The predecessors of Three Gorges University, Gezhouba Hydropower Engineering College (1978) and Wuhan University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power (Yichang), were successively subordinate to the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Electric Power Industry, and entered the ranks of universities under the "211" Plan, and are first-class universities in China. Electrical engineering is a "domestic first-class discipline construction discipline", and in 1998, it was approved as a national "211" engineering construction discipline, which is a key discipline (feature) in Hubei Province; It has a first-level doctoral program in electrical engineering and a postdoctoral research mobile station.
There are 76 teaching and research personnel in this first-level discipline, including 27 professors and 37 associate professors; There are 63 doctoral degree personnel, 15 doctoral supervisors and 58 master supervisors. It has 12 provincial and ministerial key laboratories (centers), including the National Electrical Engineering Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center, the National Experimental Teaching Center for Transmission Line Engineering, the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for New Graphite Materials, the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Cascade Hydropower Station Operation and Control, and the Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center of New Energy Microgrid. In the past five years, 698 master's degree students and 2,746 bachelor's degree undergraduates have been awarded. The faculty members have published more than 700 academic papers in related fields, including more than 360 high-quality papers in three categories, 16 highly cited papers, and 16 textbooks and monographs. Undertake more than 500 scientific research projects, with project funds of more than 80 million yuan, including 32 national projects; Won 15 provincial and ministerial level and above science and technology awards, including 3 provincial first prizes and above; 225 national invention patents have been authorized, and more than 30 patents have been transformed.