The College of River and Ocean Engineering is the main technical support and talent cultivating base for the construction of major projects in water conservancy and water transportation in China, especially for the southwest of China. It has made outstanding contributions to the scientific and technological development and progress in inland ports, mountainous waterway and other fields since the establishment of our country.

In recent years, basing on the unique environmental conditions of mountainous rivers and reservoir areas and combined with the development strategies, including "the Belt and Road ", "the Economic Belt in the Yangtze River " and "the Shipping Center in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River" , the College of River and Ocean Engineering has formed its own characteristics and advantages in the research of mountainous channel engineering, inland port engineering, geological disaster prevention and control engineering, mountainous sponge city and environmental protection of the Three Gorges reservoir area, etc.

In addition, the college has excellent research and development conditions. There are more than 1200 sets of instruments and equipments, including PIV flow field instrument, laser particle size analyzer, ADV current meter, ARIS1800 dual-frequency sonar underwater imaging system, underwater robot, the flume test system with variable slope, ship model test system for small scale, multi-function port basin, wharf structure test system and other advanced measurement instruments in the world. Besides, there are many professional numerical simulation softwares, such as Abaqus, Fluent, Ansys, Plaxis, Nastran, Adina and so on. The total value of these instruments and equipments is approximately 160 million yuan, where the value of the large equipments is more than 110 million yuan. Moreover, there are over 500 mu of model test site here (including Shuangfu base).

1. In the 1960s, the discipline of Hydraulic Engineering here has carried out the research on the development of water conservancy and water transport in the Jinsha River.

2. In the 1970s, “the regulation of the Guanyintan Channel in the Chuanjiang River” has been completed and won the National Science Conference Award.

3. In the 1980s, the “Jipazi rescue and regulation project in the Yangtze River” has been completed and won the third prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

4. Since the 1990s, the discipline of Hydraulic Engineering has undertaken the research on navigation technologies for the Three Gorges Project and Xiangjiaba project, and accomplished the research on the key technologies for water conservancy and water transportation construction on the Yangtze, Xijiang, Lancang, Jialing and Wujiang rivers.

5. In 1996, the “HD-4B” unsteady current meter developed here has won the fourth prize of the National Technical Invention Award.

6. In 2004, “the research on the diversion and the construction of navigation for the open channel of the three Gorges Project” has won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

7. In 2009, “the theory and technology to mitigate the debris flow ” has won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award.

8. In 2012, “the research and practice on hydraulics innovation of navigable hubs and ship locks of the national high-level waterway network" has won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

9. In 2019, “the independent research and development and industrialization of large offshore cutting-suction dredging equipment project” has won the special prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.