Study On Engineering Creativity And Its Cultivation For Engineering Talents

General Secretary Xi Jinping points out that "the world is undergoing an unprecedented change,and a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing drastically".After decades of continuous investment and unremitting efforts,China has made remarkable achievements in the field of engineering science and technology.However,the situation that a majority of core technologies are still controlled by other countries has not changed.It is still an indisputable fact that China’s manufacturing industry lags behind developed countries,such as Europe,the United States and Japan.The long-term imitation of developed countries makes Chinese engineers lack the ability of "solving problems creatively ".In order to break through the strict technical blockade and promote the upgrading of traditional domestic manufacturing industry,it is necessary to continuously train high-quality engineers.The demand for the cultivation of engineering talents’ creativity is increasingly clear and urgent.In order to meet the urgent need of the development of science and technology,higher engineering education should pay more attention to the cultivation of creativity of engineering talents.However,the cultivation of engineering creativity still lacks in-depth theoretical research and powerful practical exploration.The specific deficiencies are as follows: First,the connotation of engineering creativity is still unclear;Second,the evaluation of engineering creativity is still divorced from reality;Third,the mechanism of engineering creativity cultivation is still unclear.A lack of research and practice on engineering creativity has become a bottleneck restricting the realization of high-quality development of engineering education in China.In view of the above practical problems and theoretical demands,this study focuses on the core topic of "Engineering Creativity and Its Cultivation for Engineering Talents",and then carries out three related substudies: First,define the connotation of engineering creativity and develop corresponding evaluation methods;Second,analyze the mechanism of engineering creativity training process;Third,put forward several measures relating to the cultivation of engineering creativity.In response to the above research questions,this study carries out the connotation and evaluation research of engineering creativity;Then,based on the perspective of C-K theory,this study carries out the mechanism research of engineering creativity;In addition,this study selects typical cases of engineering creativity training at home and abroad,reflects on the deficiencies of engineering creativity training in China,and puts forward corresponding suggestions.In this study,through the above series of research,the following four conclusions are formed:First,through in-depth analysis of the characteristics of engineering activities,this study points out that engineering creativity is the ability to produce a variety of novel and useful engineering problem-solving solutions under the conditions of meeting specific functional requirements and resource constraints.Its connotation is specifically divided into six subdimensions and a quantitative evaluation method of engineering creativity is developed accordingly.Second,based on the perspective of C-K theory,this study identifies the main obstacles in engineering creativity training,sorts out the common methods in engineering creativity training at home and abroad,and extracts the common elements between different methods.As a conclusion,four mechanisms of overcoming obstacles in the process of cultivating engineering creativity are revealed.Third,this study designs and implements "Zhejiang university engineering creativity training project",as the carrier of experimental research,and finally collects 167 effective project reports of students solving engineering problems.The results of experimental data analysis show that six dimensions of students’ engineering creativity are significantly improved after participating in the engineering creativity training project,which verifies the four mechanisms proposed in this study.Fourth,this study selects typical cases of engineering creativity training at home and abroad,summarizes the highlights of these practical measures,deeply reflects on the shortcomings of China’s engineering creativity training as a whole,and puts forward corresponding suggestions.The theoretical and practical contributions of this study include: First,the connotation of engineering creativity is defined and new evaluation methods are developed;Second,the mechanism of engineering creativity cultivation process is revealed based on the perspective of C-K theory and the theoretical research gap is filled;Third,a series of targeted countermeasures and suggestions are put forward for engineering creativity cultivation and provides practical enlightenment for Chinese engineering education reform.