In 2010, the School of Materials Science and Engineering (SMSE) insisted that the scientific researches shall rely mainly on applied researches and attach equal importance to applied researches and fundamental researches. According to the connotative requirements of discipline direction, the SMSE promoted the implementation of establishing R&D Center (laboratories) with several large enterprises, set up numerous platforms for industry-university-research cooperation, made breakthroughs on the project planned by Ministry of Science and Technology and published a number of high-level academic papers in the field of the discipline that were in line with the discipline direction.

Up to December 2010, the SMSE received the scientific research funds of 4.552 million Yuan; applied for 24 national research projects, 37 provincial research projects and 19 patents; reached cooperation agreements with 12 famous enterprises; established associated Research and Development (R&D) institutions with two enterprises; and received the approval of 4 national research projects and the funds of 1.19 million Yuan. Moreover, we obtained one special fund for the early stage of 973 Research, two general programs of Natural Science Foundation, one initial funding for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, six on-going projects for National Natural Science Foundation of China and nine provincial research projects. Numbers of the projects obtained by SMSE were nearly tripled since 2009 and the total amount of funds for scientific researches in SMSE reached to 2.19 million Yuan. What’s more, SMSE had two basic key projects from Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (three projects from the university), two special funds for the research of nano-materials in Shanghai City (three projects from the university), one key project in social development from Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology, one item of Orientalist Distinguished Professor Plan, one item of Shanghai “Phosphor” Science Project, one innovation project from Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and one key scientific and technological project in Shanghai City. In terms of industry-university-research cooperation, SMSE had 12 newly-added scientific and technological development projects from large enterprises; the contract amount in SMSE exceeded 3 million Yuan; and the research paid to SMSE reached 1.18 million Yuan, with one hundred percent of year-on-year growth. SMSE has published 55 academic papers, including 38 SCI source papers; and invited leading experts at home and abroad to carry out more than 10 academic exchanges. Teachers in SMSE has attended more than 20 domestic and foreign academic conferences and has been invited by “211” and higher-level universities for more than ten times to serve as members of Doctoral Dissertation Defense Committees. Teacher in SMSE has won the Contribution Award for Scientific Research Project of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in 2010 and was newly elected as the Vice President of Shanghai Powder Metallurgy Society. Digitization Molding Laboratory (Phase I) and Shanghai Engineering and Technological Research Center for Powder Metallurgy Auto-materials have been established in SMSE. Furthermore, SMSE had won the right to host CARBON-2011, as well as the right to host the International Conference on Renewable Energy Source in 2011.