced apparatus and equipment covering all aspects of materials science and engineering. The researches in the this discipline are developed steadily and remarkable achievements have been obtained in recent years. Some important research projects including the national scientific and technological support projects, the projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China, the innovation team project of the Ministry of Education, major scientific and technological projects of Zhejiang Province and other types of research projects have been carried out by our staffs. We have obtained many research awards including 2 National Science and Technology Progress Award, 2 National Technological Invention Award, besides more than 700 peer-reviewed papers and 270 patents in the past 5 years.

I. Objectives

(1) Develop the friendship with People's Republic of China through learning and understanding the laws, system, society and culture, etc.

(2) Promote the capability of scientific research and professional work in materials science and engineering.

(3) Master Chinese language, own the ability of using Chinese to read technical literature and professional exchange.

II. Research Areas

1.Materials Physics and Chemistry

2.Materials Science

3.Materials Processing Engineering

III. Length of Study

The normal study length for full-time research postgraduates is 3 years. Students who finish their courses ahead of schedule and attain the standards of degree conferment can, after approval, apply for the degree at an earlier time (not earlier than 2.5 years), while the maximum length of schooling is 5 years.

IV. Credit Requirements

The course-learning phase of the master’s degree program adopts credit system. Students majored in materials science and engineering are required to take at least 33 credits, with at least 20 credits of degree course.

V. Curriculum

C=Compulsory, O=Optional

* Students can decide whether to take this optional course or not according to their different research area.

VI. Dissertation Requirement

Dissertation for academic master degree is an important part of the program of the master degree students. The purposes of the dissertation include training the postgraduate students to undertake scientific research and professional technical activities, promotion of student’s ability of scientific innovation, and problem shooting, analysis and solution. The postgraduate students will be encouraged to undertake the scientific research projects organized by the supervisors. The dissertation is assumed to have important academic or practical application values with novel scientific ideas. Following are important points which should be observed to guarantee the quality of the dissertation:

(1) The dissertation should put forwards novel scientific ideas on essential theory, calculation methods, testing technology and manufacturing processes, or solve some practice problem in technology or engineering with existed theory or new scientific and technical achievements. And the dissertation should have important academic or practical application values.

(2) The postgraduate students need to select a research direction when entering the school with the help of supervisors, and determine the research project for dissertation after searching the literatures and performing investigation, etc. and then complete the dissertation opening report during the third semester(generally during week 9 to 10).

(3) The postgraduate students should complete the dissertation independently under the instruction of supervisors.

(4) The postgraduate students should meet the needs of paper publishing before the oral defense of the dissertation according to the Requirement of Publishing Papers for Master Degree Students of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.

(5) The dissertation should be edited and printed by the computers with the format referring to the Criterion of the Dissertation for Academic Master Degree of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University.

VII. Teaching Format

Supervisors or a supervising group of teachers will tutor the postgraduate students for academic master degree.

VIII. Graduation & Degree Conferment

Students who attain the standards of graduation, having completed the required courses, passed the examinations within the study duration and successfully defended their thesis will be awarded the graduation certificate; those who attain the standards of academic degree conferment and are approved by the university academic degree evaluation committee, will be awarded the master degree.