The environmental engineering major of Nanjing University is an environmental science research institute and department approved by 1978. 1993 was renamed the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, 1999 established the Institute of Environment with an independent Department of Environmental Engineering. At present, undergraduate, master and doctoral students are enrolled, and together with environmental science, they have won the first batch of doctoral degrees in environmental science and engineering in China, have postdoctoral mobile stations, and jointly build the "State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Research" with Tongji University.
The major of environmental engineering has a team of teachers with reasonable age structure who are active in the forefront of the discipline, including 1 national and provincial outstanding contribution experts in the department of environmental engineering, 1 second-class (national academic leaders) and third-class training objects in Jiangsu Province, 7 professors, 6 doctoral supervisors, 7 associate professors and 2 senior engineers.
In 2000, the Department of Environmental Engineering won the second prize of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education, and the second prize of 200 1 National Science and Technology Progress Award. It also occupies one of the eight environmental protection technology promotion projects selected by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and has obtained and applied for nearly 100 national patents.
The Department of Environmental Engineering now presides over the "863" major scientific and technological projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation, the key scientific and technological projects of the Ministry of Education, local scientific research projects of various departments and a large number of pollution prevention and control projects. Scientific and technological activities include water pollution prevention, solid waste treatment and disposal, air pollution prevention, cleaner production technology development, environmental materials and environmental restoration.