中南大学电气工程学院应国家能源安全新战略而生，是学校聚焦新型能源体系建设与能源产业数智化绿色化升级变革而设立的二级学院，于2026年7月正式组建。学院设立电气工程及其自动化本科专业（国家一流本科专业建设点），拥有电气工程一级学科硕士学位授权点及能源与动力专业硕士学位授权点。
学院现有国家杰青、优青以及青年拔尖等国家级人才4人，湖南省科技创新领军人才、湖南省杰青等省级人才8人，以及学生近千人。学院拥有电力电子装备与电力电子化电力网络湖南省重点实验室、电力电子系统控制与优化湖南省工程实验室和标准EMC电磁兼容测试实验室等学科平台。近年来围绕电气工程领域关键共性技术、前沿引领技术、现代工程技术等问题开展科学研究，形成了新型电力系统分析与控制、先进电力电子技术与装备、现代电机系统与控制等特色研究方向。在新型电力系统同步理论，高压大容量交交变换理论与技术、半导体装备电源等方面取得了重大突破，相关成果先后获包括湖南省自然科学一等奖在内的省部级奖励10余项，为国家经济建设、社会发展和科学技术进步做出了重要贡献。
学院将以“强电筑基、交叉赋能、创新引领、产业落地”为发展主线，着力构建高水平人才培养体系、高质量科研创新体系与高效能成果转化体系，加快建设成为特色鲜明、国内一流、国际知名的电气工程人才培养高地、科技创新重镇与产业赋能平台。
（数据截止至2026年8月）
Established in response to China's new national energy security strategy, the School of Electrical Engineering at Central South University is a constituent school established in July 2026 to focus on the construction of a new-type energy system and the digital, intelligent, and green transformation and upgrading of the energy industry. The School offers an undergraduate program in Electrical Engineering and Automation (a National First-Class Undergraduate Program) and hosts an Academic Master's Degree authorization point in Electrical Engineering (a first-level discipline) and a Professional Master's Degree authorization point in Energy and Power Engineering.
The School currently has 4 national-level talents, including awardees of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the Excellent Young Scientists Fund, and the National Youth Talent Support Program, as well as 8 provincial-level talents, including Hunan Provincial Leading Talents in Science and Technology Innovation and Hunan Provincial Distinguished Young Scholars, with nearly 1,000 students enrolled. The School is equipped with several disciplinary platforms, including the Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Power Electronics Equipment and Power-Electronics-Dominated Power Networks, the Hunan Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Power Electronic System Control and Optimization, and the EMC Testing Laboratory. In recent years, the School has conducted research on key generic technologies, frontier-leading technologies, and modern engineering technologies in the field of electrical engineering, forming distinctive research directions such as analysis and control of new-type power systems, advanced power electronics technology and equipment, and modern motor systems and control. Major breakthroughs have been made in advanced power system synchronization theory, high-voltage large-capacity AC-AC conversion theory and technology, and power supplies for semiconductor equipment. Related achievements have received more than 10 provincial and ministerial awards, including the Hunan Provincial Natural Science First Prize, making important contributions to national economic development, social progress, and scientific and technological advancement.
The School is committed to building a high-level talent cultivation system, a high-quality scientific research and innovation system, and a high-efficiency achievement transformation system, accelerating its development into a distinctive, domestically first-class, and internationally renowned base for electrical engineering talent cultivation, a center of scientific and technological innovation, and a platform for industry empowerment.
（Data as of August 2026）