The School of Electrical and Energy Engineering traces its origins to the Department of Electrical Engineering established in 1953 when the university was founded. It is one of the university’s oldest, most representative, and strongest schools.

The school currently has 117 faculty and staff members, including 90 full-time faculty members, among whom 18 are professors and 33 are associate professors. The faculty includes one expert receiving a special government allowance from the State Council, three Baosteel Outstanding Teachers, one Shanghai Master Educator, more than 10 provincial and ministerial-level talents, and two recipients of the Shanghai Talent Cultivation Award.

The total number of students on campus exceeds 2,800, including 2,113 undergraduates and 779 graduate students. The school offers a master’s program in the first-level discipline of Control Science and Engineering, as well as a professional master’s program in Energy and Power (in the fields of Electrical Engineering and Clean Energy Technology). At the undergraduate level, it offers five majors: Electrical Engineering and Automation, Automation, New Energy Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Intelligent Control, and Intelligent Electric Machinery and Appliances. (Data as of June 2026)