The School of Energy and Power Engineering is one of the earliest-established and most distinctive departments of Beihang University (Beihang) featuring aerospace characteristics, founded in 1952 when Beihang was established. It was approved as a "National Pilot School" by the Ministry of Education in 2012.

The school undertakes two first-level disciplines: Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics and Aerospace Science and Technology. It has two national first-class undergraduate programs, namely "Aircraft Power Engineering" and "Energy and Power Engineering", as well as the "Wu Daguan Class" – a doctoral program for high-level talents in key national fields under the special plan of the Ministry of Education.

The school has built a first-class faculty team, where high-end talents (including national-level talents, experts in the national defense system, and chief scientists of major national projects in a specific program) account for more than 50%. It has 1 National Innovation and Excellence Team, 2 Ministry of Education Innovation Teams, and 10 key model support teams/joint design teams/joint research centers of Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC).

Over the 70 years since its establishment, the school has cultivated 9 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as a large number of senior managers and chief engineers. It has provided a great number of outstanding scientific and technological talents and management talents for China's aviation, aerospace, civil aviation, energy and other fields.

At present, the school has 10 national-level platforms, including the Virtual Teaching and Research Office for Aircraft Power Engineering, the "2011" Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Aero-Engines, the Frontiers Science Center for Super-Cycle Aero-Thermodynamics, the "111" Talent Introduction Base for Innovation in Aviation Propulsion Theory and Engineering, a major basic science center, the Wu Daguan Innovation Center, the Aero-Engine Numerical Simulation Center, the Aerospace Experimental Teaching Center, and the National Demonstration Practice Base for Joint Training of Senior Talents in Aero-Engines. It also has 5 provincial and ministerial-level key laboratories, such as the Beijing Key Laboratory of Aircraft/Aero-Engine Integrated System Safety and the Beijing Key Laboratory of Aero-Engine Structural Strength. In addition, it has 8 teaching units, including 6 departments and 2 centers.