On the developing role of physical models in engineering design education

Recent research, undertaken using participative observation methods within the Leonardo Da Vinci project ‘Open-Dynamic-Design’, provides evidence that EU industrial practice continues to value the flexibility of physical models across a range of disciplines. This research is placed within the philosophical educational framework established by Schon and examples of implementation within the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering disciplines at the University of Glasgow are discussed. It is argued that physical models support the concurrent optimisation of design and manufacturing processes and that they represent a continuing generic tool to support engineering design education.     

多学科融合的机械专业工程热力学教学改革探索

工程热力学是机械专业重要的学科基础课,对培养现代化工程技术人才具有重要作用。通过多年的教学与实践,提出采用多学科融合的机械专业工程热力学教学模式,探索以实际应用为导向的新型教学方法。配合线上线下互补式教学平台,以及合理的教学实施方案。实践表明,多学科融合的工程热力学教学模式可有效提高学生学习兴趣,激发学习热情,增强理论结合实际的能力。     

高校新工科建设的对策探究

新工科建设是一项涉及面广、影响面宽、具有中国特色的复杂的系统工程,对中国高等教育具有示范和引领的作用,当前,国家战略和新兴产业迅猛发展,具备全球视野、创新精神和实践能力的复合型人才,在促进多学科交叉融合的新型工程技术学科建设中尤为重要。     

美国国家科学基金会工程学部机构重组及运行机制探析

工程学部是美国国家科学基金会中致力于工程教育、研究与创新的部门,在资助和管理方面对工程科技人才培养和工程前沿研究起重要作用。本研究在介绍该机构成立背景、使命与职能的基础上,着重探讨其机构改革重组后的结构特征和运行机制的卓越之处,以期对我国工程教育管理机构改革有一定的借鉴作用。     

工程教育背景下化工高素质创新应用型人才培养模式的研究

人才培养是高校的首要职责,是高等教育质量的核心,是立校之本。工程教育在我国高等教育中占有重要地位,高素质创新应用型的工程技术人才是实施国家发展战略、支撑产业转型升级重要的保障。广东工业大学化工专业严格按照工程教育专业认证建设目标,开展高素质化工创新应用型人才培养新模式研究与实践,建设一流本科专业,培养高素质创新应用型化工人才。     

我国工程硕士专业学位教育发展若干问题分析

随着我国工程硕士招生规模不断扩大,工程硕士专业学位教育的一些问题也逐渐暴露出来.这些问题的背后涉及教育发展中的模仿与借鉴、政府职能和定位问题、企业在工程师人才培养中的作用、工程硕士专业学位的社会地位和工程教育本身的社会地位等一系列问题,本质上是政府、社会、企业、工程教育机构之间 互动关系的深层次问题.要解决这些问题,不仅需要从教育内部进行变革,政府、用人单位乃至全社会对工程教育的认识的协调一致更是必不可少的环境与条件.当然这是一个渐进的过程.     

Elements of a successful capstone course considering the needs of stakeholders

One of the principal objectives of engineering education is to prepare graduates for the practice of engineering in industry. Industry involvement in the educational process can be very helpful in devising programs to meet this objective. Yet, engineering education has a number of other stakeholders including students, faculty, academic administrators, and others. Identifying and meeting the needs and wants of these various stakeholders is essential in developing educational programs and learning activities that are effective and sustainable. Stakeholders in engineering education are identified, including their wants and needs. Alternative approaches to developing a Capstone course, with input from these stakeholders, are proposed and evaluated in light of stakeholder needs and wants. A case study for developing a two-semester senior design capstone course at Brigham Young University is presented. In this example more than 300 industry sponsored, design and build, projects have been completed by cross-functional student teams over more than ten years. Feedback from alumni on the success of this course in meeting desired educational objectives is also presented.     

Product design engineering – a global education trend in multidisciplinary training for creative product design

Product design is the convergence point for engineering and design thinking and practices. Until recently, product design has been taught either as a component of mechanical engineering or as a subject within design schools but increasingly there is global recognition of the need for greater synergies between industrial design and engineering training. Product design engineering (PDE) is a new interdisciplinary programme combining the strengths of the industrial design and engineering. This paper examines the emergence of PDE in an environment of critique of conventional engineering education and exemplifies the current spread of programmes endorsing a hybrid programme of design and engineering skills. The paper exemplifies PDE with the analysis of the programme offered at Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), showing how the teaching of ‘designerly’ thinking to engineers produces a new graduate particularly suited to the current and future environment of produce design practice. The paper concludes with reflections on the significance of this innovative curriculum model for the field of product design and for engineering design in general.     

工程伦理教育中案例教学的必要性与改革研究

重视工程伦理教育是当今世界各国工程教育发展的共同趋势。以培养学生工程伦理实践能力为取向的工程伦理案例教学是工程伦理教育的重要方法,工程伦理案例教学适应了工程教育回归实践的需要,也适应了“新工科”人才培养的需要,实现了工程伦理案例的教育学转换。为保证工程伦理案例教学效果,对工程伦理案例的教学设计与学习架构,要体现跨域整合与高阶学习相结合、自我建构与多向互动相结合、循序渐进与典型针对相结合、新型评价与教学分析相结合     

基于工程教育认证的“化工分离工程”课程学习评价改革探究

“化工分离工程”是化学工程与工艺专业的核心课程之一。随着化工行业的迅速发展,分离工程在现代化学工业及相关工程领域中的应用越来越重要,这也对课程教学提出了更高的要求。文章以工程教育认证指导思想为指引,结合“化工分离工程”课程的特点,从教学大纲、教学方法、多元化评价方法等方面探讨学习评价改革。通过学习评价模式改革,最大限度地加强学生学习活动的主体意识,提升专业学习的兴趣,提高学习效率,更加客观真实地反映学生的学习情况,从而提高课程教学的质量。     

Special gender studies for engineering?

Today we are confronted with a new challenge in product development: “Diversity” needs to be implemented in the engineering design and development teams. Such diversity means to “mirror” within the teams the characteristics of different customer groups: the two genders, the different age groups, and the different cultural background corresponding to the cultural differences represented in today’s society. Thus the products and services developed in this way are expected to serve more specifically the different customer groups within society. This approach has already been proven successful, {rm e.g.}, in some areas of car design and consumer goods. Therefore, science and engineering should in this sense become concerned with diversity across society. In particular engineering education needs to focus on different student groups, especially women. Both enterprises and universities have to put emphasis on co-operation in order to achieve such focus on these new and different customers groups. But what sounds so easy in a pragmatic view, becomes more and more difficult under considerations of the traditional patterns in engineering education. It means accepting different motivations and experiences of students, especially women. It means also to accept different ways of teaching and learning and thus, different strategies in both engineering education and research. One way to develop engineering education further as suggested here, shows the new approach of “Gender Studies in Engineering” to be described in this paper.     

选择绿色工程教育——探索大学课程改革可持续发展的新模式

本文从高等工程教育发展的历史的角度出发,阐述了结合工程教育的技术性特征,构建绿色工程教育课程体系的构想,作为绿色教育在高等工程教育中的具体应用。探索高等教育以可持续发展的指导思想进行课程内容改革和教学体系创新的新型教育的模式。     

理工类院校多科性体质健康教育途径的思考

多科性体质健康教育是加速体育科学中体质跨学科拓展的研究动力,架起了体质健康教育创新的桥梁.本文将体育放在人文教育的文化大背景下,思考理工院校体育结合创新信息＂营养素＂,促进身、心、自然、社会和谐的途径.     

能源与动力工程类专业工程材料教学研究与实践

在新工程教育的背景下,创新工程教育的内容以及方式与手段都将是培养具有竞争力的新型复合型工程科技人才的重要内容.该论文基于面向能源与动力工程类专业的工程材料教学研究与实践,提出了构建能源与动力机械、材料和系统科学的跨学科学科串的学习方式、以可持续材料与能源体系为中心的教学思想、强化学生解决能源与动力系统未知与复杂...     

应充分认识工程设计教育的重要性

本文通过介绍工程设计的概念及其基本特征，指出了工程设计教育在高等工程教育中的重要地位和作用，并进一步对当前工程设计教育中的存在问题进行了分析，提出了加强工程设计教育的若干举措和建议。     

无机非金属材料工程专业工程设计训练的拓展研究

无机非金属材料工程专业的工程设计训练承担着重要的课程任务,对材料专业新工科人才培养具有重要支撑。该专业在工程设计训练的具体实施中,还存在一些问题。为此该专业开展了一系列课程的教学改革。对工程设计训练的具体实施方法进行了拓展,开展了有针对性的研究。以课外科技创新活动为载体充实并拓展工程设计训练时效,有效地解决了相关问题,取得了非常好的成效。提升了该专业学生的工程素养与解决复杂工程问题等能力的培养,对积极响应无机非金属材料工程专业新工科人才培养的需要起到了支撑作用。