Abstract:"Double first-class" construction is a top-level design of advanced education under the new historical conditions which aims to improve the development level of higher education in China. Mid-western regional universities are an indispensable part of higher education in China. Under the background of "double first-class" construction, there are still many problems in the existing ways of postgraduate education in mid-western regional universities. In order to cultivate more high-level composite talents who can well serve scientific research innovation and regional economic construction, mid-western regional universities should take advantages of "double first-class" construction to promote the reform of postgraduate education in terms of internationalization, team building, resource allocation and innovative curriculum system construction. This paper closely follows the overall situation of colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province, and takes the graduates education in some universities as an example. Problems existing in postgraduate cultivation of mid-western regional universities under the background of "double first-class" construction are summarized. To solve these problems, measures for reforming postgraduate cultivating way and scheme are proposed. The research outcomes can provide references for promoting the cultivation quality of postgraduate students in mid-western regional universities.

Abstract:Cultivating first-class talents is not only an important connotation of constructing first-class disciplines, but also a vital dimension for evaluating the outcomes of discipline construction under the background of "Double First-Class" construction. Regarding professional degree students, cultivating their innovation and practical abilities is a crucial role for university education under the new era. Taking the major of architectural environment and energy in the School of Civil Engineering of Chongqing University as an example, this paper investigates the multiple training models for professional degree students, which integrate international theoretical teaching mode with innovative practical teaching mode of production, teaching and learning. Also, it explores the construction of international theoretical teaching system and multi-level practice platform, which aims at improving the innovation and hands-on ability of master's degree graduates in built environment and energy.

Abstract:To cope with the needs and challenges of the fourth industrial revolution, MIT initiates the fourth engineering education transformation (MIT4.0), which can also be called new engineering education transformation (NEET); the Alliance of Excellent Colleges proposes engineering education integration innovation (EEII). Contents of NEET include project centric curricular, diversified teaching, flexibility, ways of thinking, building on the departments' strengths and defining the engineering education of the future. EEII has several parts including the development strategy of China's engineering education facing the fourth industrial revolution, reconstructing the governance system of China's engineering education, the shift of paradigm of engineering education from returning of engineering education to integration and innovation, implementation of engineering talent training mode based on industrial value chain, building a new knowledge system and a curriculum system facing engineering process, construction strategy of quality standard system of engineering talents training, etc. From the perspective of eight elements of engineering education, this study compares the differences and similarities of NEET and EEII. This study finds that MIT realizes its new engineering education by transformative behavior, a connective one.Chniese universities need to innovate on the basis of full integration to achieve the success of engineering education transformation, and to realize "corner overtaking".

Abstract:How to train first-class electrical and electronic information technology talents for the industry, the world and the future is an urgent task in emerging engineering education in universities in China. It is an effective way to learn from the successful experience of education-developed countries. Information technology personnel training in University of Toronto is characterized by emphasizing on training students' engineering and humanistic literacy, strengthening interdisciplinary integration, enriching students' learning experience, and strengthening the multi-disciplinary collaborative education system. It fully implements the educational concept of student-centered and core competence training, and has important enlightenment for the emerging engineering education and outstanding engineers training.

Abstract:According to relevant data from the official websites of the Ministry of Education, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, this paper compares the internationalization of different dimensions between Guangdong and Shanghai in terms of the internationalization policy of higher education, the institutions and projects of Sino-foreign cooperation and cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, the establishment of Confucius Institutes overseas, and the number of international students and the number of students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and analyzes the characteristics and gaps in the internationalization of higher education in the two places. The comparison shows that Shanghai is better than Guangdong in terms of policy promotion and scholarship support for foreign students. The number of Chinese-foreign cooperative schools and projects, the number of overseas Confucius Institutes and the number of students coming to China are higher than those in Guangdong. However, Guangdong has more cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao and its number of students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan is the highest in China due to its proximity to Hong Kong and Macao. In general, the level of internationalization of higher education in Guangdong is lower than that of Shanghai. It should actively learn from Shanghai's excellent experience of internationalization of higher education, take advantage of its position as the largest province in terms of economic aggregate and its neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, and seize the national strategic opportunities of the "Belt and Road" and the "Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area" to further promote the internationalization of higher education, and gradually form an internationalization development model of higher education with the characteristics and advantages of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau Bay Area.

Abstract:The Belt and Road Initiative has provided unprecedented opportunities and challenges for the development of Guangdong higher education internationalization. Based on SWOT analysis, this paper points out the internal and external advantages and disadvantages of the internationalization development of higher education in Guangdong province under the background of the Belt and Road Initiative, and puts forward the following points on the basis of opportunities and challenges. First, strengthen top-level design and clarify the international development goal of higher education; second, increase the government scholarship, optimize the "Belt and Road" scholarship allocation rules; third, enhance the strength of colleges and universities and carry out high-quality Sino-foreign education cooperation; fourth, combining with the characteristics of colleges and universities, develop differentiated talent attraction strategy; fifth, make full use of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area construction to build an international higher education center; sixth, jointly build the vocational education alliance and create the "Belt and Road" characteristic brand.

Abstract:This paper analyses the current situation of Chinese enterprises in the international contractor market from three aspects:business status, business fields and number of enterprises. It is concluded that one of the significant goals of higher education is to cultivate graduates with international vision, familiar with international rules, standards and norms, adaptable to international environment, and having international competitiveness. Comparing with curriculums offered in domestic universities, most of them are designed focusing on knowledge, but lack the cultivation of international vision and intercultural communication ability. This paper presents the model for internationalized talents training based on Byram's theory. The model has four dimensions about knowledge, skills, attitudes, and consciousness. Fuzzy DEMATEL method is used to determine the interrelationship among all 15 factors and the impacts each factor poses on internationalized talents training. The most influential factor is independent thinking ability (1.963), the most passive influential factor is social responsibility consciousness (1.696), the most central factor is decision-making ability (2.981), the biggest reason factor is independent thinking ability (1.114), and the biggest outcome factor is innovation consciousness and ability (-1.452).

Abstract:In the background of the national strategy of the "Belt and Road" and technological innovation, China's construction engineering field has expanded continuously and the industry has developed on a large scale, showing a new trend of industrialization, internationalization and intelligence. The industry has put forward new demands for professionals, and talent cultivation of engineering management needs to be reformed. This paper studies out five dimensions of the current industry's demand for talent quality by using factor analysis, literature research, semi-structured interview and questionnaire survey method, which are personal quality literacy, professional skills, personal career development ability, professional subject knowledge and application, and basic subject knowledge and application. On basis of these results, five key curriculum groups, three teaching platforms and related core training contents are proposed, which provides a reference for the reform and practice of engineering management personnel training.

Abstract:Under the background of the new era, technological innovation has become the core competitiveness of enterprises, and talents have gradually become the main driving force for enterprises to maintain competitiveness. After analyzing the lack of matching between college education and enterprise employment demand, taking the market as the guidance and combining with the characteristics of the school, this paper explores the connotation of personal training under the mode of school-enterprise cooperation and puts forward a new training mode of graduation design. Some concepts and methods like "actual combat", "one-in and one-out", "centralization and dispersion", "stereoscopic review", and "double tutorial system" are put forward. In view of the problems and challenges encountered in practice, some discussions and suggestions are put forward on the establishment and operation of the long-term mechanism of school-enterprise cooperation.

Abstract:The specialized course class hours were greatly reduced in the 2019 edition talent training plan of Hefei University of Technology. Building environment and energy application engineering would be included in the pilot program of civil engineering enrollment and cultivating. Based on this background, this paper discusses the specialty construction and talent cultivation of building environment and energy application engineering in civil engineering. The specialty characteristics are analyzed in depth, and its role in civil engineering is located accurately. Green energy is identified as professional characteristic, and energy engineer is the talent training goal. Theory teaching and practice teaching should be combined closely in the teaching process, and the curriculum system design focuses on making graduates not only familiar with the organization process of the whole industrial chain of the civil engineering industry, but also proficient in professional technology and management.

Abstract:The development of information technology has brought profound changes to data collection, research methods, planning and design, and urban and rural planning has entered the era of big data. Big data has promoted the analysis of urban problems, scientific and accurate urban space management, and has carried out method innovation in many aspects, such as regional planning, urban overall planning, urban detailed planning and design, which determines the rationality of planning results. Taking the urban and rural planning major in Anhui Normal University as an example, on the basis of analyzing the influence of big data on urban and rural planning specialty, this paper analyzes the existing problems in the existing curriculum system from the aspects of professional foundation, technical means and discipline integration, and then puts forward the idea of reform of curriculum system of urban and rural planning specialty in universities from the aspects of interdisciplinary, data digging, regional characteristics and professional evaluation. Finally, the measures of curriculum system reform are put forward through the adjustment of the curriculum and the addition of big data related courses, in order to provide corresponding reference for urban and rural planning curriculum system reform in other universities.

Abstract:Innovation ability is the superposition and coupling of management ability, professional ability, and development ability, and it is an ecosystem formed by the organic combination of overall functions. Taking the talent cultivation practice of Architecture Class 132 of Nanchang University as a case, this paper discusses the strategy and effect of innovation ability training from the perspective of the field and believes that the management ability field emphasizes the training of undergraduate class tutor system and critical thinking. General education and theoretical practice learning are important components of the professional ability field, while the discipline competitions and research training programs and innovation entrepreneurship training programs are the propellers for development ability field. The results show that the strategy is centered on students and integrates scientific research into the classroom, tested in practice, which is conducive to cultivating students' critical thinking and innovative ability. In order to improve the training strategy of innovation ability, it is believed that multiple perspectives should be implanted to break the solidification and authoritative situation of existing knowledge; vision of dynamic development should be adhered to so as to respond to the globalization of knowledge under the new information age; an inclusive support environment should be created as institutional guarantees for college student innovative ability cultivating.

Abstract:With the implementation of the Outline of the National Innovation-Driven Development Strategy, how to train high-quality versatile talents in recent years has become an urgent issue for Chinese higher education. Postgraduate education, as the highest level of higher education, plays a crucial role in national talent training, and cooperative teaching has emerged as the times require. This paper first analyzes the theoretical and practical reality of inter-school joint training. Under the introduction of traditional joint training modes, a unique new mode of joint training is proposed, that is, joint training of postgraduate students based on space-time span, which focuses on the introduction from the undergraduate to postgraduate stage, taking into account the problem of "university ease" and the imbalance of resources between universities. The dual role of "undergraduate" to "postgraduate" and "postgraduate" to "postgraduate" emphasizes the growth of students under the transfer of time and space. In addition, further thoughts are made on the status quo in inter-school cooperation.

Abstract:Under the background of unpredictable globalization, the vigorous development of professional degree postgraduate education has adapted to the development demands of the information era. and has a positive effect on national economic construction and social According to the relevant policy introduced in recent years, the state's recognition of professional degree postgraduate education has been increasing. The paper summarized the development results of professional degree postgraduate education according to the general situation of it in China. Some problems existing in the current professional degree graduate education in China was analyzed and corresponding suggestions were given.

Abstract:The way of curriculum assessment is closely related to the quality of teaching, and assessment mode can affect graduates' learning style. This paper puts forward the goal and orientation of graduate teaching and learning, explores the application of multiple complementary teaching model and supplemented multiple assessment, in order to promote the truly implementation of multiple complementary "teaching" and "learning" modes and test their effects. Taking the course of building energy efficiency technology as an example, it is a beneficial practice for the teaching reform of engineering graduate education, to highlight the changes of teachers' teaching methods and students' learning style, to fully implement diversified assessment, to promote the development of students' multiple intelligences, to pay attention to the cultivation of thinking habits, to improve their autonomous learning and innovation ability, and to help graduate students to clear their development direction and establish long-term goals.

Abstract:The course of seismic design of engineering is a core course of civil engineering. By analyzing the characteristics and problems in the course teaching, and by a questionnaire survey of students, we can deeply understand the students' mastery of this course and explore the teaching reform of the course combing with its actual situation. Subject modular teaching is adopted to clarify the learning topics of each module, and the knowledge points of different modules are explained in detail to promote the rapid and high-quality absorption of students. With the help of modern new teaching methods, online and offline learning is carried out, the contents of other professional courses are infiltrated, and the latest norms are integrated. At the same time, engineering cases allow students to understand the importance of seismic design, and combination of theory with practice is emphasized, classic cases are analyzed, deeply researched and connected with textbook knowledge, to diverge students' thinking. It provides students with multi-angle knowledge vision and uses BIM numerical simulation to teach. Through students' participating in the national college student structure design competition, combining with seismic knowledge points, students can master the knowledge of basic theory and understand the latest frontier technology and related theories of the earthquake-resistant industry. Students have a strong interest in learning, answer questions and discuss actively in class, so that they can deeply understand the knowledge points of each chapter and the teaching effect is good, and it can provide certain references for application-oriented undergraduate colleges.

Abstract:Application-oriented curriculum construction is the key to the talent training of application-oriented university. Outcome based education (OBE) revolves the definition of expected learning goals, the realization of expected learning goals, and the evaluation of learning outcomes, which is conducive to the fundamental transformation of educational paradigm from content-based to student-oriented. Firstly, from the three aspects of teaching content, teaching methods and curriculum evaluation, points out the problems that need to be reformed in the basic engineering curriculum. Secondly, based on the OBE concept, the teaching content was reconstructed, and the reform measures of engineering application-oriented teaching methods and the curriculum evaluation system with the dual effects of knowledge assessment and ability assessment were put forward. Furthermore, a feedback and continuous improvement mechanism included course performance evaluation, student satisfaction survey and third-party evaluation was established. Finally, the measures to improve teachers' practical abilities and the compilation of applied teaching materials were introduced.

Abstract:Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, colleges and universities have continuously innovated the ideological and political education of college students and created a new stage in the development of China's higher education. However, how to practice Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into textbooks, classrooms and minds, and effectively promote the integration of professional education and ideological and political education, is the focus and difficulty of the current ideological and political education research in colleges and universities. By excavating the moral education elements contained in civil engineering, taking Tongji University ideological and political education teaching reform pilot course-construction engineering laws as an example, this paper studies the construction path of curriculum-based ideological and political education in civil engineering and puts forward suggestions for further exploring the reform of ideological and political education construction in civil engineering:firstly, combining with course characteristics, focusing on the reform of teaching mode and the innovation of teaching methods, and concretizing the content of ideological and political education; secondly, emphasizing implicit education and giving full play to teachers' value leading role of affecting students spontaneously and silently; thirdly, improving students' self-knowledge and cultivating their consciousness of studying politics consciously.

Abstract:Subgrade engineering course design is one of the most important compulsory courses for undergraduate majors, such as, transportation engineering and civil engineering, etc. The teaching status and the main problems of the subgrade engineering course design in Hohai University are pointed out. Based on the scientific research resources of the Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Geomechanics and Embankment Engineering and the first batch of national key disciplines of geotechnical engineering, the course teaching plan on "scientific research-experiment-teaching-engineering" is developed, and the practical teaching mode of subgrade engineering course design is refined. The specific and detailed methods of subgrade engineering course design in practice teaching are preliminarily explored. The objectives of this research are to improve the cognition and understanding of subgrade engineering for students in related majors, and further to improve their professional comprehensive skills and innovation ability.

Abstract:At the dawn of the age of popularization of higher education, practical teaching is faced with new opportunities and challenges. Under this background and Focusing on the teaching reform of architecture specialty model making course in Chongqing University, this study discusses the reform ways of practical teaching of architectural education in universities. As one of the traditional skills trainings of architecture major education, model experiment can help students experience the concept of space and the characteristics of construction materials. On the one hand, it strengthens students' practical ability, on the other hand, it stimulates students' innovative thinking. However, the traditional experimental teaching mode is not updated in time, which makes model experimental teaching nearly lose its original position in architecture courses, even more difficult to adapt to the new development requirements. Thus this paper puts forward some specific reform schemes, such as "utilizing advantages and practicing internal skills" and "drawing support from external forces and stimulating innovation", which can provide reference for other universities in practical teaching reform of design majors.

Abstract:From the current situation of Civil Engineering Experimental Teaching Center of Wuhan Institute of Technology, taking the idea of civil engineering professional assessment (certification) as the guideline, analyzing the problems that exist in the experimental system at present, according to the requirements of the current situation of higher education training in China and civil engineering professional assessment (certification), the experimental teaching system is comprehensively demonstrated from various aspects such as the teaching management system and the experimental system. Then the solutions of referred problems are proposed which aim at developing comprehensive and innovative talents for the society. At the same time, under the existing experimental teaching system, combined with the development of civil engineering disciplines, the construction plan of the "one subject, three virtual imitations" future virtual and real combining teaching system is proposed. From personal training program, teaching system reform, and development of civil engineering, this paper elaborates on the far-reaching significance of the experimental teaching system, shows the basic framework of the "one subject, three virtual imitations" experimental system and provides several references and suggestions for others to construct experimental teaching center.

Abstract:Based on the analysis of the specific requirements for enterprise practice and the main problems existing in the current enterprise practice teaching under the background of emerging engineering education and first-class undergraduate education construction, this study takes the specialty of water supply and drainage science and engineering of Hebei Agricultural University as an example to construct the "12345" enterprise practice system of civil engineering specialty in local colleges and universities. The study analyzes and summarizes the specific requirements and implementation methods of "one core, two types of subjects, three levels, four modes and five-element management" for the establishment of high-level talents training system of first-class applied undergraduate education.

Abstract:Flipped classroom has been a hot means in teaching activities of universities in the recent years. Its utilization, however, is obstructed to some degree since both the teachers and the students have to spend much more time than that in traditional classroom. Based on identity orientation, the teaching scheme of project management is redesigned, and the teaching reform practice is carried out by using a new teaching procedure similar to flipped classroom, so as to provide reference for the teaching reform of civil engineering.

Abstract:The results of teaching reform depend on university teachers' cognition, attitude and behavior. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, the structural equation model is used to explore university teachers' willingness of teaching reform. The findings are that:some factors (i.e. attitude, perceived behavioral control, professional identity and subjective norms) have positive effect on the intention but the impact is decreasing successively; professional identity can not only influence on behavior intention directly, but also impact on the intention indirectly through attitude, and the mediating effect is significant; attitude and subjective norms have different effects on behavior intention among some groups. Reasons are discussed and suggestions are provided based on these research findings.

Abstract:It is difficult to reflect the internal differences of different majors by the statistical caliber of employment rate. The micro-structure of employment distribution is an intuitive reflection of the integration of supply and demand of graduates. Employment data of undergraduates majoring in water supply and drainage science and engineering in Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering from 2011 to 2018 were selected as samples to classify and count the total employment rate, geographical distribution, starting salary range, unit properties, occupation type, industry category and professional correlation, to analyze the changing trend from 2011 to 2018, and to compare with the same indicators in the nationwide and province wide. The results show that the overall employment situation maintain a good momentum in recent years, the employment rate of water supply and drainage science and engineering graduates of Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering exceed 94% each year and over 73% graduates are engaged in professional counterpart work. However, there are also structural weaknesses. In the future talent training reform, it is necessary to rely on the main channel of professional education, optimize the practical teaching system, bring in knowledge components related to agriculture and integrate innovation and entrepreneurship education.