Exploring to make new engineering the fulcrum of leveraging the "quality revolution" of higher education
Graduation Design "Cross-Boundary Forming a Team" New Engineering Allows Students to "Ride the Wind and Waves"
Geng Xiaoya, a senior in chemical engineering, did something to "challenge myself".
In the last half of her undergraduate year, she joined a graduation project that was not related to her major - "Semantic Search Engine for Smart Social Governance".
How difficult is this "crossover"?
It is to let Geng Xiaoya, who has never learned programming, teach computers to accurately read the intentions of human hearts.
This is one of the 18 new engineering graduation design projects that Tianjin University will solicit from the whole school in 2022.
In order to actively respond to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and cultivate a large number of diversified and innovative outstanding engineering and technological talents, the new engineering discipline came into being.
Asking for industrial development and asking for technological innovation is the meaning of engineering education reform, so new engineering from teaching to graduation design projects also come from real engineering needs, with special emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration.
Not long ago, 121 teachers from 10 different colleges of Tianjin University led 172 undergraduate graduates to end their undergraduate career with a wonderful "collective show" of the new engineering graduation project. He also found a new starting point in life from here.
The subject becomes the real question, the real practice
The "Smart Social Governance Semantic Search Engine (Industry Knowledge Graph and Big Data Intelligence)" project team that Geng Xiaoya participated in brought together 23 teachers from 10 colleges and 27 students from 8 colleges. Professor of the Department of Intelligence and Computing of the school Wang Wenjun is the general manager of the project.
"Real questions and real practice", "from discipline-oriented to industry demand-oriented", and "from discipline segmentation to cross-border integration" have always been the way to cultivate new engineering talents.
The project relies on three national key R&D projects.
The guidance team lineup of each project team can be called "luxury" - not only covering professional teachers with different subject backgrounds, but also attracting industry experts and enterprise engineers to participate in the guidance.
The "Sea, Land and Air Intelligent Unmanned System Safety Inspection Platform" includes 27 subjects, involving 7 colleges, 15 instructors, and 27 undergraduates; the "Integrated Design of Building Lifecycle Based on Modern Information Technology" project has set up 16 10 teachers and 4 enterprise experts formed a mentor group to guide 16 students to complete the project.
"The subject guide is issued to the whole school, and the instructors and students can choose in both directions." Xia Shuqian, deputy director of the school's academic affairs office, said that this determines that the instructors and students do not necessarily come from the same college.
The graduation project of "Development of Optical-Electrical Coupling CO2 Green Conversion Integrated System" led by Zhang Peng, a professor in the School of Chemical Engineering of the school, attracted 4 students from the School of Automation to join.
Zhang Peng believes that these students have obvious advantages in photovoltaic-storage electrocatalytic power supply systems and smart energy control methods.
The idea of "Cross-Boundary Formation" comes from real engineering project needs, because no engineering project can be completed only with knowledge of one discipline.
In the opinion of Associate Professor Xu Jie, the person in charge of "Integrated Design of Buildings Based on Modern Information Technology for the Whole Life Cycle", some architects' designs cannot be realized in construction projects, and some designed structures may cause problems for later plumbing and electric construction. , these "embarrassments" come from the mutual incomprehension brought about by professional division.
In the project under his guidance, a multidisciplinary team of architecture, structure, HVAC, water supply and drainage, electricity, management, etc., which is interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary, completed the "Jizhou District Xijingyu Education and Culture Center Design" rural revitalization project. An integrated design project for the entire life cycle of the building has been established.
According to Xie Hui, the professor in charge of the "Sea, Land and Air Intelligent Unmanned System Safety Inspection Platform", with a clear goal as the lead, the multi-disciplinary students are organized together to learn and inspire each other, "Everyone will work together to complete an exciting engineering system. , restoring the complete engineering world is a fruitful thing for teachers and students."
Change "I want to learn" to "I want to learn"
Change "one-to-one" to "many-to-one", from "individual combat" to "group-style division of labor", "students' interests are always the highest priority." In Xie Hui's view, from selecting topics to In the final defense, the initiative is always in the hands of the students.
The research process is more like a graduate student doing a project.
The difficulty of Geng Xiaoya's graduation project has greatly increased: she has to report on her progress every week, she has to learn "knowledge map" by herself, and she has to make a mid-term summary report.
Li Xuewei, who majored in computer science, became Geng Xiaoya's instructor. Facing the "little white" students of computer science, she was prepared to "teach from scratch" at first.
But she soon discovered that the enthusiasm and ability of students to learn independently were beyond her imagination.
At the beginning, the teacher taught with the masters and doctors in the group. Later, students from different majors learned from each other. "I can hardly believe that they can enter the state so quickly. It can be seen that they have put a lot of effort into the class."
Students also tasted the joy of active learning.
"As a management student, I originally had a weak computer foundation and lacked professional knowledge in the field of biomedicine," said Li Jiaqi, a student of the Faculty of Economics and Management. The beauty of the new engineering program is that it allows you to experience the joy of learning new knowledge.
Knowing that the "Expert Knowledge Graph Construction and Visualization Research in the Field of Prevention and Control of New Emerging Infectious Diseases" that he participated in will be really applied to disease prevention and control work, which makes him very motivated every day, and even enjoys "rich" with his classmates. Creativity and Passion” learning process.
"Guide students to actively explore cutting-edge topics, change from 'let me learn' to 'I want to learn', and stimulate students' academic interests and internal motivation." Gong Jinlong, vice president of Tianjin University, believes that this is to cultivate future diversified and innovative outstanding projects The only way for talents.
Change assessment to sharing completed projects is like Lego
In the "Sea, Land and Air Intelligent Unmanned System Safety Inspection Platform" group, many students have won an exclusive special title - "Excellent Control Engineer", "Excellent Project Manager", "Excellent Algorithm Engineer", "Excellent Communication Engineer" and so on.
Xie Hui believes that every student's talent and creativity will be discovered here and given honorary incentives.
Every defense meeting of the group has become a sharing meeting, which is especially expected by everyone.
Here, no one is judged only by the final paper.
The reporter saw in the "Mid-term Reply Score Sheet for Graduation Design of the Intelligent Unmanned System Safety Inspection Platform for Sea, Land and Air" that the assessment content includes: understanding of the research project, innovation and feasibility of the research, whether it can solve practical problems, and mutual Understanding of collaborative relationships, etc.
In the project team of "Smart Social Governance Semantic Search Engine (Industry Knowledge Graph and Big Data Intelligence)", the graduation assessment is divided into four parts: graduation thesis, test report, video display, and physical display.
The title of each project is not isolated.
"Future-oriented, cutting-edge, interest-driven, and no ceiling" is the requirement put forward by Professor Wang Wenjun for the project.
To him, these graduation projects are like a set of Lego bricks.
Each item is a relatively independent small building block. The combination of different themes can be combined into a large building block, and all the items can also be combined into a larger building block.
For each student, this has also become a process of continuous advancement: different expected achievement steps are determined in advance, and the difficulty is increased step by step, with different challenges. You can even finish a PhD."
"Each project is not only real, but also complex, reflecting multi-disciplinary and engineering practice." Professor Gu Peihua, director of the New Engineering Education Center, admitted that the students have done far more than he imagined. "Many reports Even the opening title of a doctoral dissertation.”
Wang Shibin, director of the Academic Affairs Office of Tianjin University, believes that graduation design is an important part of Tianjin University's implementation of new engineering talent training. The construction of teaching platform and project-based teaching are organically integrated, and the construction of new engineering is integrated into every measure of talent training such as enrollment plan, training plan, curriculum system, practical teaching, and the integration of undergraduate research, so as to truly give full play to the new engineering to leverage higher education.” The pivotal role of the quality revolution.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Hu Chunyan correspondent Liu Xiaoyan Source: China Youth Daily