无机非金属材料是材料科学中重要的分支学科，随着现代科学技术的迅猛发展，无机非金属材料的组成、工艺和用途不再局限于传统硅酸盐材料的范围。新型的高温、高强度、高硬度的结构材料，各种功能材料如光电子材料、介孔材料、敏感材料、记忆材料、特殊传输材料、生物材料等新材料正日新月异，不断研发并推向工业化。无机材料的应用领域从过去的轻工、建材、冶金、化工、电子扩展到国防军工、航天航空、信息通讯、生物工程、新能源、环保等高技术领域，是现代工业、农业、国防、科技的重要组成部分。
我校无机非金属材料专业创办于1952年，为全国最早创办此专业的高校之一，历届毕业生在本行业中取得了突出成绩，已成为各研究和生产单位的技术骨干和管理干部。无机材料系教学设施完备，师资力量雄厚，现有正副教授约20名，并具有硕士、博士学位授予权。本学科含无机材料研究所，并设有国家质量监督检验检疫总局认证通过的国家级宝玉石检测中心。
本专业在数十年的发展与建设中，已形成了自己的办学特色和科研方向，现以特种玻璃、精细陶瓷、陶瓷基复合材料、介孔材料、超细粉体、硅酸盐工程以及宝玉石为主要发展方向。本专业以无机材料科学和无机材料工程为知识结构的两大支撑点，并将两者有机的结合在一起。设有材料物理化学、材料结构与性能、无机材料工艺原理、热工过程基础等专业核心课程和专业实验，并开设众多选修课程，拓展学生知识面。培养具备无机非金属材料及其复合材料科学与工程方面的知识，能在无机非金属材料结构研究与分析、材料的制备、成型与加工等领域从事科学研究、技术开发、工艺和设备设计、生产及经营管理，并能适应社会主义市场经济要求，具有创新精神、求实作风、环保意识，较强的应变能力和团队精神，具备高度社会责任感和道德修养，德、智、体全面发展的高级工程技术人才。
本专业毕业生适应建材、纳米材料、新能源材料、生物材料、光电子材料、光纤及特种纤维、硅酸盐、建材、光纤、晶体等方面的研究院所，面向建材、电子、信息通讯、珠宝、轻工、化工、医药、国防军工、航天航空、建材、冶金、生物工程等有关企业和公司，可从事相关大专院校的无机非金属材料或材料类专业的教学与科研，以及进入政府机关，商、贸、检等各部门。
本专业学制4年，学生达到教学要求后，可获得本科毕业证书和工学学士学位证书。
Inorganic non-Metallic Materials Engineering
Founded in 1952, Department of Inorganic Materials in ECUST has played a great role both in education and academics over the past half a century in China. At present, it includes a research institute on IM and a National Gemstone Testing Center. About 20 professors and associate professors are working in this department.
Inorganic Nonmetallic Materials is an important branch of materials science. With the rapid development of modern science and technology, many new structural materials with high strength as well as advanced functional materials including photo-electronic materials, memory materials, sensitive materials and biomaterials are being studied. The research of our department covers special and industrial glasses, fine ceramics, composites based on ceramics, mesoporous materials, nano-materials, silicate engineering and gemstone.
The students in our university are required to comprehend the knowledge of material fabrication, material analysis, processing of inorganic nonmetallic materials, equipment designing, and production management as well. Besides, all the undergraduate students must take courses of English language, advanced mathematics, general physics, basic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, chemical engineering, physics and material chemistry, structure and properties of materials, processing principles of inorganic material, etc.
With respect to international collaboration, cooperative relationship was set up between our department with many foreign universities and institutes in Italy, Czech, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Australia, etc. Our department has been providing Master and PhD degrees as well as post-doctor programs in material science and engineering since 1986. More than 4000 graduates from the department are now serving in various fields both at home and abroad, and have contributed a great deal to the development of ceramic science and technology.