清华大学材料科学与工程系是清华大学建设世界一流大学的重要组成部分。材料科学与工程系（以下简称材料系）现有在编教职工95人，拥有一支学术造诣高，极富创造力而又为人师表的强大研究生导师队伍，有一批优秀的留学归国博士。全系共有研究员40人（其中中国科学院院士2人，中国工程院院士2人）副教授（副研）22人，高工13人，目前在校硕士研究生185名，博士研究生207名，工程硕士研究生95名，博士后近40名。有着雄厚的科研力量。

     材料系新建系馆设在清华大学技术科学楼（逸夫技术科学楼），占有7000平方米的教学与科研基地。材料系目前建有材料科学与工程研究院中心实验室及多个国家级重点实验室，如粉体工程研究室、材料科学与工程研究院中心实验室、国家经贸委高技术陶瓷产、学、研基地等；拥有先进的现
代材料制备及分析测试仪器设备，为进行材料的合成与加工、微观结构分析及性能特征研究创造了良好的条件。

     材料系近年来承担了多项国家八五、九五科技攻关任务，973、863高科技新材料研究项目、国家自然科学基金项目、及各部委、省市科技开发项目近200项。在材料科学研究领域曾取得过多项具有国际先进水平的科技成果，获得包括国家自然科学奖,国家发明奖、国家科技进步奖、省部级科技
成果奖近100多项，获得国家专利70余项；1995年-2002年间被SCI收录的学术论文达1230余篇。材料系与美国、法国、日本、韩国等近十多个国家和地区建立了联系，开展学术交流、科技合作、互派人员等多方面国际合作与交流。本系有多位知名学者在国际材料、国际玻姆物理学会、联合国工业发展组织等有影响的学术团体兼职。

    清华大学材料系粉体工程研究室在各级领导的关怀和社会各界人士帮助下，通过在粉体、材料和资源领域多年创业，完成了从研究到产业开发，又在产业开发基础上加深研究的转化和提高。而今，我们以“自强不息，厚德载物”的校训为座右铭，强化功能性复合粉体制备、资源加工以及环保与健康方面的研究与开发；通过中国建材协会粉体技术分会和中国粉体工业信息网建立国内外科技与商务信息网络；与企业形成产学研优化组合。

木粉表面包覆改性与纳米塑木复合技术

    ------ 清华大学材料系专利技术成果 (国家发明专利申请号:200510126181.3)

Deportment of Material Science and Engineering (MSE), one of young departments at Tsinghua University, was created in 1988 by merging materials-related parts from Departments of hemical Engineering, Engin-eering Physics, and Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua. Since then, the MSE at Tsinghua has grown, and become a top MSE department in the materials field around China based on its academic program, its high-ly regarded faculty, and the high caliber of its students. The MSE department involves the classic materials fields of metals, ceramics and composites science in combination with fundamental disciplines like solid st- ate physics and chemistry. Since no individual has the necessary breadth of knowledge in all of these fields, the MSE department has adopted a multidisciplinary approach to research and education. The MSE Depart- ment of Tsinghua offers on interdisciplinary graduate program in Materials Science and Engineering. There are currently 95 people in the MSE department, including two Academicians of Chinese Academy of Science, two Academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 20 full and associate professors. The number of post-doctors and visiting scholars mainly from other institutions around China is over 40. There are 366 undergrad-uates, 185 master graduates, and 207 Ph.D. Graduates.

Faculty and student research ranges from the purely scientific to applied studies and involves perspectives of chemistry, physics, electronics, and biology. The current research areas of the faculty in the MSE depart-ment includes: (1) materials in information technology; (2) materials in health and biotechnology; (3) mater-ials in energy and environment; (4) materials in transportation and security; (5) nanomaterials; (6) computa- tional materials science. The MSE department has close collaborations with other epartments on campus.In fact, in order to enhance such collaborations, on interdisciplinary research school, School of Materials Science and Engineering, was created in 1997 based on the MSE department. This research School brings together the faculty in MSE department with a number of materials-related faculty in the Departments of Ch-emical Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry.

Annual research budget in the MSE department is around 40 millions in Chinese dollars, mostly from Chine-se funding agencies such as the State Science and Technology Ministry, National Natural Science Foundation of China, the State Education Ministry, as well as industries. Annually, members of the Department publish many archival papers and patents. Up to now the department has owned over 70 patents. Since 1994, the total number of the publications by the faculty in the MSE department has ranked No.1 among Tsinghua University from the SCI index database (ISI Web of Science), and reached up to nearly 390 in 2002. In recent years, both faculty and students have received important national and international awards and recognitions.

Powder Technology R.&D.Dept.

In the care of leaders at all levels and with the help from all circles of the people, and by carving out several years in domains of the powder , Powder Technology R.&D.Dept.of Material Science and Engineering Tsing Hua University has completed the conversion and the exaltation from research to industrial development, and also deepened research on the basis of industrial development material and resource. Now, we take the sch- ool motto of“strengthen self without stopping, and hold world with virtue”as motto, and strengthen prepara- tion of the functionality composite powder, resource processing as well as the research and development about environmental protection and health; set up a network about science and technology and business information by Powder Technology Branch of China Building Material Association and www.chinapowder.cn; cooperate optimally with corporations in production, study and research.