With its strong scientific research ability and fruitful achievements, the college wield extraordinary influence in the academic field. With a construction area of 32000m2, the college has the domestic first-class hardware conditions. The institute has built three national-level research platforms: the National Engineering Center of Shipbuilding, the Collaborative Innovation Center of Major Equipment Manufacturing in Liaoning, and the International Cooperation Base for Research on Safe and Efficient Mining of Gas Hydrate. The college has six provincial and ministerial key laboratories and technology research center:theKey Laboratory of Ocean Energy Utilization and Energy Conservation of Ministry of Education, the Key Laboratory of Internal Combustion Engine of Liaoning Province, the Key Laboratory of Desalination of Liaoning Province, the China (Dalian) Energy Saving Education Center of State Economic and Trade Commission, the Supervision and Inspection Center of Internal Combustion Engine Product Quality of Liaoning Province and the Technical Service Center of Industrial Energy Saving of Liaoning Provincial.

The school has a lot of world-class large-scale test equipment such as computer-controlled low-temperature triaxial testing machine, nuclear magnetic resonance imager, high-flow transonic wind tunnel experimental platform, temperature measurement system with spray characteristics, micro-focus X-ray CT system, material experiment system and so on. The total number of instruments and equipment is more than 1,000 units, with a total value of over 150 million yuan.

In the past five years, the college has insisted on facing the international academic frontiers and closely integrated with the major national strategic needs. It has taken full advantage of its strengths in new energy sources, power machinery and heat and mass transfer. It has set up the "Key Technologies for Safe and Efficient Mining of Natural Gas Hydrates" Innovation team of Liaoning Province. The college has undertaken and participated in 3 major national science and technology projects, 4 national key research and development programs, 6 973-project, 3 863-project, 5 national technology supporting programs, 5 key projects of the National Natural Foundation and 5 major projects of Ministry of Industry and Information and GF with a total funding of 300 million yuan. The college has contributed tremendously to the country's technological progress, the regional and national economic development and the cultivation of excellent engineering talents.

The college has achieved great academic success with high-quality papers emerging. Over the past five years, the college has published more than 1,500 papers in academic journals both at home and abroad, including over 700 papers retrieved by SCI and 9 highly cited papers by ESI. The college has won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, Ocean Engineering Science and Technology Grand Prize and all kinds of provincial and ministerial awards more than 10 items. Our college has been authorized more than 90 national invention patents, of which more than 10 invention patents have been transformed.