School of Energy Science and Engineering is one of the major engineering schools with strong and comprehensive discipline system in Central South University. It was established on the basis of metallurgical thermal energy, thermal instrumentation and control of former Central South University of Technology, and vehicle refrigeration and refrigerated transportation, HVAC and other disciplines of former Changsha Railway College. The School of Energy and Power engineering was established in 2002 and renamed as the School of Energy Science and Engineering in 2005. The current Secretary of the Party Committee is Professor Shengming Liao, and the Dean is Professor Zhiqiang Sun.

At present, the school includes more than 90 faculty members, more than 1000 undergraduate students and more than 350 master and doctoral students. There are 3 offices including general office, business office, and academic office, 5 departments including Department of Engineering Thermophysics and Automation, Department of Thermal Energy Engineering, Department of Power Machinery and Engineering, Department of Refrigeration and Artificial Environment, and Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, and 1 experimental center. There are 3 undergraduate majors including energy and power engineering, building environment and energy application engineering, and new energy science and engineering. The school has a first-level discipline of Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics (a key discipline in Hunan Province including 6 second-level disciplines of engineering thermophysics, thermal engineering, power machinery and engineering, refrigeration and cryogenic engineering, new energy science and engineering, and energy system engineering).

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