材料科学与工程学院服务于国家新材料战略需求，致力于新材料领域的创新性高水平应用型人才培养，现有高分子材料与工程、材料科学与工程两个本科招生专业，并与浙江大学、浙江理工大学等多个高校开展硕士研究生联合培养。
学院拥有一支由中科院院士杨德仁教授领衔的，以中青年骨干教师为核心的教、科研队伍，其中高级职称比例超50%，博士比例95%，成员拥有丰富的海外经历和工程经历，61%的专任教师入选包括国务院特殊津贴专家、省级海外重点引才计划 、省双创团队负责人等各级各类高层次人才工程。
学院积极推动教育、科技、人才一体化发展，“材料科学与工程”入选浙江省一流学科，“高分子材料与工程”入选浙江省一流专业。拥有“能源电子材料研发”、“先进阻燃高分子材料研发”、“纳米纤维素关键技术研究”等3个市级创新团队，建有“先进光伏材料制备技术与应用”浙江省工程研究中心和“钙钛矿光伏技术”“高性能薄膜和光学材料”等2个校企联合实验室。
精准对接浙江及宁波地区的新材料和先进制造产业重大需求，聚焦能源电子、火安全与热防护、生物质高分子等材料技术的前沿创新研究。近五年，学院共承担了包括国家自然科学基金重大和面上项目、浙江省自然科学基金重点项目、浙江省尖兵领雁攻关项目、宁波市重大科技专项等纵向及100万元以上重大横向项目24项，累计到款外源性经费7000余万元；发表高水平论文百余篇，10篇论文入选ESI高被引论文；获得浙江省自然科学二、三等奖各1项，中国发明协会发明创业奖创新奖一等奖1项，宁波市科技进步二、三等奖5项；授权发明专利64项，9项成果实现落地转化，经济社会效益显著。学院联合行业协会和龙头企业建立了“化工新材料现代产业学院”，将优质科研成果、前沿产业信息及时转化为教学资源，实行“导师制”人才培养模式,逐步建成高水平人才培养、高标准学科布局、高质量科技供给的标杆学院。
The School of Materials Science and Engineering, NingboTech University was established in August 2021 as part of the university’s endeavor to meet the country’s need to develop emerging industries of strategic importance and to explore innovative breakthroughs at the frontiers of new materials. The school boasts three research institutes, namely, the Institute of Fire Safety Materials, the Institute of Energy and Electronic Materials, and the Institute of Polymer Materials and Engineering. It offers two undergraduate majors: Polymer Materials and Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.
As of the end of 2022, the school had 33 full-time faculty members, among whom 13 were professors and eight associate professors. 94% obtained their doctorate and more than half had overseas education experience. Among the faculty, there is one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, three experts receiving the special allowance of the State Council, four selected for key talent projects at the provincial level, and 65% selected for the talent projects at or above the municipal level. The school also boasts three innovation teams at the municipal level.
Focusing on the national strategy of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”, the school is actively engaged in basic research and applied technology development in such distinctive fields as energy and electronic materials, fire safety materials, and polymer-based functional materials. It has undertaken and completed major projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation, among others, with research results winning numerous awards including the second prize of Zhejiang Natural Science Award and ten papers selected as ESI highly cited papers. With regard to the industry-education-research integration, the school has established one industrial college in collaboration with enterprises (industrial associations) and two joint labs, led nearly 80 research projects commissioned by enterprises or government agencies, including four projects each with a fund of more than 1 million yuan, authorized 50 invention patents, and successfully commercialized seven research results, generating significant economic and social benefits.
Applying the development philosophy of “cultivating virtue, pursuing innovation, pressing ahead, and seeking excellence", the school is striving to build a materials discipline that is first-class in the province and influential nationwide.
