Research and Exploration of International Industrial Engineering-oriented
Talents Cultivation Mode
Guang Cheng, Xiu-fang Sun, Ai-ping Yang
Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China
(chengguang@buu.edu.cn)
Abstract
-This
article
analyses
the
basic
internationalization engineering personnel training needs,
summarizes the current training situation, put forward
notions of cultivating engineering professionals in the
present circumstances to adapt to the internationalized
education, and discuss the ways to better train industrial
engineering students who can meet the internationalization
requirements.
Keywords - Internationalization ，cultivation method，
engineering talents
I. INTRODUCTION
In recent years, Chinese engineering technology has
quickly moved on to the track of the international line
with international standards, and is in the urgent need of
the talents of international quality. But in the area of
personnel training mode, there exists a big gap between
our education system/concepts and those from overseas
countries. Traditional ways of professional training for
personnel training are still in the dominant use, which
leads to the acute shortage of talents with international
quality in China. There is an urgent need of cultivating
talents’ international view and innovation in China, in
order to adapt to the ever-increasing international demand
for quality talents. However, China’s internationalized
talents education has just begun and there are many
problems. In view of these questions, Beijing Union
University proposes the internationalization school ideas,
and tries to explore how to better nurture capable
personnel, who will meet the international requirement.
Cultivating
the
international
engineering
professionals refers to developing engineering students’
general engineering background knowledge, international
consciousness, ideas, vision and strategy.
The industrial engineering major has a history of
near one hundred years in the Western developed
countries and plays a indispensible role in their
economical launching, but it has just started in China
since the enterprise separated from the planned economy
and entered the market economy period. It was in the mid
90's that formal industrial engineering professional
education started in China, therefore it is not mature
enough to function powerfully in personnel training.
II. ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS
CULTIVATION ＆ PRESENT SITUATION
China, as a developed country, implemented the
Open Policy from 1980s and the economic development
has merged into the world economy gradually. But the
traditional teaching method has the obvious disparity with
the internationalization demand, mainly in the following
aspects:
1, Weaknesses in knowledge structure and overall
quality: talents tend to be mediocre without obvious
indivial features, and not competive enough since their
social adaptive ability is relevantly weak;
2, lack of strong professional quality: Talents can not
get down earth to do their work;
3, lack of practical ability: They can only do some
basic technical work, with no capacity to undertake and
manage large projects and major projects;
4, lack of innovation: they are lack of confidence,
ability to work independently and to create; they don’t
have a strong willpower or firm goal and are easily
frustrated; they are not able to carry out creative activities;
5, lifelong learning skills: the lack of continuous
lifelong learning and knowledge management capabilities
and habits, lack of self-development and realization of
power;
Most of senior management in the domestic foreignfunded enterprises has received Western education at
present. The proportion of our domestically educated
talents working as senior management in foreign
companies is comparatively below. The main reason is
that talents we cultivate do not meet the standard of
engineering talents in foreign companies. Local shortage
of highly qualified personnel will bring difficulties to
those multinational corporations doing business in China
and Chinese enterprises expanding overseas. Companies
are facing the trouble of finding suitable staff in key
services and management positions. Lack of innovation,
international thinking, and internationalization of
engineering skills, together with poor English standard is
the main reason that hinders Chinese graduates working
for foreign companies. The traditional teaching mode is
more theoretical, and relies on books and teaching
materials and instructors to teach. All of these lead to lack
of suitable international engineering and technical
personnel, which directly affect China’s becoming an
economic power as soon as possible.
III. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
PROFESSIONALS TRAINING ＆ DIRECTION
There is a big gap between engineering talent
cultivation in China and the international requiement, but
finding the target and actively pushing forward totally has
the potential to quickly bridge the gap.
Industrial Engineering personnel training more in
line with international requirements to an urgent need for
the following areas to strengthen the work:
1, establishing training goals of internationalization
To establish an international training objective, in
terms of ideology to cultivate the students' international
awareness, mainly to promote the mutual understanding
of different peoples, cultures and strengthen international
understanding, so that students can gain a profound
understanding of multiculturalism, can fully communicate
ideas in the international cultural exchange, and can make
judge start from a broad perspective of the international
community and all mankind.
The introduction of target schools, teaching methods
and standards established culture consistent with the
direction of foreign target colleges and universities,
training methods to the curriculum until the means of
teaching positive introduction to learning, to avoid blind
groping, do not work, and in high standard, which is
Industrial Engineering rapidly into an international firstclass shortcut. Industrial Engineering of Tsinghua
University in this respect is in place, successful learning
at Purdue University industrial engineering culture and
teaching methods, and the professional quickly build a
world-class professional.
2, the introduction of resources to promote the
internationalization of faculty
Internationalization of students depends on the
availability of international teaching staff, inviting foreign
experts and scholars to serve part-time and channels of
communication,
to
facilitate
the
process
of
internationalization of the school talent. Students '
exposure to the different cultural backgrounds of teachers
of different views and methods, form a multicultural,
international atmosphere of coexistence of multiple views,
multiple ways of thinking, to foster students '
understanding of different cultures and the ability to
analyze the problem from a variety of angles.
Strengthening the international construction of the
internal faculty can actively establish measures to allow
young teachers abroad for further studies to improve with
a doctoral degree; Strengthening links with the
internationalization of enterprises may selectively engage
leading entrepreneurs to school part-time teaching or
tempering to large and medium-sized enterprises;
Building inter-school relationships with similar
institutions abroad, faculty of industrial engineering
specialty through visits, study and education, raise the
level of academic and scientific research abilities, to adapt
to the changing international situation of economic
competition, engineering talent can be developed in line
with international requirements.
3, improving teaching content and curriculum system
of industrial engineering, the professional course structure
should be optimized in accordance with the international
industrial engineering professional engineer certification
standards and international professional certification
standards. Graduates with international knowledge
system, stronger adaptability and potential for further
development are easier to be accepted by international
companies. Industrial Engineering professionals in the
United States have a mature certification standards and
assessment methods, and professional engineers for the
domestic education reforms to find a good basis.
The internationalization of the industrial engineering
curriculum materials, Talent standard international
requires courses and textbooks as core in the field of
education reform to be on the internationalization path.
Internationalization of education requirements to establish
the concept of globalization of course, to learn from
foreign advanced curriculum ideas, introduction, learn
from foreign advanced materials, to build practical ability
to cultivate the spirit of innovation and industrial
engineering to solve practical problems as the core
curriculum system, thus the need to vigorously promote
the extent and level of internationalization of curriculum
and materials to foster the international competitiveness
of industrial engineering professionals.
Adjusting the curriculum to meet the needs of
society, to really make the cultivation of China's industrial
engineering students accepted by the internationalization
of domestic enterprises, Investigations and studies should
be conducted to directly the enterprise, according to the
enterprise to the industrial engineering professional's
specific request design teaching curriculum and the course
content, strengthens in practically the teaching the theory
divorced from practice weak link. Further build the
curriculum system with international standards, to update
teaching content, and focus on the most cutting-edge
scientific and technological knowledge into teaching.
4, Promoting exchange and cooperation with the
business community
The training is designed for the business end, with
the cooperation and exchange business essential, teachers
and students must pay close attention of the practical
issues. Therefore the industrial engineering specialized
must establish the education teaching and practice base in
the enterprise which the professionals raise; Experienced
enterprise personnel can be invited to do the teaching.
5, the major categories of training, innovation
education, based on model innovation
Industrial Engineering is a professional cultured
composite applications personnel, and requires the
teaching to include a more comprehensive engineering
background knowledge of mechanics, control of both the
management knowledge therefore need to coordinate
Required classes, limited to the relationship between
elective and elective courses, in order to mobilize the
students' enthusiasm and initiative. In order to better
address these issues, industrial engineering major in our
University entered the machinery class enrollment,
practice. This will help to improve the ability of students’
general engineering technology, and better meet the needs
of social development.
In order to change the phenomenon of imparingt
book knowledge and neglect of the ability and skills
training, the teaching should reverse the theory divorced
from the actual situation, the teaching content close to the
practice of social production. Industrial engineering
professional teaching training innovation ability is the
main line, pay attention to the comprehensive quality of
students.
This will be elaborated from the following areas:
1) Enhancing practice teaching,
reflecting the strong capability, and high
quality, the thinking through the social
investigation, production internship guide
students into future entrepreneurs, the case
teaching role penetration occurred, taught in
the professional development of students'
responses, and of the capacity.
2) Establishing a relatively stable
school, off-campus internships, practice
base, to create a good engineering practice.
There are plans to arrange for students to the
norms of international business practice and
improve their ability to work;
3) Establishing
the
second
classroom, student competitions, training
comprehensive ability of students;
4) Combining common effective
ways of cultivating talent, relying on
common
training
and
international
enterprise cooperation, enterprises engaged
in professional orientation, curriculum
development, and business specialist
teaching of certain tasks simultaneously.
IV. DISCUSSION ＆ CONCLUSION
In order to solve the problems listed above, training
in line with the needs of international talent, Beijing
Union University, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Industrial
Engineering
(Modern
Manufacturing
Engineering Management) professional years a wide
range of practice and exploration. Industrial Engineering
in the advanced Western countries has a long history of
development, in a sense, is the development of the
discipline that ensures the United States and Japan
become industrialized powers and economic power. But
the profession in China is still a new profession, only 10
years old, is gradually developed with the enterprise
market competition disciplines. Industrial Engineering of
Beijing Union University is committed to the efficiency
of the manufacturing and service systems to improve
quality and safety assurance and cost reduction, lean
improvement methods and techniques applied to
manufacturing is our specialty, while the concept of lean
design applied to the design manufacturing service and
product innovation have achieved very good social
benefits. The main practices are as follows:
1) Industrial Engineering certified in accordance
with the international standard design the syllabus and
training program, Taiwan, China University of Industrial
Engineering with a higher level, from curriculum to
teaching operation to refer to the experience of these
colleges and universities. This same time, the assessment
criteria in accordance with the American Institute of
Industrial Engineers, modify and develop teaching
programs.
2) To actively promote industrial engineering
students engineer professional qualification certification.
Beijing Union University, College of Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering as the first batch of trainee
industrial engineer examiners institutions and members of
the Group school to carry out the first certification of
trainee industrial engineer. The first batch of 30 industrial
engineering third-grade students took the exam and the
pass rate was 75%. As the Beijing Institute of Industrial
Engineers work unit, this played a lead trainee industrial
engineer certified in the Capital Region.
3) Active exchange with the high-level international
experts and scholars. Participate in and organize the field
of Industrial Engineering International Conference, access
to more mutual understanding and improve the
opportunity. The IEEE sixteenth Industrial Engineering
International Conference, organized in 2009 as the
Undertaker, and there was to expand the impact of school
and professional, and exercise to improve the team, and
make friends. This at the same time actively seeks
opportunities to introduce foreign teachers to teach and
lecture for the students, laid the foundation for the
Institute of internationalization school.
4) Actively apply for transverse and longitudinal
research projects, training research team, to serve the
community. Apply for the provincial and ministerial level
scientific research topics, and enterprise scientific
research topics. Lean improvement in the manufacturing
and service systems, high-tech products, man-machine
design is gradually recognized by the enterprise.
5) Actively organize industrial engineering students
participate in undergraduate science and technology
contest through the joint efforts of teachers and students,
in the national logistics case competition and the capital
of industrial engineering design competition for good
results. To explore new ways to foster the
internationalization of applied engineering talent.
Culture in line with international business needs of
the industrial engineering professionals is a difficult
process of innovation, and only through the tireless efforts
and innovative thinking, can we truly cultivate the
industrial engineering professionals with international
thinking to meet the business needs.
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