Relying on the university’s strong disciplinary foundations in mechanical engineering, intelligent manufacturing and artificial intelligence, process equipment and control engineering, chemistry and chemical engineering, the Institute of Intelligent Sensing and Instruments, East China University of Science and Technology addresses major national strategic needs and key issues in the safe operation of high-end equipment. It is committed to basic research and engineering applications of intelligent sensing, detection and instrument technologies for chemical (gas, pH) and physical (mechanics, acoustics) parameters.

The development of the Institute stems from the long-term accumulation of relevant disciplines at East China University of Science and Technology. Since the establishment of Chemical Process Machinery and related majors in the 1950s, the university has maintained sustained in-depth development in mechanical manufacturing and automation, mechatronic engineering, mechanical engineering and other fields. It has successively been approved for multiple degree programs and doctoral programs, established the Key Laboratory of Pressure System Safety under the Ministry of Education, and formed distinctive research characteristics in process industrial equipment safety, intelligent manufacturing engineering and other fields. Entering a new stage of scientific and technological development, the university has closely aligned with the development trends of intelligent manufacturing and new-generation information technology. It has been approved to build the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Sensing and Detection Technology, and established the Shanghai Research Institute for Process Intelligent Manufacturing Science and Technology Innovation. On this basis, the Institute of Intelligent Sensing and Instruments was founded to advance relevant research toward intelligence and systematization.