Sun Yat-sen University regards the construction of software college as an important strategic step in the construction of personnel training system in the computer field. In view of the present situation of the software industry in the Pan-Pearl River Delta region that "ordinary talents are easy to find, but senior talents are hard to find", Sun Yat-sen University's goal is to cultivate senior applied talents in the IT industry, that is, to cultivate high-level, applied, compound and internationalized high-quality software talents, which can meet the development needs of China's software industry and meet the needs of international software talents.
Based on this policy, the school makes full use of the advantages of Sun Yat-sen University's comprehensive university, fully meets the teaching needs of the School of Software Engineering with the help of the multi-disciplinary conditions of the school, and provides strong support for training software engineering talents and cultivating compound talents.
While doing a good job in undergraduate and postgraduate education of software engineering, Software College actively provides personnel training services for the development of local software industry and actively explores new modes of software personnel training. Guangzhou listed the development of software industry as the key development field during the 11th Five-Year Plan period. The municipal government set up the "software industry development leading office", which is directly led by the deputy mayor in charge, and set up special funds for software talent training. The Institute of Software seized this opportunity in line with its own development direction, actively cooperated with the Guangzhou Municipal Government, and established the "Software Talent Training Center of Sun Yat-sen University" to cooperate with the government's various talent training plans, especially the implementation of the middle and senior software talent training plan. This cooperation has strengthened the relationship between the college and the talent demand unit. Through this window, the college can better and faster understand the social demand for the knowledge structure of advanced applied talents and adjust the teaching system in time. At present, the College is exploring deeper cooperation with the Guangzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, establishing a comprehensive co-construction relationship with local governments, organically combining academic education with non-academic education, and actively exploring the construction of the "course+practice" curriculum system.
2. Establish a software factory and carry out in-depth school-enterprise cooperation.
Training high-end engineering-oriented software talents is inseparable from practice. However, at present, domestic software enterprises and domestic environment have not yet formed a culture of accepting students' internships and providing an effective practice platform for students at school. In order to solve this problem, the School of Software of Sun Yat-sen University used the model of the affiliated hospital of medical college for reference, and in March 2006, Zhong Da University Software Factory was established in collaboration with Guangdong Telecom Engineering Company and Guangdong South Coast Technology Co., Ltd..
Introducing industry experience in the mode of software factory allows students to get close contact with cutting-edge technologies and solve practical problems in the whole learning process, and is influenced by corporate culture in a subtle way to temper their comprehensive quality, which is one of the important training characteristics of the School of Software, Sun Yat-sen University.
The establishment of the software factory has set up a platform for communication and dialogue between schools and enterprises, laid a good foundation for further integration of Industry-University-Research, provided an important platform for undergraduate and graduate students of software college to practice in school, and built a bridge from theory to practice and from practice to theory for students. Students can consolidate and master the theories and methods in textbooks in practical software engineering projects; On the other hand, the problems encountered in the actual project are returned to the classroom and books to find the answers, which enhances the interest in learning.
In addition to serving as a practical platform for students of the School of Software, the software factory also has the following functions: First, it undertakes software development projects and conducts independent product research and development. On the one hand, provide students with opportunities to participate in practical projects; On the other hand, it also promotes the development of the software factory itself. Second, as a window for teachers and students to transform and incubate scientific and technological achievements; Third, provide certain conditions and corresponding platforms for students to start their own businesses.
Foreign cooperation and independent research and development of software factories. Most software factories are managed and operated according to the modern enterprise management system. We have cooperated extensively with many IT companies and undertaken the development of projects directly under the Customs early warning system, SAVL vehicle automatic monitoring system, embedded teaching experiment platform, No.7 signaling gateway, and dispatching system of oil companies, which provided good practical environment and conditions for students. In the project development, the senior software engineer in the software factory provides guidance for undergraduates and graduate students, and the coding and testing work is basically completed by students. Some students have participated in the development of 2-3 projects, and some students have been able to carry out system analysis and design. It can be seen that students should not only have professional theoretical knowledge, but also combine practical ability.
Students tempered by the software factory project have made great progress in their studies, enhanced their employment advantages and competitiveness, and have been welcomed by employers. In the future, the college will continue to follow the teaching and training mode of medical college and further organically combine the teaching process with practice.
The college is also going to use the platform of software factory to collect the problems of internationally renowned enterprises and guide students to carry out extracurricular scientific and technological activities in combination with these problems. The purpose of doing this is to further improve the practical ability of college students in software engineering and improve the quality of training software talents.
CUHK software factory is also an important window for universities and markets. Teachers of the college can take the scientific research results to the software factory of CUHK for transformation and incubation, and then push them to the market to create benefits. CUHK Software Factory invested 800,000 yuan in the Software College to set up a student virtual venture fund, which was jointly managed by the Software College and the Software Factory, and was used to fund the student team to start a virtual venture within the Software Factory. Under the organization of the college, students of the software college can apply for virtual venture capital from the software factory. The funded projects include: video surveillance system based on 2.75G, with a funding amount of 6.5438+0.5 million yuan. The entrepreneurial team consists of 7 people, all of whom are undergraduates from the School of Software Engineering. The operation and management of virtual venture capital refers to the management mode of venture capital. When the entrepreneurial project hatches to a certain stage, it is separated from the software factory and a separate startup company is established to operate the project.
The College has also signed cooperation agreements with multinational companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, SUN, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco, and established long-term cooperative relations. Signed cooperation agreements with dozens of well-known IT companies such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, TCL Industrial Research Institute and Shenzhen Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., and carried out extensive cooperation with these companies in joint laboratories, student graduation internships, joint project research and employment training.
3. Introduce industry experience and cultivate research-oriented and innovative high-end software engineering talents.
Offering compulsory training courses for all undergraduates majoring in software engineering on campus is the second important feature of talent training in the School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University.
To this end, the school has specially built a software engineering training base with a total investment of more than 3 million yuan. Students in the School of Software of Sun Yat-sen University have the following two characteristics: First, they have a high starting point and a wide range of employment. The employment destination of students is not limited to IT industry; Second, the students of Sun Yat-sen University have the vision and potential to become team technical and management leaders. Therefore, the practice teaching of software engineering in colleges and universities is different from the vocational training of general software enterprises. It not only pays attention to the training of specific computer system technology and domain knowledge, but also pays attention to cultivating students' healthy personality, independent innovation spirit, teamwork spirit and excellent professional quality. Therefore, practice teaching adopts the mode of combining enterprise management with autonomous learning organization.
The college revised and improved the undergraduate teaching plan and training scheme of software engineering, and listed "software engineering training" as a compulsory course for undergraduates, and conducted training at three levels. During the advanced training, the trainees completed a complete software project development under the leadership of the training tutor group. Teaching and practice of adding important knowledge points in project implementation. Training and teaching simulate the management mode of the company. The instructor is the director of the training program, and all the roles of the project team, such as PM, SCM, SQA, DBA and TS, are held by the participating students. Therefore, the college and software factory have formulated a set of practical teaching curriculum system, including practical teaching syllabus, teaching plan, management system, software engineering training process specification, training case base, performance evaluation method, evaluation method, reward and punishment method, etc. In 2007-2009, 1500 undergraduates in 2004 and 2005 were trained, which achieved good results and was recognized by most students. On this basis, the college initially summed up a set of training programs to train innovative software engineering talents in research universities.
4. Actively carry out the second classroom activities and highlight the cultivation of innovative ability.
Using the second classroom to organize students to carry out scientific and technological innovation activities and cultivate students' innovative ability and engineering practice ability from another angle is another feature of talent training in CUHK Software College.
The school has set up a laboratory for students' entrepreneurship and technological innovation activities in the School of Software. The college allocated special funds and sent instructors, forming an atmosphere of academic and scientific research activities with students as the main body and students actively participating. In embedded software, electronic tags, information appliances, online games and other aspects, a student research team was formed. Many of his works have participated in the "Creative Fund" of Sun Yat-sen University and the "Challenge" Cup for National College Students. The achievements have been involved in many application fields such as music kingdom portal, network encryption transmission system, electronic game map editing engine, naked-eye visual three-dimensional display and so on.
The college also makes full use of all kinds of competitions and exchange opportunities inside and outside the school to train students, and holds the "Software Innovation Design Competition" every year. In 2007, it hosted the IBM China University Student Programming Competition (South China Division) and other competitions, and actively organized students to participate in various competitions. He has successively won 6 provincial prizes in ACM International Programming Contest for College Students, Mathematical Modeling Contest 1, 7 provincial prizes in Challenge Cup Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Contest and College Students' Entrepreneurship Contest, and Kingdee Cup National College Students' Enterprise Simulation and Practice Contest 1. In recent two years, 10 undergraduate projects have been funded by the Undergraduate Research Fund of the university, and the "Three-dimensional Digital Library of Sun Yat-sen University" has also been awarded.
College students are full of energy and have strong engineering practice ability. After several years of practice, many students have achieved good results in high-level subject competitions and comprehensive ability competitions, and at the same time, they have expanded the influence of the college in society. The Blackstone team composed of college students won the first prize of themoon in the 2006 "IBM Cup" SOA Application Competition for China College Students, and won a prize of 65,438+10,000 yuan. And p &；; Team T won the championship in Greater China in the final of the 2008 "IBM Cup" national college students' SOA business process modeling competition, and successfully won the "IBM Cup". In addition, he also won other scientific and technological awards, such as the 2007 Apple Global Outstanding Student Scholarship, the first prize of the Guangdong Challenge Cup Extracurricular Thesis Competition, the second prize of the Guangdong Challenge Cup Extracurricular Academic and Scientific Works Competition, and the third prize of the Citi Cup Science and Technology Application Competition Finals.
In promoting informatization in mountainous areas, college students actively participated in the social practice activities of "going to the countryside" and served local informatization, assisted Meijiang District of Meizhou City, a remote mountainous area, to complete the investigation and planning of "Meijiang, China" government website construction and informatization construction in mountainous areas, and completed the manuscript of "Implementing Scientific Outlook on Development and Promoting Informatization in Mountainous Areas-Practice and Exploration of Informatization in Meijiang District of Meizhou City" with more than 50,000 words. This practice also established the "Social Practice Base for College Students of School of Software, Sun Yat-sen University", formally established the cooperation mode between the government and the school, and provided a platform for students to serve local economic development and participate in the construction of new socialist countryside.
5. Establish a software talent training center to serve the local economy.
Serving the local economy is also one of the characteristics of the Software College of Sun Yat-sen University.
The Guangzhou Municipal Government attaches great importance to the software industry, and Mayor Zhang Guangning proposed that "the software industry should be grasped like the automobile industry". In 2006, the Guangzhou Municipal Government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Software Industry", put forward the development strategy of software talents in Guangzhou, and pointed out that it is necessary to "cultivate and train applied software talents on a large scale" and "establish a 1-2 large-scale demonstration software talent training base". It is planned to rely on Sun Yat-sen University and other institutions of higher learning to cultivate and train applied software and animation talents on a large scale.
The Software College actively responded to the call of the Guangzhou Municipal Government, made suggestions for the training of software talents in Guangzhou, sent backbone teachers to participate in the research and formulation of relevant software industry policies in Guangzhou, and established the "Software Talents Training Center of Sun Yat-sen University" in June 5438+ 10, 2007, which is dedicated to training a large number of applied software talents for Guangzhou and serving the local economic construction. It is also the window for the College to face the government. The School of Software of Sun Yat-sen University has made a plan for Guangzhou to train middle and senior software technology and management talents. According to its own characteristics, it mainly undertakes the tasks of training senior software technology and management talents, teacher training, training in the training of low-end software talents and the construction of training curriculum system.
Now the college has undertaken the task of training software teachers for Guangzhou municipal universities, and has enrolled two groups of students so far. Cooperation with foreign universities and enterprises to cultivate high-level software talents is also under way. Through this cooperation, Guangzhou has obtained high-end technical talents and management talents urgently needed for the development of local software industry. Software College has not only obtained certain financial support, but also strengthened the cooperative relationship with local talent demand units and better understood their needs, which is conducive to promoting various teaching reforms, especially the construction of practice-oriented curriculum system. Moreover, through such social service activities, the social influence of the Institute of Software has been expanded and the reputation of the Institute has been improved.
6. Join hands with foreign universities and multinational enterprises to cultivate international talents.
In order to truly benefit students from international cooperation, the college has made long-term exploration. Now the college has started cooperation and exchanges with famous foreign universities and enterprises. Up to now, the cooperation between the college and foreign universities is progressing smoothly. It has signed a 2+2 undergraduate cooperation framework agreement with Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States, and signed a 2+2 undergraduate cooperation training agreement with Birmingham University in the United Kingdom, Leuven Institute of Technology in Belgium and Queensland University in Australia. Since 2007, students have been studying in foreign universities for two years.
The College actively participated in the "Long Xing Project" which was attended by well-known overseas scholars and aimed at improving the teaching level of domestic graduate students. The initiator of "Long Xing Plan" is American A & amp； From June 5438 to February 2004, Professor Zhao Wei, Vice President of M University, visited Sun Yat-sen University to implement the "Long Xing Plan" cooperation. Since then, the college has undertaken the American postgraduate courses "Advanced Graphics and Visualization" and "Data Mining" of the "Long Xing Project" for two consecutive years, which were taught by Dr. Qin Hong from the State University of new york at Si Tong Brook and Dr. Pei Jian from Simon Fraser University respectively.
The cooperation between our college and many well-known IT companies has also made a lot of progress: for example, in June 2009, 1 1, Dr. Ling Brown, a senior engineer and scientist in the software department of IBM Company of the United States, came to our college to offer an elective course Advanced E-commerce Engineering for undergraduates; In June, 2006, 165438+ 10, Microsoft sent a senior engineer to offer the course "Microsoft Production Technology" for graduate students in our college. From June 5438 to October 2007 10, IBM sent senior engineers to teach the postgraduate course "service-oriented software engineering". Established 8 joint laboratories with 6 well-known IT companies such as Intel and IBM. The establishment of these laboratories is a good start for the internationalization of the college and the deep cooperation between schools and enterprises.
7. Establish a high-end overpass training mode to cultivate compound talents.
Give full play to the advantages of Sun Yat-sen University's comprehensive university, and implement the "professional high-end overpass" mode from the undergraduate students of grade 2004: cooperate with the School of Communication and Design to build the direction of "digital media technology"; Cooperate with communication engineering specialty of electronic department to build the direction of "communication software"
In the training scheme of master of software engineering, this high-end overpass training mode is also an important training feature of CUHK Software College. The Institute of Software unites all the departments that train engineering masters, integrates all the resources for training engineering masters, and establishes the "8ME" consortium, aiming at bringing together eight departments with engineering master training programs, including the School of Management and the School of Software of Sun Yat-sen University, and cooperating in teaching and research, external promotion, and the "8ME" forum. And make use of the advantages of each major to achieve complementary advantages and common development, and jointly cultivate and bring up interdisciplinary, market-demanding and harmonious.
8. Cooperate with the industry to run schools and implement "order-based" talent training.
In accordance with the relevant requirements of the Ministry of Education and the school, the college has always actively promoted the reform of the school-running mechanism, put forward the concept of running schools in cooperation with enterprises, and cooperated with the industry to cultivate urgently needed talents with industry characteristics for the society. Under the curriculum system of software engineering specialty, according to the characteristics and requirements of the industry, the teaching plan is set up and the "order-based" training is implemented. For example, the College cooperated with the Health Department of Guangdong Province to set up the Guangdong Health System Industry Class, so as to cultivate the software talents urgently needed by the health industry, and added courses such as "Health Information Management" and "Introduction to Hospital Information" to the teaching plan. In 2007-2008, entrusted by the Guangzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Guangzhou municipal college teachers' classes were opened, and corresponding courses were added according to the specific conditions of the teachers' classes.
9, pay attention to quality training, all-round development.
The College regularly carries out campus cultural activities with distinctive themes, and has successively hosted the finals of "Golden Butterfly Cup National University Enterprise Simulation Management Classic (South China)", held a school-wide "Wenhua Cup" knowledge competition, a literary performance of "Love Haizhu District and Help the Disabled in send warm", a May 4th essay contest, a survey of the three rural issues in Shenshan Town, Baiyun District, a visit to the Martyrs Cemetery and Huangpu Military Academy, and organized track and field competitions and ball competitions. Since 2004, students' literary and cultural activities in our college have won 3 national prizes, 4 provincial prizes and 25 municipal prizes. Sports won provincial prize 13 and municipal prize 55.
In recent years, the college has held more than 30 humanities lectures, organically combining characteristic training with students' career development, and carrying out elite education, so that students can set an example and have clear growth goals. Dr. Kai-fu Lee, President of Google China, Professor Chen, former China diplomat in Israel, and Ms. Zhang, President of Time Fortune Technology Company, and other famous people came to our hospital to give lectures on successful experiences.
In order to keep students abreast of the cutting-edge trends of the software industry at home and abroad and broaden their academic horizons, our college often invites experts and scholars at home and abroad to hold various academic lectures, including Dr. Zhang Yaqin, Vice President of Microsoft Corporation, Professor Zhao Wei, Vice President of A & ampM University, Professor Wu Jie of Atlanta University, Douglas Vandekerkhove, President of ACDSee, and other famous experts and scholars at home and abroad, and also invites senior technical managers of IT companies such as Microsoft Asia Institute of Engineering and IBM to communicate with our college students.
10, paying attention to the quality of training and winning a good social reputation.
Since the establishment of the college, school leaders and college leaders have always regarded the quality of running a school as the lifeline of the software college. We always adhere to the principles of "quality first" and "strict entry and strict exit" in the enrollment, entrance examination, training process, thesis guidance and graduation defense of master of software engineering. In undergraduate education, we should pay attention to teaching quality, standardize management and do a good job in every link of training. Therefore, according to the characteristics of software college, a series of management regulations are formulated on the basis of relevant management regulations of the school to ensure the teaching quality. Through hard work, it has formed a good academic reputation.
On June 5438+ 10, 2009, Zhang Lei, an undergraduate of 2005 in our college, obtained the doctoral qualification of "National High-level University Construction Project". This is the second time that an undergraduate in our college has obtained such qualifications. Previously, Huang Chenyu, a 2004 undergraduate in our college, was qualified for the national high-level public graduate program in 2008, and was the only undergraduate among 67 students who obtained the public qualification.
The college has always paid attention to cultivating students' innovative ability and engineering practice ability. The students in our college have a solid professional foundation and strong engineering practice ability, and have achieved good results in some high-level academic competitions. For example, the Blackstone team composed of students such as Wang Qing of our college won the first prize of themoon in the 2006 "IBM Cup" SOA Application Competition for China University Students, with a bonus of 654.38+10,000 yuan. In the preliminary round, they were the earliest and most complete team among the 24/kloc-0 teams, and their scheme even became the standard for the judges to judge other schemes. In the scheme display of the rematch, their outstanding performance conquered many judges, and the judges gave the Blackstone team a high evaluation of "professionalism, dedication and Excellence". In the project development finals of IBM China Research Center and Development Center in the last two months, Blackstone team has been ahead of the other four teams from Tsinghua, Peking University and Xi Jiaotong University in various indicators, and finally became the national champion. Wang Qing, the captain, concluded that the professional training and quality tempering of the Software Institute were the key to winning the competition.
Procter & gamble company. Composed of Zhao Hang and other students in our college; Team T won the championship in Greater China in the final of the 2008 "IBM Cup" National Undergraduate SOA Business Process Modeling Competition. The primary stage of 800 P& students in more than 200 universities in China; Team T successfully entered the semi-finals with rich and complete preliminary deliverables. In the rematch stage, they refined the business modeling process again and put forward a number of innovations. They completed 49 documents, 88 1 page and 4 videos, and finally passed strict screening and entered the finals. In the final stage, Chinese mainland 15 team and Taiwan Province Province 2 team, P & amp； Team T considered every detail in the final, and made full preparations from the final defense to the work display, and finally won unanimous praise from the judges. The judges of the competition are interested in P & amp； Make comments; P & ampT commented as follows: "P&; T team has innovative performance in business process and simulation, and can put forward its own unique opinions in ROI and performance evaluation and analysis. This is a thoughtful team. This work embodies the independent thinking and innovative spirit of an excellent team, and the construction and display of team culture plays an important role in the success of the work. "
Graduates with good comprehensive quality are welcomed by employers. In the acceptance evaluation of software institute in 2006, the graduate quality survey organized by China Software Industry Association showed that the comprehensive evaluation score of our graduates by employers was among the best in the national model software institute (9 schools in China scored more than 4.3 points, and the software institute of Sun Yat-sen University scored 4.34 points).
Graduates have good employment prospects. In addition to continuing their studies, most of them have entered well-known enterprises at home and abroad such as Huawei, Cisco, IBM, AsiaInfo, Netease, Tencent, etc., and some of them are engaged in related work in banks, schools, taxation, communications and other units.