Abstract:Engineering ethics education is an indispensable part of higher engineering education reform. The research on engineering ethics education gets more attention from researchers under the background of Emerging Engineering Education. Based on Natural Language Processing(NPL), with the support of metrological visualization tool, this paper selects 212 research literatures collected in CNKI. From literature keyword time distribution map, keyword frequency list, keyword cloud map, LDA topic clustering table, this paper analyzes the research status, theoretical basis, and hot topics in this domain based on the environment of machine learning. Problems that impede the development of engineering ethics education are pointed out, and some suggestions are proposed. This study provides an effective reference for promoting engineering ethics education.

Abstract:Theory of Practice is a philosophy that has been proved repeatedly by extremely successful practice and its basic ideas are widely applicable to the process of practical activities. Technical majors have a variety of practical teaching processes, they are common basic activities in students’ cognition, and students realize the leap from perceptual to rational knowledge through practical training. Students use the knowledge they have learned to counter-practice in society after graduation, to complete the second leap in cognition. At the same time the theory of practice has a good guiding significance for solving some problems and troubles in study and work.

Abstract:The major of urban underground space engineering in China is rapidly developing, and universities offering this major have grown rapidly in recent years. This paper analyzes the attributes, geographical distribution, subject’s background, and enrollment scale of the major based upon the investigation of domestic universities. Then, it introduces the main points of the national standard of major teaching quality. By investigating university samples, this paper introduces the characteristics of professional knowledge curriculum system and the publication of professional textbooks in domestic universities, and introduces the establishment of relevant teaching guidance institutions and the development of major construction in China. On this basis, a brief prospect is made for the development of urban underground space engineering major.

Abstract:While achieving gratifying results in eaching and research practices such as ecological restoration in mining areas and ecological restoration in coal mining collapse areas, we also deeply realize the need for ecological knowledge and inter-disciplinary talents in urban and rural planning. Based on this, the idea of "planning-ecology" compound talent cultivation reform has gradually come into being. That is, creating ecology course groups, establishing the interdisciplinary planning plus ecological curriculum module, introducing various of teaching methods to organize and implement teaching practices, using the method of research feeding teaching to bring students to scientific projects, and with the way of simulation and practice to devote them into researches to learn professional basic knowledge, basic skills and discipline frontier knowledge. Based on this, international education resources should be constantly expanded to construct a urban and rural problem oriented talent training mode by means of ecology theory and method and to achieve the purpose of compound talent cultivation.

Abstract:Colleges and universities are important bases for training professional talents. The training system composed of training objectives and curriculum system not only determines the direction of talent training, but also has a profound impact on the quality of talent training. Taking urban and rural planning of the Department of Geography and Planning in State University of New York at Albany as an example, this paper systematically analyzes its training system from the aspects of school-running level, training objectives, curriculum system, and teaching management. From the aspects of training goal setting, knowledge system construction, thinking method training, and professional ethics training, this paper summarizes its school-running experience.

Abstract:Three famous universities of civil engineering, namely University of Illinois, Imperial College London and Tongji University, are selected as the survey objects and the curriculum system of civil engineering in Beijing Jiaotong University is compared. Comparative analysis includes educational objectives, course framework, total credit requirements, course structure, composition of major courses, engineering practice, core course setting and so on. The research indicates that the curriculum system construction of civil engineering in the three universities has its own advantages and characteristics, which is worth learning. Compared with the three universities, there are some deficiencies in the curriculum system of civil engineering in Beijing Jiaotong University such as more total credits, higher credits for general courses on humanities and social sciences, and less engineering practice credits. Further clarifying the educational objectives, properly lowering the total credit requirements, briefing the course scale, adjusting the course structure, strengthening the quality of core major courses, introducing practice-converted credits of major courses, and achieving the integration of undergraduate and graduate courses will effectively improve the scientific level of the civil engineering curriculum system.

Abstract:Engineering management is currently used as the official major name for both undergraduate and postgraduate programs in China. For people in both academia and industry, the similarities and differences of the two levels’ education in professional connotations, training objectives and professional knowledge systems are concerned. On the basis of analyzing the connotation of engineering management, training objectives and knowledge system of engineering management majors in China and abroad, the paper suggests that the official name of undergraduate engineering management should be changed to construction(project) management. It is suggested that the relevant knowledge of construction engineering transaction theory and project governance theory should be appropriately added to the undergraduate program to meet the major’s connotation. This paper also suggests that the training mode and knowledge system for the master of engineering management(MEM) degree program should be adjusted based on the needs of high-level talents in R&D project management and technical management for engineering and technical companies.

Abstract:The New Era national strategies, the Emerging Engineering Education reform of China’s higher education, and the international certification of engineering education raise new requirements for postgraduate cultivation in traditional engineering. The conflict between expansion of graduate recruitments and promotion of engineering training objective becomes the current main contradiction in postgraduate education. It becomes urgent to consider how to cultivate qualified future engineers. The paper analyzes the critical problems in postgraduate education of civil engineering. The approaches to emerging engineering education are also discussed in terms of training concept, teaching method, mentoring mode, and seminar organization pattern.

Abstract:Construction law course is a general-purpose course for undergraduates of civil engineering. It aims to enable students to understand and master the current laws and regulations in civil engineering and to develop students’ ability to use relevant knowledge to solve engineering problems. In 2016 China joined the Washington Accord and put forward higher requirements for the cultivation of engineering talents. In accordance with the requirements of engineering education professional certification, the quality construction of construction law course is based on student-centered, result-oriented and continuous improvement as the core concepts, paying attention not only to students’ mastery of theoretical knowledge, but also to the cultivation of students’ abilities and formation of personality, and eventually guides students to become high-quality compound talents that meet the needs of the society.

Abstract:Building construction course is generally divided into two stages of basic learning and deepened learning. How to integrate innovative practice effectively in the deepened learning stage is an important problem of teaching reform. To establish a whole learning environment of integrating teaching, learning and doing, the problems of what to do and how to do it need to be solved. Teachers can reasonably arrange the thematic teaching content, cleverly use different teaching methods to establish a learning environment of teaching follows doing, doing promotes learning, and learning in practice, and adjust it flexibly according to the actual situation. The thematic teaching can take some clues to lead the whole and extend knowledge learning to method mastery. Interactive teaching with good practice experience can effectively activate students’ learning enthusiasm, and innovative practice can promote the absorption of the theoretical knowledge of building technology and cultivate overall design thinking. With these methods and the whole process learning environment of building construction, building construction learning can be developed as a bridge between architectural main courses and building technology courses and the quality of professional training can be improved.

Abstract:The introduction course of urban and rural planning is a basic course for students to understand the macro structure of the professional knowledge system, which plays an irreplaceable leading role in urban and rural planning education. Based on the evaluation data of urban and rural planning major in 29 colleges and universities, this paper analyzes the characteristics and practical effects of the professional introduction course, reviews the content organization, class duration and follow-up course convergence of the introduction course, and puts forward suggestions. The results show that: the curriculum setting is mainly affected by the university orientation, the introduction course of research universities tends to run through the whole university education, while that of application-oriented universities is mainly set in the first academic year; the content is more about principle guidance and professional introduction, and guiding content related to discipline literacy, professional learning and occupation is in lack; examination and writing small papers are often used to investigate the learning effect, but the effect is not good; the connection between the introduction course and follow-up courses is not good, there are problems such as consistent content and similar method. The research suggests that: the content of the introduction course should concern professional development and professional learning ability training, the teaching methods should add debate, off campus research, speech contest, etc., and the boundary with the follow-up courses should be clarified in teaching content and method.

Abstract:Theory and history of landscape architecture is an important fundamental and basic course for the curriculum system of landscape architecture. With the new round of changing of curriculum system of landscape architecture, this paper explores the renovation of theory and history of landscape architecture course based on illustration and proposes a teaching framework with three different objectives of knowledge and technology, procedure and method, and passion and value. This study aims to help students to establish a space-time cognition of Chinese traditional gardens, develop a holistic map for the history of Chinese garden, explore the contemporary meaning of history for modern landscape design, and understand and inherit excellent traditional cultural. It is helpful for students to form a positive outlook on the life and the world, to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and to realize the transformation of knowledge into wisdom.

Abstract:Based on the thinking of GIS course teaching reform for urban and rural planning major in the era of big data, combined with the exploration of collaborative teaching reform of GIS courses and urban planning and design related courses in the School of Architecture of South China University of Technology for more than ten years, relevant teaching experience and teaching reform achievements are systematically sorted out through introducing the teaching reform practice of frontier trends, collaborative teaching of professional courses, interactive teaching practice and innovative comprehensive experiment, and implementation path of GIS teaching reform to improve students’ innovation ability is explored. The teaching practice shows that relevant teaching reform measures have a good effect on improving the innovation ability of students majoring in architecture and the cultivation of innovative compound talents.

Abstract:With increasing international contact and the deepening of education internationalization, English for academic purposes course development has become increasingly important. By collecting questionnaire data from college students majoring in built environment, an English learning needs analysis was conducted from the following five aspects: students’ past learning experience, learning objectives, expectations of college English courses, target needs, and understanding of the necessity of EAP courses in Chinese universities. The results show that students have years of past learning experience and have already acquired the basic knowledge and skills in English. They have multiple target needs and a strong desire to associate English learning with their subject study and future career development, thus they are eager for EAP courses at the university. This paper also presents some suggestions concerning the necessity of EAP course development, multiple course design, refinement of course contents, and the adoption of research-based methodology in the hope of enhancing students’ academic communicative competence and making them the inter-disciplinary talents who are needed by the society.

Abstract:Facing the current opportunities and challenges of architecture major education, Nanjing Tech University conducts a teaching reform on the curriculum design of the second-grade architecture community service center and introduces new thinking dimensions and teaching links with the problem of "urban function repair" as the entry point. The teaching is focused on cultivating design values and design working methods, and training students to establish independent design logic and research-based design thinking method. Combining with the teaching reform practice, the content and methods of the curriculum practice are summarized, and a new means is explored to link the basic teaching and improvement teaching of design.

Abstract:The graduation design topic of architecture is generally based on modern engineering examples. However, in recent years, a type of research and exploration topic of graduation design has also been tried in various colleges and universities. This paper takes the project of "virtual restoration and renovation design of historical buildings" of Hunan University in 2019 as an example. It introduces the whole process of teaching and design, including the schedule and the focus of training. In topic selection the wishes and preferences of students are fully respected. The research-orientation of the design is emphasized, and virtual repair technology is introduced to carry out repair and renewal design. The paper shows and analyzes some teaching achievements, and tries to provide new ideas for the teaching of architectural history through this graduation design practice.

Abstract:The construction of all-weather training spaces, particularly military fitness training gyms, is in urgent demand along with the increase of military training items and intensity. However, few studies and teaching activities have been carried out to explore the functional components and spatial patterns of such buildings. Military fitness training gyms share similarities to their civil fitness counterparts on one hand and serve military purposes on the other. It is therefore crucial to identify the goals, contents and focuses of the architectural design and teaching practices of the military fitness training gyms. In light of the multi-dimensional spatial structures and the special requirements for architectural skills, students should be trained to re-arrange the space multi-dimensionally, master the structural concepts of buildings and model the architectural patterns. Taking the requirements of a particular indoor military fitness training item as an example, this paper analyses the design of the indoor shooting training center, the swimming training center and the comprehensive training center, draws the basic requirements related to spatial scale, quality, architectural structure and equipment for military training, defines the teaching contents, and summarizes teaching experience from practices, thus providing theoretical reference for the architectural design and teaching practices of military fitness training gyms.

Abstract:Based on traditional structural mechanics experiments, the current status of experiment teaching is analyzed. Furthermore, the necessity and feasibility of visualized experiment teaching course in structural mechanics is elucidated. To overcome the shortcomings of the existing teaching experiments and enable students to understand the concept of mechanics better, we try to apply DIC full-field strain measurement system to mechanics experiments teaching, replacing the traditional strain gauge and displacement gauge measurement. Through relevant experiments, the feasibility of visualization of structural mechanics expartment is verified and then a suitable experimental teaching scheme of structural mechanics is discussed.

Abstract:Practical teaching is one of the important links in the training of civil engineering talents under the background of emerging engineering education, and it is given new content and target requirements. This paper actively explores the coupling of College Students’ Structural Design Competition with practical teaching and explores from the aspects of practical teaching goals, deepening of knowledge, innovation and creation, teamwork, comprehensive quality and ability training, etc., so as to improve students’ problem analysis and solving ability. As an important platform and effective carrier of practical teaching, the coupling of the competition with practical teaching will further strengthen the education policy of undergraduate education-oriented and provide ideas and inspiration for practical teaching reform, thereby improving the quality of talent training.

Abstract:In view of the shortcomings of the current traditional teaching mode in the cultivation of innovative professional talents, the two courses of thermal equipment principle and heat exchanger principle and design of energy and power engineering are taken as examples to discuss the differences between diversified practice teaching methods and traditional teaching mode under the background of excellent engineers training. Diversified practice should be strengthened during the course teaching process, including multimedia courseware design, engineering case analysis, off-campus engineers entering the classroom and experiment, actual engineering design and practice on project site. The teaching content allows students to carry out indepth and comprehensive learning from basic knowledge, case application, experimental phenomena and results analysis, engineering field practice, etc. Diversified practice can improve students’ interest in learning and comprehensive practical ability, and also cultivate outstanding engineers who can meet the needs of society.

Abstract:Seismic design of building structures is a major course of civil engineering. Based on its characteristics of numerous contents, deep theory, abstract conception, bad effect of traditional teaching mode, a teaching mode combining engineering case and virtual experiments is proposed. The present condition and problems of seismic design of building structures are analyzed in this paper and the modes and characteristics of "engineering case-virtual experiments" teaching model is summarized, then the teaching reform strategy and curriculum teaching content setting are stated, at last, taking reaction spectrum theory as an example, the practice application of the teaching model are introduced in detail. The teaching model takes basic theory and method of seismic design as the main line. Visualization of a seismic situation helps students submit, analyze and solve problems. Meanwhile, the teaching model emphasizes heuristic teaching, students’ understanding of basic concept and principle of seismic is deepened, and students’ comprehensive ability is strengthened.

Abstract:Virtual reality technology in such aspects as spatial cognition and design thinking training has unique advantages and spatial cognitive ability is an important index of the basic education of architecture. At present, the cases of application virtual reality technology in architectural education mainly focus on the description of teaching process and analysis of technical process, while the evaluation of teaching results still needs further verification. This paper expounds the basic definition, formation and evaluation factors of space cognitive ability, and extracts the space scale cognitive factors. It also takes virtual reality technology as part of the teaching method into teaching reform, and makes a quantitative analysis on the improvement of junior students’ spatial cognitive ability in the form of a questionnaire. The results show that, after the intervention of virtual reality in the teaching process, students’ cognitive ability of building spatial scale has increased by 11.2 percent to 68.7 percent, while the understanding of the windowing scale has showed limitations. In addition, students who have been taught by virtual reality pay more attention to space experience, indicating that the way of spatial thinking is influenced by teaching methods, and virtual reality makes the relationship between visual representation and spatial thinking more close.

Abstract:The application of BIM technology has been widely concerned in the engineering field, but there are obvious differences in how to set up BIM courses and how to teach in colleges and universities. By the design of problem framework, the current domestic BIM curriculum and teaching are reviewed from the perspectives of curriculum setting goal, curriculum content, teaching methods, effect evaluation and specific solutions. Although BIM curriculum system and professional curriculum reform methods have been formed for different professional backgrounds, the elaboration to the specific details of BIM curriculum and teaching is not comprehensive. Combined with relevant literature, this paper summarizes some specific problems existing in BIM curriculum in local colleges and universities, to provide a new reference for BIM curriculum setting in local colleges and universities.

Abstract:The universities in China gained fruitful progress in strategic blueprint on personnel training, scientific research, social services, and cultural heritage since double first-class university construction was proposed. It is impossible to construct a first-class university without a first-class faculty. Therefore the construction of teaching staff has been taking as the top priority. Double first-class university construction presents new demands on experimental technical team, such as solid theoretical foundation, broad professional knowledge, excellent technical skills, planning and design capacity, communication and coordination capacity, decision-making and implementation capacity, and professional ethics. However, there are some common problems on experimental technical team construction in double first-class universities, such as unscientific construction concept, inadequate evaluation mechanism, unreasoned team structure, indecisive position statement, unstable technical team, deficient cultivation mechanism, no planning on team construction, etc. To tackle these problems, countermeasure and suggestion are put forward about experimental technical team construction in double first-class universities, which include renew concepts, strengthen top-level design, reasonable job post, clear job responsibility, incentive measures, impeccable performance appraisal mechanism, broaden the channels of the introduction of talents, improve comprehensive quality, etc. The suggestion and countermeasure can provide ideas and references for universities and colleges to construct double first-class experimental technical team construction.

Abstract:Major public emergencies are closely related and connected with the construction of the grassroots organizations of the Communist Party of China. Major public emergencies are a test for the construction of the grassroots Party organizations, and the grassroots Party organizations as the main body involved in handling the incident should be firm in "four self-confidences" and "two maintenances" to meet the difficulties and continuously improve the level of organization construction. The grassroots Party organizations must take precautions in the process of responding to major public emergencies and make emergency contingency plans, strengthen the foundation and strengthen the credibility of the grassroots Party organizations, dare to act and play the exemplary role of Party members as pioneers, be double-pronged and focus on spirit and material security. In practice, we should improve the capacity and construction level of grassroots Party organizations and win the victory in handling major public emergencies.