工程专业研究生课程设置是建立研究生知识结构，培养独立创新学术能力的关键。本文基于笔者博士研究生阶段所选研究生课程体系设置案例，结合针对土木交通相关专业留学人员的问卷调研，从专业课设置、跨专业选课制度、课堂教学、课后学习四个方面分析了旨在培养独立和创新能力的工程专业研究生课程设置特点。首先，美国工程专业研究生的专业课具有精简全面、难度适中的特点，其核心是全而不难，给研究生独立创新能力的提供了充足的知识储备。跨专业选课制度，具有学习领域广泛、课程质量高的特点，其核心是综合交叉，给研究生进行交叉领域创新提供了更多的机遇。课堂教学包含大量专业软件工具使用，并紧扣行业发展前沿，其核心是知行并重，给研究生进行创新提供了各种范例和途径。课后学习包括大量多样化的学习任务，训练了学生独立分析解决问题能力，进一步培养了研究生有计划性的独立完成多样任务的创新能力。

The curriculum is of great importance for the knowledge structure and academic ability of graduate students in engineering. Base on the curriculum of the author during Phd study in the United States and questionnaire research of international students with similar majors, this paper investigated the characteristics of the curriculum of engineering graduate programs from four aspects, including curriculum content, curriculum across majors, teaching and studying. Firstly, the curriculum of engineering graduate programs in the United States is more concise and comprehensive, which is very efficient to help graduate students obtain knowledge in a specific area and is the basis for independent academic ability. Secondly, curriculum across different majors extend the knowledge of students and are of good quality, which provided more opportunities for creativity in students’ future academic study. Thirdly, teaching involves studying specific software and tools and are close with the most recent advances in both industrial and academic area, which enable the graduate students to get access to academic research. Last but not the least, the study includes various homework and requires students to work independently, practicing the students’ ability to plan and work independently, which helps students’ creativity in academic research.

面向培养独立创新能力的美国土木交通工程专业研究生课程设置研究