The School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and the School of Emergency Management & Safety Engineering (co-located) at Yancheng Institute of Technology were formerly majors of Inorganic Chemical Engineering of Yancheng Industrial College, which was founded in 1959. It was suspended in 1962 due to national economic difficulties and resumed in 1978. In 1997, major of Chemical Engineering & Technology admitted its first undergraduate students, and in 2000 major of Applied Chemistry admitted its first undergraduate students. In 2004, Chemical Engineering and Ocean Engineering Departments merged to form the School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering, and in 2006 the major of Pharmaceutical Engineering admitted its first undergraduate students. In 2015, the School of Chemistry & Biological Engineering was split into the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and College of Marine and Bioengineering. In 2020, the School of Emergency Management & Safety Engineering was established. The School currently offers six majors, inculding chemical engineering and technology, pharmaceutical engineering, applied chemistry, chemical safety engineering, emergency technology and management, and energy chemistry. Discipline of chemistry ranks among the top 1% in the world in ESI rankings, while discipline of chemical engineering & technology is a first-level authorization point of master’s degree program and a key discipline ranked Class B in Jiangsu Province. Major of Chemical Engineering & Technology is a construction point of the national first-class majors, passed China Engineering Education Accreditation in 2018, and is a provincial-level brand major integrating industry and education. The major of pharmaceutical engineering is also a construction point of national first-class majors that passed China Engineering Education Accreditation in 2021. The School has one provincial-level key emergency management college construction site, two provincial-level engineering research centers, and two national first-class undergraduate courses.
The School currently has 113 faculty members, including 15 professors, 28 associate professors, 5 senior laboratory technicians, with 42.48% of the total number of faculty members above the title of associate professor; 86 PhDs, 23 masters (including 2 doctoral students), with 96.46% of the total number of faculty members above the master’s degree. Additionally, there are 11 adjunct professors and 2 associate professors on-campus, and 11 visiting professors off-campus. The School faculty includes 2 members of Jiangsu Province’s “333” High-level Talent Training Project, 3 members of “Six Talent Peaks”, 2 young academic leaders of the “Blue Project”, 3 young backbone teachers of the “Blue Project”, 4 supervisors of doctor , and 34 supervisors of master. The proportions of senior titles and highly educated teachers are come out in front both in whole school and in similar universities, forming a teaching staff with young and middle-aged teachers as the main body, with a reasonable structure, prospects for development as well as vitality. The School currently has 1,929 full-time undergraduate students and 164 full-time master's students. The employment rate of graduates from the past five years is over 95%, and the postgraduate entrance examination acceptance rate is over 30%. In competitions in chemical engineering design, pharmaceutical engineering design, life sciences and other subjects, students have won 6 national second prizes and 25 national third prizes, and over 100 prizes at the provincial level, as well as 9 national and 19 provincial prizes in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programs for college students. The School has achieved fruitful research results. In the past five years, The School has undertaken more than 20 national-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, more than 30 provincial-level projects, and over 100 horizontal projects for enterprise service. The research funding received has reached more than 30 million yuan, more than 300 high-level papers have been published, and over 150 invention patents have been authorized, of which more than 50 patent results have been transformed.
After more than 60 years of development, the School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering has been equipped with abundant qualified teaching faculty, complete teaching conditions. The School has distinctive characteristics in similar professional fields, while graduates have a good social reputation. At present, the entire school is taking the lead in building advantageous disciplines, striving to improve the quality of both education and teaching, and improving the level of running a school, in order to keep all work have distinctive characteristics and on a high degree. The School strives for achieving new leap-forward development and making each discipline and major become nationally influential and provincial first-class ones.
