Abstract

From the strategic perspective of adapting to the development of economy in the new era, the Chinese Ministry of Education has recently proposed a new concept of "Emerging Engineering Disciplines", aiming to strengthen and deepen the reform and innovation of Chinese higher engineering education. The implementation of university-enterprise cooperative education to enhance students’ innovative abilities is one of the focuses of that. With the new concept, this paper gives an account of a case study conducted at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) to investigate the implementation plan of cooperative education between universities and enterprises. The university-enterprise cooperative education mode was introduced in the context of emerging trends in engineering. In this mode, universities and enterprises cooperate to formulate cultivation program, construct a practice training system and an open teaching system, trying to emerge the mechanisms of integrating social resources, a project-driven training, and a participation in entire industry process.

Highlights

  • At present, China is promoting the innovation-driven development and implementing some important economic strategies, such as "One Belt and One Road", "Made in China 2025" and "Internet plus"

  • In order to meet the demand of new economic development in China, it is of great importance for decision-makers, scientists and engineers to strengthen and deepen the reformation of engineering education, and further build a strong nation of engineering education

  • To meet the new economic demand for engineering education and challenge, the concept of “Emerging Engineering Disciplines" was proposed by the Fudan Consensus to build and develop a set of new engineering specialties based on demand-oriented industry, aiming to improve the current reform and innovation of engineering specialties

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Summary

Introduction

China is promoting the innovation-driven development and implementing some important economic strategies, such as "One Belt and One Road", "Made in China 2025" and "Internet plus". The aim of Emerging Engineering Disciplines is to improve students' abilities of adaptation to change and engineering innovation, cultivate diversified and innovative excellent engineering personnel, solve the major challenges and problems of interpersonal relationships, and provide intellectual and talented support for the future. In the context of "Emerging Engineering Disciplines" implementation, how to set up and reform university-enterprise cooperative training mode and develop the practical training mode to establish the teaching chain from theoretical study, hands-on practice to inquiry learning, achieving the goal of university-enterprise cooperative education are important issues as faced by the cultivation of automation professionals. How to build a theoretical and practical teaching system that is compatible with the industrial 4.0 era; Second, how to cooperate closely with enterprises, and establish a long-term cooperation mechanism between university and enterprise; Third, how to combine and join the intra-school training modes and university–enterprise training modes; Fourth, how to carry out the laboratory platform construction in line with the training system

To meet the requirements of the times and the society
University and enterprises joint to construct the engineering education bases
To strengthen the cultivation of engineering practice ability
Meeting requirements of the times and professional teaching system supporting
Students innovative ability is improved obviously
The graduates are well-reputed by enterprises and institutions
The engineering skills of school instructors are significantly improved
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