10 Universities Approved as National Academy of Engineering Excellence
Create a "model room" for self-cultivation of excellent engineers
The prosperity of talents leads to the prosperity of the nation, and the strength of talents makes the country strong.
The education and training of outstanding engineers has been listed as the focus of high-quality development of higher education.
Recently, the Ministry of Education and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council jointly held an excellent engineer training promotion meeting. Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Southeast University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Chongqing University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and other 10 985 well-known universities have entered the list of "the first batch of excellent engineering colleges" construction university units.
my country's excellent engineer education and training program is steadily advancing.
From cultivating outstanding engineers to establishing the Academy of Excellent Engineers, the Education and Training Program for Excellent Engineers provides a solid talent support for coping with the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation.
How is the implementation of the excellent engineer education and training plan?
How to cultivate excellent engineers?
A reporter from Science and Technology Daily conducted an in-depth interview.
Provide support for engineering and technical personnel training
"my country's outstanding engineer education and training program has gone through more than ten years. It has experienced three development stages from the excellent engineer education and training plan 1.0, to the excellent engineer education and training plan 2.0, and then to the construction of the excellent engineer college." Chang Luo Yuanxin introduced that the goal of the excellent engineer education and training plan is to face the industry, the world, and the future, and cultivate a large number of high-quality engineering and technical talents with strong innovation capabilities and adapt to the needs of economic and social development. Realize industrialization and modernization, lay a solid foundation of human resources, and improve my country's comprehensive national strength and core competitiveness.
As an important measure for my country's higher engineering education to actively serve the national development strategy in the new era, the Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program was launched in 2010.
The Ministry of Education has issued a number of special policies and measures, and local governments and universities have also taken active actions to organize and implement the Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program 1.0, forming a continuous construction system and mechanism.
Facing the challenges of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, in 2017, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering jointly launched the Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program 2.0.
Wu Yan, director of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, introduced at a press conference in September this year that the Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program 2.0 aims at cultivating the ability to solve complex engineering problems, comprehensively deepens the construction of new engineering disciplines, and timely added carbon storage science and engineering, There are 71 undergraduate majors such as artificial intelligence and biological breeding, and 11 national production-education integration innovation platforms have been established in the fields of integrated circuits and energy storage; 50 modern industrial colleges and 33 characteristic demonstration software have been established in conjunction with industry departments Colleges, 28 exemplary microelectronics colleges, 11 first-class network security colleges and other specialized colleges; accumulatively supported more than 1,100 colleges and universities and more than 800 companies to implement industry-education cooperation collaborative education projects.
The implementation of the two rounds of excellent engineer education and training programs has provided talent support for the rapid development of my country's strategic emerging industries and the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.
At present, the scale of China's engineering education ranks first in the world. It has trained tens of millions of engineering and technical talents, and a large number of industry leaders have emerged, supporting the construction and development of the largest manufacturing country.
Change the teaching mode of "teacher teaches, students learn"
The education and training of outstanding engineers is the focus of high-quality development of higher education, and an important focus of colleges and universities to cultivate craftsmen from big countries.
This time, the Ministry of Education selected 10 985 colleges and universities as the first batch of outstanding engineering colleges to build colleges and universities, mainly relying on the advantageous disciplines and majors of these colleges and universities, and implementing special talent training special projects, so that schools and enterprises can jointly determine training goals, design training programs, establish teaching teams, and carry out research projects. research etc.
Taking Chongqing Excellent Engineer College, the first outstanding engineer college in the central and western regions as an example, "the college is positioned as a 'experimental field' for new engineering education reform." Executive Vice President of Chongqing University
Liu Hanlong, director and dean of Chongqing Excellent Engineer College, said that the college mainly focuses on the industrial development direction of "intelligence + new energy", breaks through the boundaries of traditional college disciplines, and is oriented by solving common industrial technology and demand innovation problems, and strives to drive development for national innovation Strategy and the development of Chongqing's intelligent networked automobile industry, and cultivate high-level talents in key areas such as new energy intelligent networked vehicles and intelligent manufacturing that are urgently needed by the country.
In Chongqing Institute of Excellence Engineers, the classroom teaching mode is no longer a teacher lecturing and students listening, but more like an academic seminar.
Students form teams based on a project system, and the results of innovative experiments can be seen everywhere in the college's laboratories.
"We have innovated the talent training model, curriculum system and teaching staff, hoping to change the traditional teaching model of 'teachers teach, students learn' and improve students' innovation ability." Liu Hanlong introduced that the college adopts a project-driven model, mainly focusing on smart cars, smart The three directions of manufacturing and product innovation set up a series of technical courses and project-based courses, build a series of common technology laboratories and application laboratories, and carry out teaching and research activities in accordance with the laboratory management model.
The student training process adopts the alternate training mode of engineering and learning. The courses will be jointly taught by teachers from Chongqing University and enterprise experts, and enterprise mentors will be stationed in the classroom.
Master of Engineering and Doctor of Engineering have accumulated 1 and 2 years of scientific research practice in enterprises, which allows students to start research projects in enterprises immediately after graduation.
Cultivate talents urgently for the country.
Harbin Institute of Technology's School of Excellence Engineers focuses on cultivating specialized talents in fields such as "energy storage technology", "integrated circuits", "artificial intelligence", "dual carbon", "aero engines and gas turbines", and "commercial large aircraft".
The first batch of 252 graduate students this fall semester has entered the college to study.
Get through the "last mile" of excellent engineers
How to cultivate outstanding engineers with outstanding technological innovation ability and good at solving complex engineering problems?
How to get through the "last mile" of excellent engineer training?
Liu Hanlong said that the deep integration of "talent chain-innovation chain-industry chain", gathering innovation resources, stimulating innovation vitality, and optimizing innovation ecology are the only way for the high-quality development of my country's science and technology and industry.
Outstanding engineers are scarce resources for technological innovation and industrial development.
Cultivating outstanding engineers is to realize the fundamental transformation of the school-running mode of engineering education from the singleness and independence of disciplines and majors to the interdisciplinary and deep integration of schools and enterprises; to realize the fundamental transformation of the training goal from emphasizing theory teaching to emphasizing the cultivation of engineering innovation ability Transformation; to achieve a fundamental change in the evaluation criteria from the merits of papers and awards to the actual innovation contribution.
In addition, it is necessary to support the establishment of a new school of outstanding engineers.
The Academy of Excellent Engineers will help strengthen the synergistic empowerment of the government and the market for education, and fill the gap between the modern industry academy and the future technology academy.
At the same time, the Academy of Excellent Engineers cultivates students' product innovation and engineering capabilities through project-based teaching and solid engineering practice, and explores and solves the innovation needs of the country and industries for key major technologies.
In 2020, Chongqing University and Chongqing Liangjiang New District will cooperate to carry out new engineering education experiments, taking the lead in creating the "interdisciplinary, project-driven" Mingyue Science and Technology Innovation Experimental Class of Chongqing University in China, opening up the boundaries between industries and schools, and achieving remarkable results. On this basis, the School of Engineering came to deepen cooperation.
At the first outstanding engineer training summit forum, many academicians and experts also pointed out that promoting school-enterprise alliances and deepening the integration of production and education are the core and key to ensure the quality of excellent engineer training.
"The cultivation of excellent engineers should change the teaching method from traditional classroom teaching to on-site teaching, and set up classrooms and laboratories at the front line of engineering." Zhang Weihong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice president of Northwestern Polytechnical University, said that it is necessary to continuously train graduate students to find problems in the front line of engineering , Analyzing and solving problems.
Xiang Jinwu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and dean of the School of Aeronautical Science and Engineering of Beihang University, believes that the current training mode for outstanding engineers in the aviation field in universities is relatively simple, and there is a shortage of interdisciplinary innovative talents. talent training mechanism.
In the "Beijing Declaration on Cultivating Excellent Engineers" jointly issued by 18 construction units of the National Academy of Excellent Engineers, it is also proposed that the training of excellent engineers should always be committed to synergy and linkage, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of schools and enterprises, jointly design training objectives, formulate training programs, and implement training processes , to realize the deep integration of engineering and technical personnel training and engineering practice.
(Science and Technology Daily reporter Yong Li)