The process equipment and control engineering is one of the earliest backbone specialties of China University of Petroleum (Beijing). The predecessor specialty, petroleum refinery machinery, was one of the oldest specialties set up by the former Beijing Institute of Petroleum in the early days of its establishment. The first undergraduate graduate in 1955 and the first graduate in 1956. Later, it renamed chemical equipment and machinery. In 1998, the Ministry of Education unified the professional name to ' Process Equipment and Control Engineering '. This not only retains the characteristics of the original chemical equipment and machinery specialty, but also gives a new connotation. Process equipment and control engineering specialty pays attention to the teaching concept of wide foundation, wide knowledge and strong adaptability in teaching. Taking modern petrochemical industry as the platform, it emphasizes the cultivation of compound talents with close combination of process, equipment and control, so that students have strong scientific research ability and innovation ability. After nearly 60 years of construction and development, this specialty has become one of the most influential specialties in the field of petrochemical equipment in China. Graduates spread all over the oil refining, ethylene, coal-to-oil, coal chemical industry, offshore oil and other national petroleum and petrochemical companies and petrochemical engineering companies. Their work mainly includes product design, production management, technology research and development, and product marketing. Many excellent graduates have become famous experts, technical backbones and senior management personnel in the field of petrochemical equipment in China. Many of them also play an important leading role, and a Chinese Academy of Engineering (Shi Mingxian) and a Chinese Academy of Sciences (He Guozhong) have emerged.

In terms of disciplines, we obtained the graduate conferral right in Chemical Process Machinery in 1987; in 2003, second-category Ph. D. degree of chemical process machinery was awarded; in 2009, the postdoctoral research station of first-category of power engineering and engineering thermophysics was established; doctoral unit in power engineering and engineering thermophysics was awarded in 2010. Multiphase flow separation technology and equipment engineering research center of Ministry of Education was approved in 2010. The subject research mainly focuses on the scientific and technical issues in the field of petrochemical equipment, with has distinctive petrochemical characteristics. We have mastered a number of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights in the direction of multiphase separation theory and technology, process equipment and engineering, and has achieved a number of internationally advanced and domestic leading scientific research achievements.

Core Courses：Process Equipment Design, Process Fluid Machinery, Process Equipment Control Technology and Applications , Heat Transfer, Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Descriptive Geometry, Mechanical Drawing, Machinery Manufacturing Foundation, etc.