A Study On The Present Situation And Countermeasures Of Engineering Students' Practical Ability

A new round of industrial revolution is unfolding,and the economic situation of new technology and the new model are in the ascendant.It is urgent to train a large number of engineering talents to break through the core key technologies and build up the first-mover advantage,which will occupy the strategic commanding heights in the global innovation ecosystem.In the field of higher education,New Engineering are proposed to meet the requirements of the new era.The construction of New Engineering clearly points out that talents with higher engineering practice ability and innovation ability should be trained.Therefore,students should not only have a profound scientific foundation,but also have strong engineering practice ability.It is particularly important for school to pay attention to the cultivation of students' engineering practice ability under the background of the new economy.In this paper,the engineering practice ability is studied under the background of New Engineering,the connotation of engineering practice ability is further clarified,the engineering practice ability,practical operation ability and academic theory literacy are discriminated,and the similarities and differences are discussed.As a new educational concept STEAM education theory can be used for reference in the training of Engineering talents.Based on STEAM education theory,an index system of Engineering students' engineering practice ability was designed through using the method of documentary analysis and analytic hierarchy process.Through the empirical investigation,the present situation is concluded: the ability of project operation is characterized by strong logical thinking ability and weak independent design ability;the ability of shaping the future is characterized by solid theoretical foundation,insufficient interdisciplinary and innovative ability;and the ability of team cooperation is characterized by high sense of community and lack of expressive ability.On the basis of summarizing the current situation and regression analysis of influencing factors,four aspects of cultivating engineering practical ability are summarized: firstly,there are limitations in scientific research projects and few frontier topics;secondly,students are lack of self-guiding ideas and weak in awareness of raising problems;thirdly,curriculum design is mostly specific subjects,and ignoring the infiltration of interdisciplinary and humanistic literacy;lastly,practice teaching bias program,and school-enterprise cooperation is superficial.In view of the problems existing in the process of cultivation,some suggestions and countermeasures are proposed.