Functional materials specialty was set up in Shenyang Jianzhu University to meet the national strategic requirements of new industry development. Functional materials specialty is a strategic new industryrelated specialty to train talents adapted to the strategic materials industry and help to promote industrial restructuring and upgrading. It contributes to the progressive national and local economic construction and a talent training system with distinctive features. The establishment of functional materials specialty is an inevitable result because of the education maturity, school restructuring and sustainable development of disciplines.