A Study On The Talent Cultivating Model Reform Of Engineering Undergraduates In China

At present we are in a critical period of creating an innovation-oriented country,speeding up and upgrading our industrial transformation. With the development of industrialeconomy in our society, a lot of senior engineering and technical personnel are needed. In2010, the plan of “outstanding engineer training program” declared by the Ministry ofEducation of the People’s Republic of China shows that our country has promotedengineering education to the national development strategic level and paid great attention to it.Although in recent years, our undergraduate engineering talent training situation has gainedsome progress, there are still many problems and the quality of the cultivated engineeringtalents is not able to meet the needs of our social and economic development. Therefore, it isnecessary for us to give an in-depth study of it and reform it. This thesis considers materialmajors as our research perspective, through collecting and analyzing the relevant informationand data of the cultivation modes of undergraduate engineering talents at home and abroad,we first summarize the characteristics of the cultivation modes of undergraduate engineeringtalents at abroad as well as its inspiration, then in relate to the history, current situation andchallenges of our engineering talent cultivation mode, we analyze the existed problems of itand tentatively put forward some reform strategies and suggestions. The main content of ourthesis can be divided into the following four parts.The first part put forward our research problem and literature review. In this part, wediscussed why it is necessary to give a comparative study of the undergraduate engineeringtalent cultivation modes and reviewed the former research theories and achievements, thecurrent research situation at home and abroad, as well as the innovations and strong points inour thesis.In the second part we chose American and German undergraduate engineering talentcultivation modes as our main research objects. Linking up the situation of the engineeringtalent cultivation modes of the material majors in typical technology universities and collegesof the two countries, we studied each element in the cultivation mode and concluded theircharacteristics. At last we gave out the inspiration of their cultivation modes.The third part is the main focus of our thesis. Adopting historical analysis methodology, we recalled the historical development of our engineering talent cultivation modes. Meanwhile,we specially introduced the current undergraduate engineering talent cultivation situation. Wealso chose three typical technology universities as our case studies from which thedevelopment of our present cultivation mode reform is well displayed. Finally, we alsoconcluded the challenges which we would meet if further reform and development is carriedout.The fourth part, we concluded and studied the universal problems in material majors ofthe majority universities in our country. Integrating the development inspiration given by theforeign countries and some of our universities own exploration experience, we put forwardsome reform suggestions and strategies for these problem.