Resource and Environment & Safety Engineering
Resource and Environment
Safety Engineering
Overall Profile of the Degree Program
The professional master's degree program in Resource and Environment was approved in 2021. It comprises two fields: Environmental Engineering (085701) and Safety Engineering (085702), and began enrolling students in 2023. The Safety Engineering field focuses its disciplinary development closely on theoretical innovation, scientific and technological research and development, and scientific and technological services for work safety and emergency management in the extra-large capital city. The discipline has established long-term cooperative relationships with Beijing Emergency Management Bureau, emergency management bureaus of relevant districts in Beijing, Beijing Academy of Emergency Management Science and Technology, and research centers under the Ministry of Emergency Management. It has jointly built the national "Petrochemical Safety Training Base" with Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical Company, and jointly established the "Beijing Key Unit for Innovative Talent Training in Work Safety" and the "Beijing Key Unit for Work Safety Emergency Rescue Training" with the Beijing Emergency Management Bureau. It has also jointly built "Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Aases for Safety and Emergency" with the Emergency Management Bureau of Daxing District and the Urban Operation Bureau of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. The discipline has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Safety Engineering at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. It holds qualifications for work safety standardization assessment in Beijing's industrial manufacturing sector, work safety standardization assessment for hazardous chemical enterprises in Beijing, consulting services for safe community development in Beijing, CNAS accreditation for testing the physical hazards of chemicals, and CMA metrological certification for inspection and testing, which provides strong support for talent cultivation in the discipline of Safety Engineering.
Faculty Team
The degree program has formed a well-structured, academically strong, and highly cohesive faculty team. There are currently 22 full-time faculty members, including 19 master's supervisors. The proportion of faculty with doctoral degrees is 90.9%, and the proportion with senior professional titles is 81.8%. More than 80% are double-qualified faculty members with both academic and professional credentials. The team includes 13 National Registered Safety Engineers, 6 experts in emergency management for Beijing, and 2 individuals recognized as Beijing Advanced Workers in Work Safety. The undergraduate Safety Engineering teaching team has been awarded the Excellent Teaching Team in Petroleum and Chemical Education in China, and the lead instructor and teaching team of the course "Theory of Combustion and Explosion Safety" have been honored as Beijing Teaching Masters and Excellent Teaching Team for Ideological and Political Education in Courses.
Over the past five years, the faculty team of this degree program has been vibrant and enterprising, achieving remarkable results in high-quality development. The Safety Engineering teaching team has been recognized as the National Excellent Teaching Team in Petroleum and Chemical Education. The School of Safety Engineering has been recognized as a "Model Party-Building Unit" among Beijing universities. The faculty Party branch has been selected as a national model Party branch for Party building. And the graduate student Party branch has received second prize in the Red "1+1" Demonstration Activities among Beijing universities. The practice of deeply integrating Party building with core academic and research work has been included in Beijing's exemplary cases of Party building-business integration. All faculty members are actively engaged in research, and the average research funding per capita is no lower than that of comparable disciplines in Double First-Class universities. The Modern Industry College in the field of Safety Engineering has been awarded the Best Case by the Collaborative Innovation Platform for Chinese Modern Industry Colleges.
Under the guidance of Party building and through close collaboration among government, industry, universities, and research institutes, the program provides strong support for postgraduate training, continuously supplying high-level, application-oriented research talent for the safety and emergency sector in the capital.
Research Areas and Distinctive Features
The degree program actively explores generic methods applicable to chemical safety, dust and gas safety, pipeline operation assurance, and urban safety risk and emergency technologies. Relying on platforms such as Beijing Key Laboratories and engineering research centers of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, it has achieved a series of high-level outcomes in areas including prevention of hazardous chemical accidents, safety assurance for oil and gas pipelines, flame-retardant and explosion-prevention theory, and risk early warning for urban utility tunnels.
(1) Chemical Safety Technology
This research direction is closely aligned with the characteristics of work safety and emergency management in Beijing. It focuses on the hazardous properties of chemicals and safety control technologies that are central to risk prevention and control in the production and use of hazardous chemicals. Research topics include chemical process safety technology and management, testing and identification of the physical hazards of chemicals, thermal safety analysis and evaluation of chemical reactions, and safety management of hazardous chemicals in laboratories. A distinctive research profile has been formed in the theory and technology for preventing and controlling chemical process accidents.
(2) Dust and Gas Safety Technology
Targeting gas and dust safety risks in the operation of extra-large cities and in industrial production, this direction focuses on accident evolution mechanisms and key technologies for accident prevention and control. Research is conducted on gas and dust combustion and explosion theory, dynamic mechanisms of fluid transportation, identification of hazardous properties of flammable and explosive substances, and technologies for major hazard identification, analysis, and assessment. A distinctive research strength has been established in the disaster-causing mechanisms of gas and dust explosion accidents and in technologies for their prevention and suppression.
(3) Urban Risk and Emergency Management
In response to the characteristics of extra-large cities, such as high population density, high pressure on urban operation, elevated social safety risks, and complex correlations, cascading effects, and compounding of disasters, this direction focuses on key regulated sectors such as large urban complexes, new energy storage facilities, logistics parks, transportation networks, and emerging industries. Research topics include theories of safety-resilient urban risk assessment, technologies and mechanisms for dual-prevention systems (risk classification control and hidden danger investigation and treatment), and safety emergency equipment and technologies. This has formed a distinctive research focus on safety and emergency issues in extra-large cities.
Objectives of the professional master's degree program: The program is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and takes the all-round development in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education as its main thread. It aims to cultivate application-oriented, interdisciplinary, high-level talents in engineering technology and engineering management who have a firm political stance, noble moral character, a rigorous academic attitude and an innovative spirit. Students are expected to master solid fundamental theories and broad professional knowledge in the field of Safety Engineering, to understand the development trends and research frontiers of this discipline and to maintain a broad academic vision. They should be well acquainted with new theories, new methods, new technologies and new equipment in this field, receive training to independently carry out scientific research and specialized technical work, and master advanced methods and modern technical means for solving practical engineering problems. They should be familiar with modern experimental techniques in Safety Engineering, able to integrate and interact with other disciplines in research within the field of Safety Engineering, and possess an awareness of scientific research innovation so that they can achieve innovative outcomes in science or engineering technology. They should have a good command of at least one foreign language, with abilities in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, be able to read foreign-language literature in this discipline proficiently, and use a foreign language for basic international communication.
Quality of Talent Training
In talent training, the program adheres to the fundamental task of fosteringing virtue and nurturing a new generation of capable young people, and has built a distinctive talent training system characterized by the integration of science and education and the integration of industry and education. It has jointly established the "Beijing Key Unit for Innovative Talent Training in Work Safety" with the Beijing Emergency Management Bureau; built "Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Aases for Safety and Emergency" with the Emergency Management Bureau of Daxing District and the Urban Operation Bureau of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area; co-established a "National Engineering Practice Education Center" with Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical Company; and maintained long-term, in-depth cooperation with the China Academy of Safety Science and Technology. The project "Research and Practice on the Training Model for Chemical Safety Engineers in the Capital's Core Area Based on Deep Integration between Government and University" has won the second prize in Teaching Achievement Awards for Petroleum and Chemical Education in China. The project "Exploration and Practice of an Integrated Undergraduate-Postgraduate Training Model Centered on Innovation and Entrepreneurship" has received the second prize in Beijing Teaching Achievement Awards. The project "A Collaborative Training Platform for Safety Engineers Serving the Safe Operation and Emergency Management of the Capital City" has been recognized as a deeply integrated industry-academia-research collaborative talent training platform among universities in Beijing. The "Modern Industry College in the Field of Safety Engineering" has been selected as a "Best Case" among modern industry colleges nationwide. Over the past five years, the program has received two Beijing Teaching Achievement Awards, and graduate students' innovative achievements have earned 26 awards at the provincial or ministerial level and above. Graduate students from five cohorts have been recognized as Outstanding Master's Graduates in the field of emergency management in Beijing. The program remains committed to attracting employers' attention through high-quality talent cultivation, a strong reputation within the industry and the ripple effects created by its graduates. The graduate employment rate has stayed at 100% for many years, with graduates mainly working in government agencies, public institutions, research institutes and large enterprises in the area of safety technology and management, and 15% of graduates have gone on to doctoral studies at key universities such as the University of Science and Technology of China and Beijing Institute of Technology.
Projects and Awards
This degree program is closely aligned with national and Beijing municipal economic and social development needs and actively serves the capital's safety and emergency management, achieving outstanding results. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 20 national and provincial or ministerial scientific research projects, including National Key R&D Program projects, National Natural Science Foundation projects, major technology implementation projects of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and Beijing Natural Science Foundation projects. More than 200 academic papers have been published, including over 100 papers indexed by SCI or EI. Four academic monographs have been published, and eight provincial or ministerial level and above science and technology achievement awards have been received. A number of Beijing local standards and technical documents have been formulated and implemented, and multiple high-level academic conferences on work safety and emergency management have been organized or co-organized.
Focusing on key scientific issues related to energy security and emergency management in the capital, the program has formed three stable secondary disciplinary directions and produced a series of high-level research outcomes, with average research funding in place of more than 500,000 RMB per faculty member. More than 30 scientific research projects at the provincial or ministerial level or enterprise-commissioned projects with funding of over 500,000 RMB have been led, and five provincial or ministerial science and technology awards or equivalent-level awards from social organizations (in the top two prize categories) have been obtained. All projects involve graduate or undergraduate students, and 100 percent of students participate in faculty research projects.
The program has hosted or co-hosted five academic conferences in this field. It serves as the president unit of the Beijing Emergency Management Society and undertakes the secretariat responsibilities of the Hazardous Chemicals Safety Professional Committee of the Beijing Municipal Work Safety Committee. It maintains close cooperation with Beijing emergency management authorities, the China Academy of Safety Science and Technology, Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical company, Beijing Chemical Industry Group and other partners. More than ten expert lectures and academic reports are invited each year, and 100 percent of graduate students participate in domestic and international academic exchanges.
International Exchange
The Safety discipline attaches great importance to its influence at home and abroad and vigorously promotes and supports various forms of overseas study and exchange activities for teachers and students. At the same time, it actively introduces high-quality overseas educational resources and builds an internationalized teaching platform. It has carried out academic exchanges and mutual visits of faculty and students with universities and research institutions in countries and regions such as the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong, establishing long-term cooperative relationships. The discipline has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Faculty of Safety Engineering at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic and carries out joint training programs in the field of Safety Engineering.
Employment Outcomes
This discipline places great emphasis on developing students' professional competence, innovation and entrepreneurship capability, and professional ethics. Its graduates enjoy high employment quality and strong recognition from society. Over the past five years, relying on the professional master's program in Safety Engineering, it has independently trained 76 master's graduates, achieving an employment rate of 100%. Graduates are mainly employed in state-owned enterprises, public institutions, universities and other organizations, where they are engaged in safety management, scientific research and related work. These master's graduates have a solid professional foundation, outstanding practical ability, a pragmatic and dedicated work style, and a strong sense of initiative and innovation. They are highly regarded by employers, are able to deliver outstanding performance within a relatively short period of time, and quickly grow into key personnel in relevant fields of their organizations, fully demonstrating the quality of talent cultivation in Safety Science and Engineering. According to MyCOS survey results, more than 90% of graduates report overall satisfaction with the talent cultivation they received at their alma mater. Annual employment quality reports show that employers give high recognition to graduates' organizational and management skills, hands-on practical ability and self-management ability.
Contact Information
Official WeChat account and website of the secondary unit where the degree program is located
School of Safety Engineering website: /pub/aqgcxy/index.htm
Contact person for the degree program: Bin Xie