1. the School of Materials Science and Engineering was selected as the Provincial Party Building Work Benchmarking Department and was rated as the advanced collective of South China University of Technology's fight against the COVID-19 epidemic and the first batch of grass-roots party-building innovation organizers studio.

2. There are 10 new national talents, including 1 Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 leading talents such as Recipients of the Outstanding Youth Fund of the National Foundation of China, and 6 outstanding young talents.

3. SMSE has been approved for 6 major key projects at the national level, with scientific research funds of 254 million RMB; it has been approved as the Provincial Center of Excellence for Basic Research (100 million RMB), the world's first Academy of Medical Device Regulations Coordination Association, and awarded two first prizes of the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology, two Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, and one Ding Ying Science and Technology Award.

4. SMSE was approved by the Ministry of Education of the 14th Five-Year Teaching Material Project in Strategic Emerging Fields, national first-class undergraduate courses, the Ministry of Education of the core curriculum for professional degree postgraduates, and the provincial teaching reform of each one; the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center passed the examination.

5. The students won 1 National Gold Award of the China International College Student Innovation Competition and 2 Guangdong Special Prizes of the Challenge Cup.The promotion rate of undergraduates exceeds 60%, of which 29 were admitted to the top 50 QS universities