International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2025, 7(3); doi: 10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070308.
Wu Xia, Wu Guoqing, Guo Biyu
Nantong Institute of Technology, Nantong City, China
The essence of design is creative practical activities, and design ability is one of the key abilities of engineering innovation. How to implement engineering design ability as a graduation requirement into the engineering education curriculum system scientifically and systematically is a problem that must be solved in cultivating engineering talents suitable for the needs of The Times. On the basis of exploring the core connotation of engineering design ability, this study takes the mechanical major of N Institute of Technology as an example, specifically analyzes the current situation of the curriculum system requiring cultivating design ability for graduation, and puts forward optimization measures to provide reference and theoretical support for the reform of the curriculum system of cultivating engineering innovation ability.
Engineering Design Ability; Mechanical Major; Curriculum System
Wu Xia, Wu Guoqing, Guo Biyu. Research on the Optimization of Mechanical Professional Curriculum System Based on the Cultivation of Engineering Design Ability—Take N Institute of Technology as an Example. International Journal of New Developments in Education(2025), Vol. 7, Issue 3: 44-50. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070308.
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