Engineering Talents Research Articles

Reflection on the program requirements of doctoral students majoring in science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine in China

The cultivation of frontier science and technology talent to adapt to social needs and national rejuvenation is a challenging task faced by doctoral education in science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine in China. Ensuring the quality of doctoral education should begin with improving the related program requirements. Investigating 1142 frontier science and technology talents, this article summarizes the high-level abilities and essential characteristics that frontier science and technology talents should master from five perspectives: knowledge, ability, values, motivation, and traits. Using this as a reference, the problems in the current program requirements for 72 first-level disciplines in science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine are analyzed. The study found that the program requirements highlighted high-level ability; however, the essential character was not sufficiently stressed. Therefore, it could be adjusted by following the overall cultivation concept of doctoral students' core quality and adding the content of essential characters with clear guidance and discipline characteristics.

Research on the Coordinated Development of Technological Innovation,Talent Agglomeration, and New Urbanization in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

In the context of high-quality development, the development paradigm of integrating scientific and technological innovation, talent agglomeration, and new-type urbanization has become a key issue in regional development. Taking the Yangtze River Economic Belt as an example, this paper analyzes the interaction mechanism of the three systems and constructs an evaluation index system from the perspective of regional high-quality development. This paper combined entropy weight TOPSIS, coupling coordination degree model, and Gini coefficient to explore the spatial and temporal characteristics and regional differences of system coupling coordination. The evolution trend of the coupling coordination type is predicted by the Markov chain model. The research shows that: (1) The development index of the three major systems in the Yangtze River Economic Belt is on the rise, and the coupling coordination degree is in the running-in stage as a whole. The resistance restricting the coupling coordination degree is mainly the lag of scientific and technological innovation in the upstream, and the lag of talent gathering in the middle and downstream. ( 2) The coupling coordination degree of the three systems has obvious spatial agglomeration characteristics, showing a high level in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and a low level in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. (3) The gap of the coupling coordination degree of the three systems in the whole Yangtze River Economic Belt is gradually narrowing, and the large development gap among different regions is still the main cause of the Gini coefficient of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. (4) There is a location difference in the probability of coupling coordination level transfer, and the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River will still be in the antagonistic or running-in stage in the next stage, while the lower reaches of the Yangtze River will be in the coordination stage. The research conclusions provide scientific references for the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

Teaching Reform in The Demonstration Professional Construction Site of “Curriculum Ideology and Politics”

This major is guided by the principle of "application first, strengthening engineering practice ability, integrating industry and education, highlighting the background of optoelectronic industry, combining industry and management, and showing quality management characteristics". It is dedicated to cultivating application-oriented engineering talents who can meet the needs of regional optoelectronic industry and have the ability to design, implement and apply quality control systems for measurement and control systems and instrumentation production processes, and can engage in technology development, engineering application, production operation, quality management and other work in instrumentation and related fields. The orientation of the major is clear, and the service orientation is clear, which is in line with the development orientation and school direction of the university. Curriculum ideological and political teaching reform for this professional course has the unparalleled advantages of traditional science and technology courses. The education in humanistic cultivation, good moral development and solving complex engineering problems is to explore the resources of curriculum ideology and politics in the curriculum teaching.

Prospects for the transformation and development of carbon storage in abandoned mines of coal enterprises from the perspective of carbon neutrality

Under the carbon neutrality goal, coal enterprises must seek breakthroughs from abandoned mines, develop new resources in the new era, turn problems into countermeasures, and participate in the carbon emissions market, for contributing to the accomplishment of the national strategic goal of carbon neutrality. To this end, we investigated the relevant national policies and regulations to clarify the boundaries disclosed by the carbon information of enterprises, understood the development direction of carbon storage in abandoned mines, and clarified the transformation and development of carbon storage in abandoned mines. We made a few suggestions: (1) China should learn from its past experience and other countries to develop the energy industry with Chinese characteristics and reform the economic system. (2) Coal enterprises must actively respond to the national carbon information disclosure policy, clarify their own responsibilities and carbon emission boundaries. (3) It is necessary to proactively obtain advanced knowledge and plan carbon storage pathways for abandoned mines. (4) Development problems of coal enterprises should be deduced using cases. The ‘dual carbon’ goals should be achieved steadily step-by-step. (5) Three measures, i.e. improving the existing resource structure, coordinating the information of abandoned mines, and promoting the cultivation of scientific and technological talents.

Exploration and Practice of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education for the Safety Engineering Major

This paper discusses the reform and practice of Innovation and entrepreneurship education for safety engineering majors under the background of new engineering, considering the demand for safety engineering talents under the new situation and the requirements of the construction of new engineering disciplines. Taking the reform of Innovation and entrepreneurship education of safety engineering majors in our university in recent years as an example, through the construction of high-quality teaching staff for Innovation and entrepreneurship education, we built a "school， enterprise， research institution" for the integration of the innovation and entrepreneurship practice training platform, form a " comprehensive， three-dimensional， diversified" innovation entrepreneurship education system, innovation entrepreneurship education into the university training scheme, in the end, summarized the practical application results of analysis for nearly two years as well.

National innovative city and green technology progress: empirical evidence from China.

In this paper, a quasi-natural experiment of national innovative city pilot policy (NICPP) is carried out to investigate the impact of the NICPP on green technology innovation (GTI) and its intrinsic mechanism with the method of difference-in-differences. It is found that the NICPP significantly enhances GTI, and there is a certain lag and persistence in this effect. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the higher the administrative level and the more the geographical advantages of NICPP, the more obvious the driving effect of GTI. The mechanism test shows that the NICPP has an effect on the GTI through three channels: innovation factor input, agglomeration effect of science and technology talent, and entrepreneurial vitality empowerment. The findings of this study provide policy insights for further optimizing the construction of innovative cities and then promoting GTI development, ultimately realizing green dynamics transformation and high-quality development of China's economy.

Research on the development path of integration of rural sports culture and sports tourism in the context of big data

Abstract In the context of rural revitalization strategy, sports and culture industry, with its wide coverage and strong inclusiveness, has become an important grip to boost rural revitalization. The development of sports tourism industry needs to rely on innovation drive. China’s sports tourism industry has stepped into the stage of high-quality development from traditional rough development. Under the strategy of rural revitalization, the issue of the significant impact of innovation on sports tourism development is addressed. This paper uses case studies and other methods to analyze the policy background of rural revitalization and sports industry development in conjunction with the promotion and application of big data today, and elaborates the value implication and role mechanism of sports industry to promote rural revitalization. At the same time, it explores the mechanism of the integration development of rural sports culture and sports tourism from four different perspectives: factor-driven, goal-oriented, resource-oriented and sports segment-guided. Finally, the “technology-fund-talent-synergy” innovation mechanism is constructed, and through the analysis of the difficulties faced by the development path of integration of rural sports culture and sports tourism, several suggestions are put forward to realize the development path of integration of rural sports and tourism. It proposes a driving path of technological innovation, capital innovation, talent innovation and collaborative innovation, and provides theoretical support for the high-quality development of sports tourism industry.

Making CAM Use Simple

A Herefordshire father and son team have developed a cloud-native CAM solution which has now been acquired by US-based industrial software company PTC. Ryland and Michael Johnson leveraged each other’s unique talents in manufacturing and software engineering to create CloudMilling. The talented father and son’s success has not though been without its challenges

Innovation and Practice of Values Education Through Curriculum in the Course of Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves

Values education through curriculum is popular in current Chinese higher education and plays an important role in the training of new engineering talents. For the Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves course, there are problems needed to be solved, such as unclear selection mechanism of values or ideological and political elements and cases, and the gap between the fixed knowledge system of classical electromagnetism and the rapid development of telecommunication technology. In this paper, the clear construction and implementation methods of values education through curriculum in this course are proposed, and the value education elements and cases are selected according to both of the actual needs of the country and social and technological development. Through the reconstruction, expansion and modularization of course content, a blended online and offline teaching method is adopted in the class of Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves to achieve deep integration of theory, technology, and values education. The cultivation of students' knowledge, ability, innovation, and value are emphasized in the whole teaching and learning process. Since the implementation of the values education through curriculum, the achievement of student training goals has been significantly improved, promoting the implementation of teaching reform. The mode and experiences of innovation and practice of values education through curriculum in this course is potential to promote to relevant majors nationwide.

Research on the Impact of Technological Talent Loss in High tech Enterprises on the Construction of Enterprise Talent Teams

Talent is a key factor driving profit growth and the core capital of enterprises. Therefore, attracting and retaining talent is crucial for enterprises. However, against the backdrop of a shortage of talent, a large-scale wave of talent mobility has emerged. The consequence is that talent flows frequently between enterprises, accelerating the turnover of talent, resulting in a proportional loss of funds and resources, which affects the survival and development of the enterprise. Therefore, this article studies the impact of technological talent loss in high-tech enterprises on the construction of enterprise talent teams. High tech enterprises in different industries have different industry life cycles, and the impact on core talent loss in high-tech enterprises is also different. Brain drain has no benefits for business operations, whether in the short or long term. So the inability to retain, utilize, and motivate talents has become a common challenge faced by domestic high-tech enterprises. However, in order for enterprises to retain outstanding talents, it is necessary to improve the overall satisfaction of employees.

Introduction to the Reform Direction of Vehicle Engineering Major

In the era of modern technology and information development, the automotive industry is expanding, and the demand for talents in the automotive industry is getting richer and richer. Faced with the continuous promotion of the “new four” in the automotive industry, universities need to make corresponding adjustments to the current problems and future trends of the industry development in the education and teaching courses of vehicle engineering, and consider how to cultivate comprehensive talents who can promote the development of the industry in the flood of the new era. Based on this, this paper focuses on the new requirements of the automotive industry for the comprehensive quality of talents, takes the needs of the industry as the guide, reconstructs the new mechanism of combining industry-university-research, carries out joint training of school and enterprise, builds a research-oriented and open engineering practice teaching system, establishes a part-time teaching team with engineering background, strengthens students’ engineering ability, innovation ability and team cooperation ability, and realizes the docking of talents cultivated by school and talents demanded by enterprise. To establish a new mode of training talents in vehicle engineering.

Designing a deep-tech venture builder to address grand challenges and overcome the valley of death

A vital problem of the European economy has long been its limited capacity to transform technological inventions and breakthroughs into successful new companies that help solve grand challenges in, for example, climate change, energy production, and poverty. Various measures and initiatives addressing this problem have not yet resulted in increasing numbers of successful ventures overcoming the so-called valley of death, especially in the case of deep-tech innovations arising from technological breakthroughs in, for example, new materials, mechatronics, high-precision engineering, and photonics. In this paper, we adopt a design perspective on crafting a Deep-Tech Venture (DTV) builder that creates, supports, and develops new ventures arising from deep-tech breakthroughs accomplished in leading research institutes in Europe. This approach to building DTVs incorporates key elements of extant theories and tools in the field of entrepreneurship but also moves beyond the contemporary body of knowledge. As such, the DTV approach provides a comprehensive system for creating and scaling deep-tech ventures—the most complex and risky, yet most impactful breed of ventures. The DTV blueprint was implemented and further developed in a venture builder that sources technologies from leading research institutes, such as CERN and European Space Agency. The initial results are highly promising. The main contribution of this study involves a comprehensive system design for building deep-tech ventures that help solve the SDGs, one that is (a) grounded in the literature on technology sourcing, entrepreneurship, ecosystems, entrepreneurial finance, and talent acquisition and (b) tested in a major European venture builder.

Digital Free Trade Zone in Facilitating Small Medium Enterprises for Globalisation: A Perspective from Malaysia Small and Medium Enterprises

The establishment of Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ) in Malaysia is closely related to the Chinese e-commerce giant. It was an initiative to spearhead Malaysia’s national e-Commerce strategic roadmap and empowering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to do cross-border commerce seamlessly. As such, this study aims to understand the perception of Malaysia SMEs towards DFTZ initiative and identify the hidden trepidation of Malaysia’s SMEs towards the e-commerce platforms via focus group interview as per Grounded Theory procedures. The findings reveal that about 40% of the interviewees are pessimistic about DFTZ and did not comprehend the potential benefit beyond it. Meanwhile, apart from incompatible cost structure and digital infrastructure development, lack of technical support knowledge and digital talent in innovative marketing strategies are among the main reasons the interviewees hesitate to move towards e-commerce platforms. Therefore, the authorities are urged to take several measures such as providing significant incentives for SMEs to upskilling their workforce, nurturing technology talent and ensuring the development of digital infrastructure to eliminate the trepidation that Malaysia SMEs currently faced. Be realistic and pragmatic when reviewing the capabilities of SMEs against the world factory is utmost important in helping SME to go global and remain competitive.

Research on "zero distance" employment and realization path of applied undergraduate graduates

"Zero distance" employment is a new educational idea and direction, which is put forward by social progress and rapid development of enterprises for the training of applied technology and skilled talents. In this work, the concept and major characteristics of "zero distance" employment are interpreted, the research progress of "zero distance" employment is summarized and the realization path of "zero distance" employment is presented including determining the goal of training vocational ability of the post, using the integrated teaching method of "teaching, learning and doing" and implementing order-type training for deepening university-enterprise cooperation. The research results are expected to provide reference for the "zero distance" employment talent training of applied undergraduate education graduates.

On Teaching Reform and Innovation of Computer-Aided Translation Technology

In the era of artificial intelligence, translation market puts forward the new requirements for translation talents in translation technology. Nowadays, the cultivation of translation talents is far from meeting the needs of the market in translation technology. Therefore, it is urgent to for higher education institutes to cultivate the translation technology competence of translation talents. Taking South China Business College of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies as an example, this research carries out a teaching reform of the course Computer-aided Translation (CAT) for undergraduate students majoring in Translation. Supported by the translation projects, this paper conducts an empirical-experimental study on "campus class", "enterprise class " and "research and learning" from the perspectives of translation competence model by the PACTE group. The research results finds that teaching reform and innovation of the Course by the fusion of education and industry is of great practical significance to the training of application-oriented translation talents.

TGVx: Dynamic Personalized POI Deep Recommendation Model

Personalized points-of-interest (POI) recommendation is very important for improving the service quality of location-based social network applications. It has become one of the most popular research directions in the industry and academia. However, the realization of high-quality personalized POI recommendation faces three major challenges: (i) the interest drift issue caused by the spatiotemporal dynamics of user check-in behavior, (ii) how to integrate as much heterogeneous information as possible to alleviate data sparseness and cold start issues, and (iii) how to use implicit feedback to model complex high-order nonlinear user-POI interactions. To jointly address all these challenges, we propose the TGVx recommendation framework and establish a dynamic personalized POI deep recommendation model, where T and G respectively represent time and geographic factors, V represents out-of-town visitors, and x represents time slot number. TGVx is composed of x parallel TGV models where the TG module mines high-order nonlinear user-POI interaction relationships and integrates multisource heterogeneous information, and the V module transfers the check-in records of out-of-town visitors in hometowns and generates pseudo check-in records in the target city. Technically, we design a new unsupervised deep learning network T-SemiDAE for the TG module. We built a POI-word heterogeneous network for the V module and used graph embedding technology to match the most similar POIs across cities and transfer check-in records. The experimental results on the actual datasets show that the TGVx model is always better than other advanced models in terms of accuracy and diversity for local and out-of-town recommendation scenarios. Compared with the best baseline model semi-deep auto-encoder with a conditional layer the average improvement rates of accuracy and diversity of TGVx are 17.1% to 58.6% and 2.25% to 28.86%, respectively. In theory, our research effectively uses data science and analysis methods to design a recommender system. In practice, our research is motivated by practical problems, and the research results have high practical promotion value. History: Accepted by Ram Ramesh, Area Editor for Data Science & Machine Learning. Funding: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grants 71831003, 72293563, and 72172025], the Dalian Science and Technology Talent Innovation Support Policy Project [The High-level Talent Innovation Team Project 2022RG17], and the Liaoning Provincial Department of Education [Basic Scientific Research Project LJKMZ20221582]. Supplemental Material: The software that supports the findings of this study is available within the paper and its Supplemental Information ( https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/suppl/10.1287/ijoc.2023.1286 ) as well as from the IJOC GitHub software repository ( https://github.com/INFORMSJoC/2021.0010 ) at ( http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7407123 ).

The Influential Factors on the Attraction of Outstanding Scientific and Technological Talents in Developed Cities in China

With the rapid development of science and technology, the demand for talents in developed countries and regions has been focused on the outstanding scientific and technological talents. How to reflect the city’s attraction and effectively implement related policies to attract, cultivate, and retain outstanding scientific and technological talents has become one of the essential development strategies. This paper investigates the factors attracting outstanding scientific and technological talents in developed cities in China with an evaluation system composed by 8 sub-criteria indicators and 25 index indicators. The results show that the urban ecological attraction level is much higher than that of human resource ecological development. A good public service system and a standardized management platform are important factors influencing the concentration of top talents. In addition, it is important to provide related policies to support innovative companies to create a better environment that can tolerate failures.

Sensitive magnetic particle imaging of haemoglobin degradation for the detection and monitoring of intraplaque haemorrhage in atherosclerosis.

Intraplaque haemorrhage (IPH) drives atherosclerosis progression and is a key imaging biomarker of unstable plaques. Non-invasive and sensitive monitoring of IPH is challenging due to the compositional complexity and dynamic nature of atherosclerotic plaques. Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a highly sensitive, radiation-free, and no-tissue-background tomographic technique that detects superparamagnetic nanoparticles. Thus, we aimed to investigate whether MPI can invivo detect and monitor IPH. Thirty human carotid endarterectomy samples were collected and scanned with MPI. The tandem stenosis (TS) model was employed to establish unstable plaques with IPH in ApoE-/- mice. MPI and 7TT1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed on TS ApoE-/- mice. Plaque specimens were analyzed histologically. Human carotid endarterectomy samples exhibited endogenous MPI signals, which histologically colocalized with IPH. Invitro experiments identified haemosiderin, a haemoglobin degradation product, as a potential source of MPI signals. Longitudinal MPI of TS ApoE-/- mice detected IPH at unstable plaques, of which MPI signal-to-noise ratio values increased from 6.43±1.74 (four weeks) to 10.55±2.30 (seven weeks) and reduced to 7.23±1.44 (eleven weeks). In contrast, 7TT1-weighted MRI did not detect the small-size IPH (329.91±226.82μm2) at four weeks post-TS. The time-course changes in IPH were shown to correlate with neovessel permeability providing a possible mechanism for signal changes over time. MPI is a highly sensitive imaging technology that allows the identification of atherosclerotic plaques with IPH and may help detect and monitor unstable plaques in patients. This work was supported in part by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant JQ22023; the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2017YFA0700401; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62027901, 81827808, 81730050, 81870178, 81800221, 81527805, and 81671851; the CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association under Grant Y2022055 and CAS Key Technology Talent Program; and the Project of High-Level Talents Team Introduction in Zhuhai City (Zhuhai HLHPTP201703).

Exploration and Teaching Suggestions of the Role of Basic Mathematics and Physics Courses in Cultivating Outstanding Talents in Civil Engineering

Civil engineering majors are important supports for the economic and social development of the country, which is necessary to cultivate a group of professionals with innovative spirit and practical ability. The basic mathematics and science courses are the core courses of civil engineering majors, which play an important role in improving students' scientific literacy and cultivating students' innovative thinking and problem-solving ability. In this paper, the role of basic mathematics and science courses in the cultivation of top-notch talents in civil engineering is explored, and suggestions for reforming and optimizing the teaching of basic mathematics and science courses are put forward, including clarifying educational goals, optimizing teaching content, strengthening the connection between curriculum and application, reforming teaching and evaluation methods, and optimizing the talents structure of teachers.

Research on the Cultivation System of Innovation Ability of Postgraduates with Master's Degree in Engineering

As the main source of high-quality innovative and application-oriented talents in China, the scientific and rational nature of the training system of master's degree in engineering directly affects the quality of Chinese engineering talents. In order to solve the problems existing in the training objectives, teaching models, curriculum settings, degree awarding and other aspects of the engineering master training system, the paper studies the innovation ability training system and mechanism of the engineering master professional degree graduate students from three aspects: the design of the innovation ability training structure of the Chinese engineering master graduate students, the empirical analysis of the innovation ability quality structure of the engineering master graduate students, and the reform suggestions of the innovation training system of the engineering master graduate students, Clearly define the basic concepts such as the innovation ability quality of the engineering master, analyze the innovation ability training of the engineering master professional degree graduate students by using the big engineering concept and competency theory, and enrich the theoretical basis of the research on the innovation ability quality structure of the engineering master professional degree graduate students.