Postgraduate Education

As of December 2023, the Institute has a total of 462 graduate students, including 180 doctoral students and 282 master students. In addition, there are a total of 175 graduate students jointly trained by the Institute and various universities, and graduate students have become an important scientific research force of the Institute. The Institute continues to promote the internationalization of education and training, and there are a total of 7 international students studying for doctoral and master's degrees.

The Institute took the lead in organizing the qualification evaluation of the first-level discipline of Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The evaluation expert group fully affirmed the work of the degree authorization affiliation for the first-level discipline of Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, and the qualification evaluation work was successfully completed. The application for the establishment of an engineering doctoral program in "Energy and Power" by the Institute has been approved, and the enrollment is expected to begin from 2025.

The enrollment quality was further improved in 2023. The Institute was fully implementing a new  master's enrollment measure of "two-way selection" to choose mentors. The summer camp activities and the "Open Day for College Students" event at Qingdao and Ji’nan experimental bases were  successfully held. Enrollment promotions in about 10 universities were carried out. The institute  made full use of WeChat official account, website and other effective enrollment promotion ways. The enrollment ratio of recommended students has been further increased, with 71 recommended master students and 19 bachelor-straight-to-doctorate students admitted in 2024. The proportion of recommended students to the total number of admissions has reached a new high in recent years.

New progress has been made in the cooperation between the Institutes and universities. The Institute led and promoted the College of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences to become a member of the "Joint Conference of Dean from Aeronautics and Astronautics Colleges of Chinese Universities". The Institute and Shenyang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have established the "WU Chung-Hua Class" and started recruiting students. The Institute has successfully held the first "WU Chung-Hua Class Seminar" and invited the University of Science and Technology of China, North China Electric Power University, Dalian University of Technology, Jiangsu University, Shenyang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Dongguan Institute of Technology to the seminar. They have summarized the construction achievements of the WU Chung-Hua Class and reached a consensus on future cooperation.

All the graduate students passed the spot checks of degree theses from the nation, Beijing, and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2023, there were a total of 66 graduates from the Institute, of which 37 obtained doctoral degrees (including 2 international students) and 29 obtained master's degrees. The employment rate of graduates was 100%.

In 2023, the Institute elaborately organized major events such as Teacher's Day, opening ceremony, and graduation ceremony, and organized nearly 100 activities in diverse forms with graduate party branches, graduate associations, and caring volunteers. In 2023, we have deepened the ideological education with ideological and political guidance and the inheritance of the spirit of scientists as the core. We have been approved for the "Passing on the torch" ideological and political project of the University of Chinese Academy ofSciences, and ranked among the top in the evaluation of ideological and political work for graduate students at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. We have given an exchange report at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Ideological and Political Conference, and promoted the achievements, concepts, and methods of ideological and political work in the Institute to the university-level platform.

WANG Mingyang won the excellent doctoral thesis of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; DING Hongliang won the Dean's Special Award; and the mentors, LU Xingen and LYU Qinggang, won the excellent tutor award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. TIAN Zhenyu was awarded the LI Pei Outstanding Teacher Award. The course "Advanced Diagnostic Techniques and Applications in Chemical Reactions" taught by TIAN Zhenyu, "Heat Transfer in Aircraft Engines" taught by LI Guoqing, and "Advanced Heat Transfer" taught by HUAI Xiulan were awarded excellent courses of the college. LIU Zhangli won the Dean's Excellent Award and Baosteel Excellent Student Award; CHENG Hongzhi won the ZHU LI Yuehua Excellent Doctoral Student Award; LIU Yang won the Environmental Protection Award of China Science and Technology Group; XIE Lei and ZHAO Kai won the WU Chung-Hua Excellent Student Award; LI Ziliang and five other students were awarded national scholarships; WANG Xinbao and 17 other graduate students were awarded the "Four Dimensional Power" scholarship.

The post-doctoral mobile station work steadily advanced and the post-doctoral quality was continuously improved. In 2023, there were a total of 28 postdoctoral fellows in the station and there were a total of six approved projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund, the special research assistant project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National funded postdoctoral researcher program and the postdoctoral fund general project.