Attachment: Identify the orientation of running a school relying on the advantages of the industry
The task, orientation and school-running thinking of each university will be determined according to the demand for talents in the local area, the level and the social development. At the beginning of the merger, the school party Committee and the administration used the opportunity of the merger to explore ideas from different levels, unify their understanding, and seek to maximize the benefits of the merger between the two schools. Therefore, based on the long-term background of transportation, electric power and water conservancy, we should fully integrate the high-quality resources of the two universities and position the development of the school as: based in Hunan and facing the whole country; Establish the central position of teaching work and vigorously carry out scientific research; Accelerate the development of postgraduate education with undergraduate education as the main body; Focusing on transportation, electric power, water conservancy and other industry disciplines, we will build a distinctive professional structure system and superior discipline groups, and strive to cultivate applied senior professionals with practical ability and innovative spirit. We will build the school into a multidisciplinary university with industry as the mainstay and coordinated development of engineering, science, management, economics, literature and law, realize the transformation from a teaching-oriented university to a teaching-research university and reach the advanced level of local universities in China. In 2007, I accepted the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education and got an "excellent" evaluation conclusion.
Actively adapt to social needs
Reform the talent training mode
According to the general requirements of undergraduate talent training with "thick foundation, wide caliber, strong ability and high quality" and the needs of economic and social development, the school has built a flexible talent training system with "basic platform+professional (direction) module".
1. Students-oriented and diversified personnel training.
Starting from reality, the school focuses on the training of applied talents, combines mass education with talent education, takes mass education as the main body and pays attention to the diversification of talent training. The first is the diversification of training objectives. Different majors in the school have different training objectives, even the same major has different training objectives for different individuals. It not only trains advanced applied professionals for economic and social development, but also trains high-quality comprehensive talents with leading qualities for related industries, so that each student can fully develop his personality and development potential and meet the diverse needs of students' development. Therefore, the school offers "minor" and "double bachelor", and organizes classes for students on weekends and holidays to meet the diverse needs of students; The second is the diversification of professional education. Break the rigid structure of the original professional education system and set the professional direction flexibly; Create conditions for potential students to have the opportunity to choose their own majors during their studies at school; Third, the training methods are diversified. Carry out research teaching and inquiry learning, and advocate the teaching methods of "problem-centered", "interaction" and "discussion"; Public courses are taught at different levels to fully consider students' individual differences and provide them with the most convenient and superior learning conditions; Adhere to the principle of combining professional education with humanistic education and combining in-class and out-of-class education, and strive to improve students' comprehensive quality and sustainable competitiveness.
2. Actively adapt to social needs and scientifically design talent training programs.
The first is the training scheme of scientific design professionals. On the basis of general education, the school implements professional (professional direction) education and constructs a "handless comb" curriculum system, that is, the basic courses are constructed according to major categories, and on this basis, several professional or professional direction curriculum modules are set up, so that students not only have a rich foundation, but also have more profound and systematic knowledge in a certain field (professional or professional direction) (students have an inverted T-shaped knowledge and ability structure). For majors with professional certification or evaluation requirements, relevant courses are required to be offered according to the requirements of professional certification or evaluation.
The second is to invite employers to participate in the talent training process. Actively consult employers such as enterprises and scientific research institutes on the requirements of personnel training, invite them to participate in the formulation, evaluation and process of personnel training programs, listen carefully to their opinions and suggestions, and integrate them into the personnel training programs in time. .
3. Seek a breakthrough and actively carry out the pilot reform of "training outstanding talents"
In order to actively adapt to the needs of industry and local economic construction and development, and cultivate a group of high-quality applied professionals and top-notch innovative talents, the school actively carried out the pilot work of "Excellent Talents Training Plan" for applied disciplines in combination with its own advantages and characteristics. The pilot work of "Excellent Talents Training Plan" was organized and implemented in the form of experimental classes, starting from grade 20 10. First, carry out pilot work in the dominant disciplines of the school, jointly implement the "excellent talent training plan" with enterprises with cooperative foundation, and carry out the work of cultivating excellent talents jointly by schools and enterprises.
4. Broaden the vision of personnel training and realize the leap-forward development of international students' education.
The school actively explores the enrollment and training mode of international students, and cooperates with enterprises to form an organizational system to train international students with bachelor's degree. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, more than 50 students from Angola, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea and other countries were accepted/kloc-0, and five majors of international student education have been held, and international student education has developed by leaps and bounds from zero to zero. At the same time, the school has established cooperative relations with 25 universities in the United States, Britain, Russia and other 15 countries and regions. During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, a total of 139 college students were sent to study or practice abroad, and a total of10/0 foreign or overseas college students were accepted for short-term study or practice. In recent years, the proportion of graduates from this school entering foreign-funded enterprises and overseas enterprises has steadily increased, and some graduates have been sent abroad by employers within a short time after taking part in work.
Starting with quality engineering
Strengthen the construction of teaching connotation
In 2007, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance officially launched the "Quality Project" for undergraduate teaching in colleges and universities. Taking this opportunity, the school keeps up with the pace of social development, and further clarifies the requirements of "focusing on curriculum construction, improving the level of specialty construction, and earnestly strengthening the connotation construction of quality engineering" according to the needs of transformation and development, which has created good conditions for school teaching construction and reform.
1. Optimize the professional structure, strengthen the construction of characteristics, and improve the level of running a professional school.
On the basis of careful analysis of the overall situation of specialty construction, the school put forward the basic ideas of specialty construction: stabilizing the specialty scale, optimizing the specialty structure, strengthening the connotation construction, highlighting the specialty characteristics, shortening the specialty gap and improving the overall level; Adhere to students as the main body and teachers as the leading factor, optimize personnel training programs, pay attention to quality education, solidly promote the reform of basic courses and practical teaching, and strive to improve students' innovation and practical ability. According to this idea, the professional construction has been further strengthened.
First, adapt to social needs and optimize the discipline structure. The school has long served the national basic industries such as transportation, electric power and water conservancy, and has formed its own characteristics and advantages in the discipline structure. These dominant disciplines play a backbone and leading role in the discipline structure. Facing the new situation of economic and social development, the school optimizes and adjusts the discipline structure in time. In the 11th Five-Year Plan, we have always adhered to the discipline construction policy based on arts and sciences, with engineering as the main body, transportation, electric power, water conservancy and other characteristic disciplines as the main body, and information, biology, materials and environment as the new growth points, and further improved the discipline construction policy of engineering, science, management, economics, literature and law.
Second, relying on the advantages of disciplines to build a brand specialty. While optimizing the specialty structure and adjusting the specialty layout, the school actively implements the strategy of building brand specialty and characteristic specialty. The school's key disciplines such as civil engineering, port waterway and coastal engineering, electrical engineering and its automation, thermal energy and power engineering, accounting and automobile service engineering are supported by the corresponding engineering research center of the Ministry of Education, provincial key disciplines, provincial key laboratories and doctoral programs. At present, the school has 9 national-level specialty, 265,438+0 provincial-level specialty and 65,438+08 school-level specialty. Brand specialty construction has not only formed a number of undergraduate majors with comparative advantages and social influence, but also played a good demonstration and leading role in improving the level of specialty construction and the quality of undergraduate teaching.
The third is to strengthen the construction of new majors and ensure the quality of personnel training. The school insists on relying on majors and disciplines, and transforms the original discipline construction and achievements of specialty construction into the resources for running new majors. Since the merger in 2003, the school has only added four majors, focused on the construction of new majors, increased investment in the construction of new majors, and adjusted, merged or cancelled a few majors that did not meet the needs of economic and social development.
The fourth is to promote the reform of engineering education by means of professional certification and evaluation. In recent years, graduates of Changsha University of Science and Technology have more and more opportunities to participate in transnational engineering business. The school has formulated a professional evaluation and certification plan for engineering education, strengthened exchanges with professional steering committees and industry engineers' associations, organized education and teaching activities in accordance with the courses and requirements recognized by engineering education evaluation and certification institutions, and steadily promoted the reform of engineering education. In 2009, two undergraduate majors, transportation and civil engineering, successfully passed the certification and evaluation of engineering majors of the Ministry of Education.
2. Establish a sense of quality products, strengthen connotation construction, and strive to improve the teaching quality of the course.
According to the construction concept of curriculum connotation construction as the core, teaching staff construction as the key and concept renewal as the key, the school puts forward the basic ideas of curriculum construction: optimizing curriculum structure and deepening the reform of curriculum teaching content; Building a high-level teacher team with courses or courses as a unit; Renew educational concepts, reform course teaching methods and promote research-based teaching.
First, optimize the curriculum structure, deepen the reform of teaching content and strengthen the construction of curriculum connotation. Optimize the curriculum structure and build a curriculum system that combines core courses with elective courses, is conducive to cross-disciplinary integration and adapts to economic and social development. Basic courses are set according to the requirements of helping students form a broad knowledge base and sustainable development ability and improve their comprehensive quality; Specialized courses build a modular curriculum group according to the major or professional direction, integrate the teaching content, and constantly update the teaching content according to the requirements of scientific and technological development and social and economic development. Pay attention to cultivating students' methods of acquiring knowledge, ability of solving problems and spirit of daring to question and explore.
The second is to build a high-level teacher team based on courses or curriculum groups. Teachers are the builders and implementers of courses, and having a high-level team of teachers is the external core element of forming high-quality courses. Changsha University of Science and Technology has long attached importance to giving full play to the main role of professors and associate professors in teaching reform, and regards teaching for undergraduates as the basic requirement for the assessment of professors and associate professors. A relatively perfect teaching assistant system for young teachers has been established, and the educational and teaching ability of young teachers has been continuously improved. Strengthen the training of young teachers, support young teachers to cooperate in Industry-University-Research in enterprises and institutions, participate in domestic and foreign advanced studies and academic conferences, exchange experiences with other university teachers, and improve the quality and level of young teachers. Strengthen the construction of teaching team, according to the needs of teaching reform and teaching tasks, build a teaching team led by professors with high teaching level and profound academic attainments, composed of professors, associate professors, lecturers, teaching assistants and teaching assistants, establish an effective team cooperation mechanism, promote the reform and research of teaching content and methods, promote teaching discussion and exchange of teaching experience, develop teaching resources, and promote the combination of teaching work and young people.
The third is to update educational concepts, reform teaching methods and promote research-based teaching. The school actively adapts to the educational requirements of innovative talents under the knowledge economy in the 2 1 century, establishes a diversified and multi-level new educational concept to meet the needs of a learning society from both teaching and learning, and reforms teaching mode, curriculum system, teaching content, teaching means and methods, and learning strategies and methods. First, establish a school-level teaching resource database. According to the classification of disciplines and specialties, a high-quality curriculum resource base with excellent courses as the main body, a teaching case base with typical cases as the main body and a multimedia teaching courseware base with knowledge points as the unit are established to provide examples for teachers' teaching activities and provide resources and materials for teachers to compile teaching plans. Widely use information technology in teaching activities, constantly promote the sharing and co-construction of teaching resources, and gradually realize the networking and digitalization of teaching and management; Secondly, carry out professional training for young teachers with classroom teaching design as the main content. In recent years, the school has carried out a series of training for young teachers on the application of modern educational technology and classroom teaching design to help them improve their teaching ability and level. Third, vigorously promote the reform of teaching methods and actively carry out research-based teaching. Taking information technology as an important means to improve teaching quality, using computer network to expand classroom teaching in time and space, and carry out research-based teaching with teacher-student interaction. Excellent courses at all levels take the lead in carrying out research-based teaching experiments and become a model for the reform of research-based teaching mode.
At present, Changsha University of Science and Technology has basically established a three-level excellent course system. At present, the school has 3 national excellent courses, 9 provincial excellent courses/kloc-0 and 94 school-level excellent courses. At the same time, through the introduction and self-construction, a number of high-quality teaching resources have been built, creating good conditions for teachers and students to teach and learn.
Fourth, encourage students to participate in academic competitions and cultivate their innovative and practical abilities. The school has newly built five innovative platforms for college students, such as electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical design, mathematical modeling, energy saving and emission reduction, and design art, and increased funding, effectively mobilizing the enthusiasm of teachers and students. Most colleges and universities organize and carry out academic competitions for college students according to their own professional characteristics. The students are enthusiastic about participating in the competition and have achieved remarkable results. During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, undergraduates won 34 national discipline competitions and "Challenge Cup" competitions, including 6 national first prizes and above; There are 400 provincial discipline competitions and "Challenge Cup" competitions, including 62 provincial first-class and above prizes; The number of awards is ahead of similar universities in the province. The achievement of the above-mentioned competition results reflects from one aspect that the students in this school have high innovation ability and practical ability.
During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period, the school won 4 national teaching achievement awards and 29 provincial teaching achievement awards. Obtained 51of teaching and research reform at or above the provincial and ministerial level; Approved to set up 1 experimental area, 2 teaching teams, 2 experimental teaching demonstration centers and 19 planning teaching materials. Moreover, as a provincial university, the school has become a pilot unit of research-based learning and innovative experimental projects for college students nationwide, providing a broader platform for students to participate in innovative experimental projects.
Strengthen practical teaching
Cast the characteristics of running a school
In the long-term course of running a school, Changsha University of Science and Technology has strengthened the construction of practice teaching base, reformed the practice teaching system, innovated the practice teaching mode, effectively guaranteed the quality of practice teaching, systematically constructed the practice teaching and management system, and paid attention to cultivating and improving students' innovative practice ability, which has achieved remarkable results in improving the quality of personnel training.
1. Broaden channels and build practice teaching bases from a high starting point.
Taking the "quality project" as an opportunity, the school selected and built a number of practical teaching bases with good basic conditions and wide radiation, which greatly improved the conditions of practical teaching in our school. First, increase investment, integrate resources, and build a practical teaching base on campus from a high starting point. Through self-financing, joint construction by the central and local governments, allocation by the Ministry of Communications, and donation by the director, 654.38+0.7 billion yuan was raised, and a number of practical teaching bases in schools were built from a high starting point. The second is to build a high-level off-campus practice teaching base with cooperation as the link and mutual benefit as the purpose. Signed long-term agreements with Hunan Luqiao Group, Hunan Electric Power Company, Hunan Telecom Industry Group Co., Ltd. and other large and medium-sized enterprises 189, and built a number of high-level and multifunctional practical teaching bases; Third, with the help of network and modern computer technology, develop and build a virtual practice teaching platform in the school. At present, more than 20 virtual practice teaching platforms with obvious engineering background have been developed and established, such as road and bridge survey, design and construction, power production and transmission, waterway development and regulation, and urban sewage treatment, which have enhanced students' perceptual knowledge and systematic understanding of engineering practice and promoted inquiry learning and the cultivation of students' innovative consciousness. The fourth is to set up special funds, formulate incentive policies and promote the construction of practical teaching bases. The school conducts an annual review of excellent practice bases at the school level, and selects a number of practice teaching bases with good basic conditions and wide radiation. There are 20 provincial excellent practice bases and 2 1 school excellent practice bases.
2. Renew ideas and build a high-standard practical teaching system.
Based on the concept of modern engineering education, the school has constructed a practical teaching system of "three levels, four modules and three combinations". The main practical teaching links such as experiment, practice and design (4-5 courses design and graduation design for each major) are systematically designed according to three levels: basic training, improved training and comprehensive training; The content of practical teaching is divided into four modules: experiment, practice, design (thesis) and extracurricular practice. Practice teaching is organized by combining in-class and out-of-class, in-school and out-of-school, and the first class and the second class, which improves students' engineering practice ability. The school insists on setting up experimental courses independently and optimizing the content system of practical teaching, which changes the situation that experimental teaching is attached to theoretical teaching in the past, integrates and optimizes the experimental teaching content, and requires each science and engineering major to set up at least three independent comprehensive experimental courses. The laboratory is managed in an open way. Students can choose their own experimental time, design their own experimental scheme, or bring their own experimental topics, which effectively mobilizes the enthusiasm of students to participate in the experiment. Strengthen design practice teaching and form a four-year continuous engineering design education system. The design contents scattered in various courses are integrated to supplement the necessary new design courses, so that students can get systematic training in engineering practice.
3. Innovative mode to cultivate high-quality students' practical ability.
Through years of reform practice, Changsha University of Science and Technology has explored an engineering education model with school characteristics of "engineering basic training+engineering innovation training+big engineering consciousness training". First, strengthen basic engineering training based on the practice teaching base in the school. According to the principles of standardization, advancement, simulation and comprehensiveness, a number of advanced practice teaching bases with engineering background have been designed and built. Students carry out experiments, internships and training on these practical teaching platforms with engineering background and high fidelity, and their practical operation ability and engineering awareness have been greatly improved, and good training results have been achieved. The second is to carry out engineering innovation training by relying on professional laboratories. The selection and funding mechanism of innovative experimental projects for college students, provincial college students and national college students has been established to promote the in-depth development of students' professional skills and improve their awareness and ability of engineering innovation. In the past three years, the school has set up 26/kloc-0 experimental projects for college students' research learning and innovation, including 50 national projects and 42 provincial projects. Third, vigorously promote the integration of Industry-University-Research. In the past three years, the school has set up 900 "Industry-University-Research" scientific and technological development projects for college students. In order to better promote the integration of Industry-University-Research, in 2007, the school established the Office for Promoting Industry-University-Research Cooperation to co-ordinate the integration of Industry-University-Research in the whole school. According to the idea of "relying on off-campus practice teaching base, serving local economic construction and development", the school has carried out the integration of Industry-University-Research, further promoting the benign interaction between personnel training and social services.
4. Strengthen management and establish a high-standard practical teaching quality assurance system.
In the process of practical teaching management, Changsha University of Science and Technology pays attention to five aspects. First, the practical teaching management documents that meet the needs of the development of the situation have been formulated, and the quality standards of practical teaching have been clarified. At the same time, the basic teaching documents such as experiment, practice teaching outline, curriculum design and graduation design (thesis) outline have been formulated, which ensures the standardization and order of practice teaching. The second is to give full play to students' dominant position in the process of practical teaching, and fully mobilize and give play to students' enthusiasm. Let students take the initiative to participate in the topic selection and study place selection of concentrated practice, make their own study plan and implementation plan, and participate in the evaluation of practical learning effect. The third is to give play to the leading role of teachers in the process of practical teaching, and strengthen the whole process control of practical teaching through practical planning, organization, coordination, encouragement and evaluation. Fourthly, establish the guarantee mechanism of practical teaching funds and implement the target management system of practical teaching funds to ensure the smooth and effective development of practical teaching. Fifth, innovate the evaluation mechanism of practical teaching and encourage students to innovate boldly in engineering practice. Adhere to the two-level supervision and inspection system of colleges and universities, establish a stable and effective practical teaching quality monitoring operation mechanism and practical teaching work target management system, establish flexible and diverse evaluation methods for students' learning effect, and adopt incentive policies for students who have outstanding performance in engineering practice, effectively encouraging students to make bold innovations in engineering practice.
Standardize teaching management
Ensure teaching input
First, school leaders attach great importance to the implementation of teaching status. School leaders take the lead in changing the concept of education and teaching, and clearly stipulate that the party and government leaders of schools and colleges are the first responsible persons for the teaching quality of schools and colleges (departments). We have formulated relevant systems such as research and teaching work of party and government leading bodies, contact with colleges (departments) and functional offices, attending classes, field research and work. At the same time, school leaders take the lead in carrying out education and teaching research, which not only ensures the central position of undergraduate teaching, but also correctly handles the relationship between teaching and other work.
The second is to strengthen system construction and standardize teaching management. Through the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level, the management system of "scrapping, reforming and establishing" is sorted out to make the school teaching management system more scientific, rigorous, sound and standardized. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the school cleaned up and integrated all the teaching management documents, and established 8 1 management systems, including educational administration, examination, student status management, practical teaching, quality monitoring and evaluation, which became the normative documents for the school to manage teaching and standardize teaching behavior. Further rationalized the two-level teaching and laboratory management system, defined the management authority and responsibility at all levels, and made the school teaching management more standardized. A new educational administration information system has been developed, which realizes online course selection, grade registration and inquiry, online transmission of teaching data, electronic management of grades and school status, and online electronic registration of students in academic year, further improving management efficiency.
The third is to constantly improve the incentive mechanism and improve the teaching level of teachers. The school has set up a series of teaching awards such as "School-level Teaching Master Award", "Classroom Teaching Excellence Award", "Teaching Achievement Award" and "Young Teachers' Teaching Excellence Award" to select "Excellent Teaching Department" and "Excellent Laboratory" every year to commend teachers and collectives who have made outstanding achievements in undergraduate teaching. In this school, two teachers won the national prize of teaching master, three won the honor of provincial teaching master, and 10 young teachers won the provincial prize of teaching expert.
The fourth is to build a network teaching resource platform to realize high-quality resource sharing. At present, the school has built excellent courses, online classrooms, practical teaching, educational technology training and other online teaching resource platforms. , and provided 170 teaching courseware, 36,287 minutes of teaching audio and video, 1500 teaching pictures and other on-demand and download services on the Internet, and built 8 practical teaching websites. A variety of book databases and digital resource database systems have been established, which has improved the service level and quality of graphic materials. At the same time, a comprehensive teaching management system integrating teaching plan management, students' course selection, examination management, grade management, postgraduate qualification examination, class resumption arrangement and online teaching evaluation has been established, which further improves the level and quality of teaching management.
The fifth is to ensure the investment of teaching funds and obviously improve the teaching conditions. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the school invested about 654.38+300 million yuan in teaching and research instruments and equipment, and the per capita practical teaching funds reached 320 yuan/year. At present, the total value of teaching and research equipment is 270 million yuan, the laboratory building area is more than 200,000 square meters, and 6,038 computers are added. Add 10 1 multimedia classrooms, bringing the total number of multimedia classrooms to 146 and the number of seats to more than 20,000; Build six provincial demonstration experiment centers (rooms) and four innovation platform bases for college students; The experimental teaching conditions have been significantly improved, and the experimental opening rate of course teaching has reached 98%, and innovative, designed and comprehensive experimental projects account for 58% of experimental projects; There are 78 new practice bases inside and outside the school, including 20 provincial excellent practice bases, which are among the best in provincial universities and basically meet the practice needs of students of various majors.
"Riding the wind and waves will lead my dark clouds to sail straight up and build a bridge on the deep sea". Long-term construction, especially the rapid development in the 11th Five-Year Plan, has put Changsha University of Science and Technology on a new starting line. The state attaches great importance to education and culture, which gives the school new development opportunities. Therefore, the school should assess the situation and put forward the development goal of building a high-level teaching and research university with distinctive characteristics in time. Further optimize the talent training mode, strengthen the connotation construction of "quality engineering", deepen the reform of basic courses and practical teaching, strengthen teaching management, highlight the characteristics with quality, and cultivate talents to create greater glories.