Cultivation Of The Engineering Practical Ability In America And Its Enlightenment To Our Country

Nowadays, developing teaching quality of higher education has become an important issue, which draws a common concern of the educational circles and other circles in our society. The key standard of teaching quality is whether the students have innovative spirit and practical ability or not. The demand in this respect is higher to an engineering university, and the most important is that the students have strong or weak practical ability. If an engineering university wants to cultivate innovative talents, it must pay more attention to cultivation and promotion of the students' engineering practical ability, for the innovative talents must have innovative thinking and the innovative thinking depends on the training and cultivation of the engineering practical ability. Therefore, developing students' engineering practical ability is an important way to cultivate innovative talents in an engineering university and is also an important issue in developing higher engineering education, which the paper is to aim at.America is a highly developed country in science and technology, which is mainly attributed to the outstanding contributions of American universities. The talents they have been training have strong ability and accordingly play an important role in the country's construction and development. We should learn from them and probe constantly so as to narrow the gap between our country and the developed countries. In terms of talents' training, American universities lay emphasis on cultivation of students' engineering practical ability in respect of thinking, training aims, teaching contents, teaching mode, cooperating inside or outside the universities and so on, which provides source materials for our engineering universities to learn and draw lessons from.On the basis of consulting a great deal of information, investigating and visiting, the paper analyses our engineering universities' inadequacies in cultivating students' engineering practical ability. In accordance with American universities' practices, combining with the practices in our universities, the paper puts forward such measures as solving thinking problems, reforming the programs of talents' training, perfecting practical teaching links and carrying out general education so as to broaden the horizons of higher engineering teachers, renew the train of thought in reforming and perfect the new measures of cultivating engineering practical ability.