Exploration and Practice of Teaching Reform of Ideological and Political Education in "Engineering Materials Science" under the Background of Emerging Engineering Education

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhet.202615108

Author(s)

Xiaodong Lao*, Xiaodong Zhou

Affiliation(s)

School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, ZhouKou Normal University, Zhoukou, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

The emerging engineering education paradigm sets higher standards for the cultivation of engineering talents, with an emphasis on fostering students' innovative capabilities and adaptability to change. "Engineering Materials Science" serves as a core course in mechanical majors, playing a pivotal role in students' professional knowledge acquisition and career development. However, traditional teaching approaches, both in content and methods, struggle to meet the demands of talent cultivation in the new era. Therefore, integrating ideological and political elements into this course is of utmost necessity. This paper bolsters the construction of the teaching faculty to ensure adequate teaching resources for course - based ideological and political education. Relying on classroom and experimental teaching, it implements ideological and political education throughout the teaching process from multiple aspects, including teaching content, methods, models, and experiments. It excavates ideological and political elements and integrates them into teaching segments. Simultaneously, in accordance with the outcome - based education concept in engineering education, it conducts reverse design of the course teaching, seamlessly integrating ideological and political elements to achieve an organic unity of knowledge imparting, ability cultivation, and value orientation. This provides an effective path for cultivating outstanding talents with humanistic qualities, a sense of social responsibility, and innovative capabilities.

Keywords

Emerging Engineering Education; Engineering Materials Science; Course - based Ideological and Political Education; Outcome - Based Education.

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