“Practice” is an essential attribute of engineering education, and practical innovation ability is the core of engineering practice ability. Although the ‘scientific paradigm’ teaching in colleges and universities and ‘emphasizing on theory and light on practice’ are constantly improving, students' engineering practice innovation ability is still difficult to meet the requirements of enterprises, especially in the context of new engineering discipline. Although the “scientific paradigm” teaching in colleges and universities, “emphasizing theory and neglecting practice” is constantly improving, it is still difficult for students' engineering practice and innovation ability to meet the requirements of enterprises, especially in the background of new engineering disciplines, accelerating the cultivation of students' engineering practice and innovation ability has become an important direction of development in line with the progress of the times. As a mode of promoting teaching and learning with the goal of enhancing students' practical innovation ability, academic competitions have attracted more and more attention from colleges and universities to the cultivation of college students' engineering practice and innovation ability. This study investigates the factors affecting the engineering practice and innovation ability of students participating in discipline competitions in N Polytechnic, reveals the kernel of influence of discipline competitions on improving students' practical ability, and proposes countermeasures to promote the improvement of practice and innovation ability by incorporating discipline competitions into talent cultivation programs, curricularizing or integrating them into the classroom, assisting students to participate in the competitions, and stimulating students' motivation to innovate.

Jiang Haoran, Wu Guoqing, Guo Biyu, Xu Xin. A Survey Study on Subject Competitions to Enhance Students' Innovation Ability in Engineering Practice—N Institute of Technology as an example. Frontiers in Educational Research(2025), Vol. 8, Issue 3: 32-39. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.080305.

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