Modernizing China's Undergraduate Engineering Education Through Systemic Reforms

This bookexaminesthe comprehensive engineering education reform since China put forward its New Engineering Education policy in early 2017. It presents systematic reform measures at micro-level, such as national policies on massively building up new programs that cater to emerging state-of-the-art technologies in the industry,ondeveloping synergistic approaches to education through tightened university-industry collaboration, andonformulating the four-level quality assurance mechanisms. The book also addresses meso-level institutional schemes and implementations at several case universities researched,and micro-level issues directly regarding teaching and student learning based on empirical studies. Overall, this book provides the international community the knowledge of how international benchmarking of university engineering education is reflected in the Chinese context,and helpsreaders to gain anunderstanding the success and failure of different practices in achieving relevant reform goals.