Modernizing China’s Undergraduate Engineering Education Through Systemic Reforms: Ideas, Practices, and Impacts (SpringerBriefs in Education)

✍ Scribed by Tengteng Zhuang

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 105
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the comprehensive engineering education reform since China put forward its New Engineering Education policy in early 2017. It presents systematic reform measures at micro-level, such as national policies on massively building up new programs that cater to emerging state-of-the-art technologies in the industry, on developing synergistic approaches to education through tightened university–industry collaboration, and on formulating the four-level quality assurance mechanisms. The book also addresses meso-level institutional schemes and implementations at several case universities researched, and micro-level issues directly regarding teaching and student learning based on empirical studies.

Overall, this book provides the international community the knowledge of how international benchmarking of university engineering education is reflected in the Chinese context, and helps readers to gain an understanding the success and failure of different practices in achieving relevant reform goals.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
About the Author
1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background and Purposes
1.2 Distinctive Features of Engineering Disciplines and Requirements on Engineering Education
1.3 The Structure of the Book
References
2 The Umbrella Reform Initiative in the New Times: New Engineering Education
2.1 The Trilogy of the National “New Engineering Education (NEE)” Policies
2.2 NEE Schemes at Local and Institutional Levels
2.2.1 The Tianjin University NEE Plan 2.0
2.2.2 The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) Plan
2.2.3 The South China University of Technology (SCUT) “F Plan”
2.3 Major Areas of China’s Engineering Education Reform
References
3 Advancing a Synergistic Approach to Engineering Education Through the Massive Teaching-Focused University-Industry Collaboration
3.1 Government Coordination Between the Industry Sector and the Higher Education Sector
3.2 Selecting Appropriate Partners
3.3 Striving for a Higher Education Innovation Ecosystem
3.4 Means Through Which the Industry Sector Helps Boost Higher Education Quality
3.5 Jointly Forming a Comprehensive Teaching Reform Plan with Colleges and Universities
3.6 Preparing and Updating Teaching Materials
3.7 Carrying Out University-Enterprise Joint Teaching
3.8 Building and Innovating the Teaching Platforms
3.9 Developing and Designing New Courses
3.10 Optimizing the Existing Courses in Colleges and Universities
3.11 Providing Curriculum-Supporting Resources
3.12 Providing In-Depth Praxis Opportunities
3.13 Promoting College Students to Participate in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Scientific Research Competitions
3.14 Diversified Implementers of First Mission of Higher Education
References
4 Fueling Changes to Teaching and Learning in University Engineering Education
4.1 Contextualizing and Visualizing Knowledge for Situated Learning
4.2 Development of Discipline-Based Virtual Communities for Teaching-Oriented Research
4.3 Creating Large-Scale Open and Shared Online National Excellent Courses
References
5 Fueling Students’ Second Classroom Experience Through Disciplinary Contests
5.1 Versatile Disciplinary Student Contests
5.2 Typical Examples of Student Contests in Engineering Field
References
6 Establishing Modern Industrial Colleges and Schools of Future Technology
6.1 The Overarching Framework for Modern Industrial Colleges Development
6.2 Piloting Schools of Future Technology in Top-Notch Universities
7 Carrying Out Engineering Education Research at All Levels
7.1 A Special Engineering Research Guideline
7.2 Reframing Engineering Education as an Independent Second-Level Discipline in China’s Higher Education Landscape
8 Impact, Challenges and Prospects of the Engineering Education Reform
8.1 The Structural Changes of Engineering Education at University Level Under NEE
8.2 The Changes in the Culture for Teaching and Learning Engineering Subjects at University Level
8.3 Remaining Challenges
8.4 Prospects of Engineering Education Reform
References