Management & Engineering 19 (2015) 1838-5745
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Research and Practice for Electrical Engineering and Automation
Specialty Construction
Jianguo WANG ∗, Yudong YANG
Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai’an 223002, Jiangsu, P.R.China
KEYWORDS
Specialty construction,
Electrical engineering,
Teaching quality,
Teaching effectiveness
ABSTRACT
Specialty construction is an important carrier of current university personnel training, and is
the important teaching content which deepens the teaching reform and improves the teaching
quality. It has become an important task for the university undergraduate teaching quality
construction how to determine the objectives and implementation programs of specialty
construction and clear the professional standards and professional certification and features
professional relationship. Under the new development and new requirements for the field of
electrical engineering and automation, Huaiyin Institute of Technology has explored diverse
talent training mode during the specialized construction process, and has taken several major
steps to ensure the teaching quality, and has determined the personnel location, and has
optimized personnel training objectives, and has strengthened the practice teaching and the
training base construction, and has built a new education system with the combination of
system imparting and exploration research.
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1 Introduction
Profession construction is an important strategic tool for universities to survive and develop in the new situation of higher education
popularization, in order to further deepen the education reform. It is great significance for university to promote the professional
construction and constantly improve the education quality and school effectiveness and develop the professional brand characteristics
conduct. Specialty construction further optimizes the professional set, and improves the overall level of professional development
and the quality of personnel training, it is an important means for university to improve the personnel training quality and
effectiveness and talent competitiveness. Specialty constructions is the important starting point and ending point to strengthen the
university educational reform, implement the “Quality Project” and improve the personnel training quality. Electrical engineering
and automation is a multi-disciplinary integration, which includes electronics, computers, power and control, professional knowledge
develops rapidly, new theories and new technologies emerge endlessly, and a personnel training that has a wide range of universality.
Huaiyin institute of technology determined electrical engineering and automation as specialty construction based in Jiangsu and
market-oriented. It relies on the advantages of school discipline, faces the electrical, mechanical, construction, metallurgy and other
industries. The undergraduates of the applied and compound in the field of electrical engineering are regarded as the main training
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objectives to provide the innovative electrical class backbone technical personnel with wide caliber, thick foundation, strong and high
quality for the community [1].
2 The Objective of Specialty Construction
Profession development goals for electrical engineering and automation of Huaiyin institute of technology are to develop the overall
talent training mode of five combinations; they are strong and weak electrical or electrical technology and electronics technology or
software and hardware or components and system or operation and development to cultivate the innovative and complex engineering
senior engineering and management personnel in electrical fields. The disciplines construction, teaching staff, personnel training, the
scientific research and experimental platform building will make great progress, and the construction achievements will play a
similar reference and exemplary role for the construction and reforms in electrical engineering. The characteristics profession fully
reflects school orientation, and has high level school characteristics in the fields of the objectives, faculty, curriculum, teaching
conditions and other aspects to obtain social identity and higher social reputation. The profession formation is the result of long term
construction and the concentrated expression of the school’s strengths and characteristics. To carry out the specialized construction is
to promote personnel training colleges in close contact with the social needs and optimize the professional structure and form an
effective professional development mechanism. It will lead universities to realize the scientific and accurate positioning according to
their own reality, play educational advantages, promote the teaching reforms and strengthen the practice teaching to meet the
country’s economic and social development needs for the diverse multi-type shortage of talent [2].
3 The Positioning and Features of Profession Training
Professional training integrates the multi-disciplinary trends and increases the teaching content of power system and new energy,
accurately determines the direction of the discipline on the original basis of the motor and power electronics, control engineering
direction, realizes rational allocation of basic courses, professional foundation courses and elective proportion, increases the
proportion of practice teaching, optimizes curriculum system, strengthens experimental platform construction, builds the integrated
practice system including experimental curriculum, curriculum design, practice and other innovative practices, actively encourages
the tools and models of classroom teaching and practice teaching to improve active learning initiative. The modes of opening the
laboratory and participation in research activities and academic competitions promote students’ personality development and improve
engineering practice and innovative ability. Training objectives will train electrical engineers with wide caliber senior engineering
and technical personnel in various industrial fields of the manufacturing and electricity industry, who engage in the related to
electrical engineering including system operation, electrical engineering, automatic controlling, computer application technology,
power electronics and information processing technology and economic management. It also brings up the advanced talents to
service the multi- industrial fields of electrical manufacturing and electricity industries, who have solid theoretical basis, high
comprehensive quality, practical ability, innovative spirit and hard work qualities. They can solve the technical issues of motor
control, motion control and energy production or conversion, transmission, distribution control, protection, new energy development,
energy storage and electrical manufacturing. According to social needs and development needs of individual students, it will focus on
diversity training model, train technical personnel in the fields of project management, engineering studies, categories generalist
complex, multi-skill type and other engineering by the mainstream model of engineering and technology type. To rely on the science
and technology innovation bases is to strengthen the innovation spirit, practical ability, overall quality and focus on talent, innovation,
practice, comprehension and adaptability [3].
4 The Basic Measure of Specialty Construction
4.1 Constantly optimizing the training model
In recent years, according to Jiangsu Province the trends requirements of the socio-economic development and subject development,
school of electrical engineering constantly optimizes the professional orientation and ongoing training models, revises the electrical
engineering orientation, training objectives, training models and curriculum system. Necessary reforms have been carried out for
both curriculum structure and curriculum setting, and the practice teaching modules and innovation credits were increased. In order
to cultivate the students’ overall quality and innovation ability, school established the credit education system with the characteristics
of the times and local, which reflects the social development needs, so that the professional personnel training programs are more
rational and emphasizing students’ comprehensive quality and innovative practical ability. Curriculum system are optimized, training
model is improved, the modern science technology emerges the integrated and overall trend, liberal arts and science infiltrate, science
and engineering and management integrate, and disciplines cross. Under such circumstances, the students’ knowledge structure of
electrical engineering and automation teaches the general education for the purpose of the expertise, technology and ability. From the
basic requirements of electrical engineering and automation, the knowledge structure of personnel training not only has the reflecting
general education curriculum of natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, economics, management, foreign languages, computers
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and physical education, but also has the three knowledge system courses which reflects the disciplines characteristics of “electrical
Engineering” and the electrical combination of “strength and weak”. The optimization of the course system makes the students
receive basic training in electrical electronic and electrical system and information control technology and other aspects, they include
the expertise skills of electrical engineering and basic knowledge and skills of automation and information technology, the student
system concept is strong, the student basic knowledge is solid, the students have the strong sense of innovation and engineering
practice abilities, their professional faces are wide, the adaptabilities are strong, and they can meet the broad needs of the community.
Wider professional education constantly improves and optimizes the training model program according to the training objectives of
electrical engineering and automation and the purposes of improving the overall quality of people and the center of national electrical
engineering and automation professional training model innovation experimental area, concise the basis experiments and the basic
training of electronic technology and curriculum design and practice, and the professional integrated experiments and graduate
design and research practice to realize innovative training models, and establishes the open and integrated innovative experiments,
and strengthens students’ comprehensive quality training, improves the quality of personnel training, and reinforces the platform
construction of the electrical engineering discipline. School puts a lot of effort to accelerate the disciplines construction of electrical
engineering and automation and the related interdisciplinary disciplines platform according to the base of provincial experimental
teaching center of electrical and electronic infrastructure, college science technology innovation base projects to construct theory and
practice disciplines platform of key laboratories, and engineering training center, basic teaching experiment platform, open
laboratories, research practice base and achieve leapfrog development [4].
4.2 Strengthen curriculum and improve teaching quality
Teaching is the primary means of achieving training objectives; the course construction is an important part of teaching. In recent
years, the profession creates excellent courses and quality classes as breakthrough, intensifies course construction, improves the
quality of curriculum construction from whole, has built provincial excellent quality courses of AC drive system, circuit theory,
power electronics, DC drive system, computer control systems to share quality teaching resources, excellent teaching research,
realize demonstration, radiation, promote the development of curriculum construction, teaching reform and improve the teaching
quality through the construction of these courses. In order to ensure the experimental teaching system based on the core of the ability
training, the experimental teaching must combine theoretical teaching, and realize the different levels teaching according to the
experiment type and diversity integration, and seek the integrated design experiment out of proportion no less than 85%, and take
into account application- oriented and innovative research experimental development. In the experiment curriculum integration
process, the interdisciplinary restructuring of the discipline must be fully embodied to achieve the class optimization combination of
the theoretical courses and experimental course. With the continuous growth of students’ professional knowledge, practice content
realizes the continuous integration and perforation from basic to professional and from validation to design, from design to
integration and from comprehensive to innovation. Three stages of basic engineering capabilities training and the overall quality
exaltation and innovative ability culture train students’ practice ability, obtaining information ability and creative thinking skills.
4.3 Construction practice teaching system and practice platform
According to the characteristics of practice teaching, the teaching philosophy was established by existing foundation practice with
professional practice and combining basic skills training with innovation, strengthening the basic, ensuring the design and
emphasizing innovation. The main body of practice teaching is students, the quality reflects of practice teaching is also students,
because students’ individual differences exists, and they must be individualized by practice teaching to train students personality
development. Practice teaching is inseparable from the solid foundation of theoretical teaching, the ultimate goal of practice teaching
and theory teaching is engineering applications and practice innovation, the practice teaching mode must be established by the
student centered and project oriented practice, the combination of the theoretical teaching and practical teaching, and the combination
of innovative education and science technology competitions. The design ideas of practice teaching system is built by using the basic
concepts of teaching practice and following the principle of constructing practice teaching system and adopting the teaching system
of the structured hierarchical and modular content and curriculum series, to establish the practice teaching system based on the main
line of the student innovative spirit and ability, and collecting the goals, basic, level, systematic and practical into whole. Practice
teaching link is divided into four practice teaching module including experimental courses or training and internships or the
integrated design or innovation and entrepreneurship [5].
5 Training Effect
Teaching reform significantly improves the level and quality of classroom teaching, where teachers are lead into the research
achievement and research experience into the classroom to enrich the teaching content, make classroom teaching more lively and
improve the students’ interest in learning. Students have a good grasp of theoretical knowledge and effectively promote the
self-development, and these have made gratifying achievements. The students of electrical engineering and automation won a
number of national first-class, second and third prize in extracurricular academic science and technology work competition, the
national college of computer simulation smart car and province undergraduate electronic design contest and the national robot soccer
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championship group, and the students are to become the main force in the school teams. Three-dimensional multi-level practice
teaching system effectively enhances the practical ability and creative ability of the students, and the practice of multi-level content
exercise students’ comprehensive ability. Teachers guide students to develop learning plans and professional direction and elective
courses, instruct learning methods and optimize the learning process and the state. Teachers can be targeted for ideological guidance
and psychological counseling to effectively mitigate or eliminate the psychological barriers of students. The instructor system fully
reflects the teaching role of teachers and effectively promotes students’ overall healthy growth. Through years of training model
reform, the quality of the graduates has significantly improved, and the employability competitiveness significantly enhances. In the
job interview process, the good quality students gets recruiters recognition, student employment effect is good, the employer
assessment for the graduate is high, the overall assessment is good with overall quality and strong practical ability and innovative
spirit; In comprehensive reform of the personnel training mode, teaching reform has improved the teaching quality and level,
students’ learning and practical ability and project awareness to promote the overall growth of students’ health.
6 Conclusion
The profession focused on teaching reform and research, and highlighted the engineering education, and stressed practical ability and
commitment to personnel training mode reform and practice, has accumulated rich experience, and has also made a series of
achievements in reform. It need the deepening of reform and practice for school on how to closely combine professional universality
and school features with the local economic characteristics and cultivate a solid foundation, distinctive and innovative high-quality
electric talent, which will achieve the desired outcome of the construction.
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