At present, FE comprises a staff of 1389, together with 62 research institutes, including 382 professors/chief researchers,364 associate professors /senior engineers / associate researchers. Among professors, there are 9 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 7 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 38 professors specially engaged in the National Cheung Kong Scholar Program, 47 members of the faculty recieved National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and 72 elected MOE Trans-century and New Century Excellent Scholar's Program Candidates.
FE is undertaking major scientific research projects such as High-tech Industrialized Projects of National Plan Committee, 973 basic research projects, 863 projects, projects of National Nature Science Foundation, State Key-problem Tackling Projects and projects of international cooperation. The total research fund amounts to over 10 hundred million yuan per year.