工程教育与产业发展相互支撑、紧密联系，培养经济社会发展需要的工程人才是工程教育的使命，也是产业发展需要。基于美国工程教育发展历程和产业结构发展史的视野，融入美国工程教育范式的演变，概括出从1783年到1990年，即美国工程教育技术范式初级阶段到科学范式的过程中，美国从农业大国转变成以第三产业为主的信息化大国，工程教育与产业结构的关系经历了回应、适应、带动三个阶段，并推导出1990年至今，即第四次产业革命下，回归范式的工程教育理应引领产业结构发展。

Engineering education and industrial development are mutually supportive and closely linked. The cultivation of engineering talents needed for economic and social development is the mission of engineering education and industrial development. Based on the development history of American engineering education and the history of industrial structure development, it integrates into the evolution of American engineering education paradigm, summarizing 1783 to 1990, the process from the first stage of the American engineering education technology paradigm to the scientific paradigm, the United States has transformed from a big agricultural country to a information country. And the relationship between engineering education and industrial structure has undergone three stages of response, adaptation and leading. And derived from 1990 to the present, that is, under the fourth industrial revolution, the engineering education of the return paradigm should lead the development of industrial structure.

2019年度华南理工大学高等教育研究基金项目“区域产业集群与学科集群融合之路径研究”；重点项目；编号 gj2019008