On the afternoon of January 8, 2021, the School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing (SDIM) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) held the “SDIM NEE Industry Design — Final Presentation of the 1st Semester,” which showed the preliminary results of the University’s New Engineering Education (NEE) model.
The presentation was composed of 3 sections: Group report, Q&A by Judges, and the Product demonstration. In their presentations, combining with the criteria of SDIM NEE Evaluation Scheme, the students reported their learning outcomes of comprehensive capabilities like project management, learning capability, communication skills, team working, etc. According to SDIM NEE Evaluation Scheme, the evaluation focuses more on the learning curves of students during the whole courses, rather than knowledge learning only. It encourages students to learn and dig out solutions from failures by deep learning, which will improve their levels of knowledge application and comprehensive capabilities.
Prof. Gang OU, the Practice Professor of SDIM, commented that these students’ learning process was almost the same as the whole process from design to completion of a project development in the actual industrial environment. He hoped that through the courses of this semester, the students could know and well apply the skills and capabilities of problem recognition and solving.
Prof. Jingshen WU, Dean of SDIM, summarized that he was happy and proud to see that SDIM students were able to integrate the knowledge they learned into their project development, and well-performed with team spirit in their cooperation and communication. He pointed out that those were the essences that SDIM’s New Engineering Education System aims to cultivate, and he encouraged students to grow up as practitioners and missionary constructors of New Engineering Education for the Nation in future.
The first undergraduate program in the new engineering education system of SUSTech was officially launched in September 2020. A total of 33 Sophomores of the University entered the program after interviews and assessments. In the 1st semester, there are five core courses conducted by a Learning Project- Mobile Transportation Vehicle, which are Design Thinking and Engineering, Mechanical Design and Manufacturing I, Fundamentals of Materials Engineering, Analog Circuits System Design, Rapid Prototyping Techniques. The students will learn the courses through the learning project in different 5-member teams. Additionally, SDIM also offered the course of Product Design Visualization for Sophomores this semester, to build and improve their skills of design thinking with engineering projects.
