Abstract: Based on the innovative idea of new engineering, it is very important to reform and practice the course of professional English for metallurgical engineering. In view of the existing teaching problems and assessment methods of metallurgical engineering professional English in School of Iron and Steel of Soochow University, the reform and practice are carried out from teaching ideas, teaching content and assessment methods, and a set of effective teaching programs for cultivating metallurgical professionals with high scientific research quality are explored. This paper points out that the teaching of professional English for metallurgical engineering should be properly combined with English literature reading, professional representation method explanation, professional experiment and other contents, so as to integrate into the use of material representation method into teaching, so as to lay a good foundation for undergraduates’subsequent graduation design and thesis. It can be used as a reference for improving the quality of professional English for metallurgical engineering and cultivating high-quality professional scientific research talents.

Key words: Metallurgical engineering, Professional English, Scientific literacy, Scientific talents, Material characteri- zation method, Graduation papers