Explore how to make new engineering become the fulcrum of leveraging the "quality revolution" of Higher Education Graduation project "cross-border group" new engineering allows students to "ride the wind and waves" Geng Xiaoya, a senior majoring in chemical engineering, did something to "challenge herself". In the last half of her undergraduate year, she joined a graduation design project - "smart social governance semantic search engine", which has nothing to do with her major. How difficult is such a "cross-border"? It is to let Geng Xiaoya, who has never learned programming, teach computers to accurately understand the intentions of human hearts. This is one of the 18 new engineering graduation design projects solicited by Tianjin University in 2022. In order to actively respond to the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, and cultivate a large number of diversified and innovative excellent engineering and technological talents, new engineering came into being. Asking for industrial development and technological innovation is the meaning of the reform of engineering education. Therefore, the new engineering courses from teaching to graduation design projects also come from real engineering needs, with special emphasis on multidisciplinary cooperation. Not long ago, 121 teachers from 10 different colleges of Tianjin University led 172 undergraduate graduates to end their undergraduate career with a wonderful "collective show" of the new engineering graduation design project. For many of them, they also found a new starting point in life here. Turn the topic into a real one, and practice it in a real way Geng Xiaoya participated in the "smart society governance semantic search engine (industry knowledge map and big data Intelligence)" project team, which brought together 23 teachers from 10 colleges and 27 students from 8 colleges. Wang Wenjun, Professor of the Department of intelligence and computing of the University, is the general director of the project. "Real problems, real practices", "from discipline oriented to industrial demand oriented", "from discipline segmentation to cross-border integration" has always been the way to cultivate new engineering talents. The project relies on three national key R & D projects. The steering team lineup of each project team can be called "luxury" - not only covering professional teachers with different disciplinary backgrounds, but also attracting industry experts and enterprise engineers to participate in the guidance. "Sea, land and air intelligent unmanned system security inspection platform" includes 27 topics, involving 7 colleges, 15 instructors and 27 undergraduates; The project of "integrated design of buildings throughout their life cycle based on modern information technology" has set up 16 topics, which are jointly completed by 16 students under the guidance of a tutor group composed of 10 teachers and 4 enterprise experts. "The project guide is issued to the whole school, and instructors and students can choose from each other." Xia Shuqian, deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of the University, said that this determines that the instructors and students do not necessarily come from the same college. The graduation design project of "optical electric coupling CO2 green conversion integrated system development" undertaken by Zhang Peng, a professor of the school of chemical engineering of the University, attracted four students from the College of automation to join. Zhang Peng believes that these students have obvious advantages in photovoltaic energy storage electro catalytic power supply system and intelligent energy control methods. The idea of "cross-border clustering" comes from the real needs of engineering projects, because no engineering project can be completed with the knowledge of only one discipline. In the view of Associate Professor Xu Jie, the person in charge of "integrated design of buildings throughout their life cycle based on modern information technology", the design of some architectural designers cannot be achieved in architectural engineering, and some designed structures may cause trouble to the later water heating and electric construction. These "embarrassments" come from mutual understanding caused by professional segmentation. In the project he directed, the interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams of architecture, structure, HVAC, water supply and drainage, electrical, management and other interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams worked together to complete the Rural Revitalization Project of "design of xijingyu education and culture center in Jizhou district", and established the whole life-cycle integrated design project of the building. According to Xiehui, the professor in charge of the "sea, land and air intelligent unmanned system security inspection platform", with a clear goal as the traction, we should organize students from multiple disciplines to learn from and inspire each other, "it is a rewarding thing for teachers and students to complete an exciting engineering system and restore the complete engineering world together." Change "I want to learn" to "I want to learn" Change "one-to-one" to "many to one", from "single soldier operation" to "team division and cooperation", "students' interests are always the highest priority." In Xie Hui's view, the initiative is always in the hands of students from the selection of topics to the final defense. The research process is more like a graduate student doing a project. Geng Xiaoya's graduation project is much more difficult: he should report the progress of his subject every week, self-study the "knowledge map", and make a mid-term summary report. Li Xuewei, a computer major, became Geng Xiaoya's instructor. In the face of computer "Xiaobai" students, she was initially ready to "teach from scratch". But she soon found that the enthusiasm and ability of students' autonomous learning were beyond her imagination. At first, the teacher taught with the master's degree and doctor's degree in the group. Later, students of different majors learned from each other, "I can't believe they can enter the state so quickly. It can be seen that they all worked hard after class." The students also tasted the joy of active learning. "As a student majoring in management, I originally had a weak computer foundation and insufficient professional knowledge in the biomedical field," said Li Jiaqi, a student of the Department of economics and management. The beauty of the new engineering is that it allows you to experience the joy of learning new knowledge. Knowing that the "expert knowledge map construction and visualization research in the field of prevention and control of new sudden onset infectious diseases" he participated in is about to be truly applied to disease prevention and control, which makes him energetic every day and enjoys the learning process of "being creative and passionate" with his classmates. "Guide students to actively explore cutting-edge topics, change from 'let me learn' to 'I want to learn', and stimulate students' academic interest and internal motivation." Gong Jinlong, vice president of Tianjin University, believes that this is the only way to cultivate diversified and innovative excellent engineering talents in the future. Change assessment to sharing and complete the project as playing LEGO In the "sea, land and air intelligent unmanned system security inspection platform" group, many students received a special title - "excellent control engineer", "excellent project manager", "excellent algorithm engineer", "excellent communication engineer", etc. Xie Hui believes that every student's talent and creativity will be found here and given honor incentives. Every reply meeting of the group has become a sharing meeting, which makes everyone look forward to it. Here, no one only takes the final paper as the evaluation standard. The reporter saw in the "scoring table for the mid-term defense of the graduation design of the intelligent unmanned system security inspection platform of sea, land and air" that the assessment content includes: understanding of the research project, innovation and feasibility of the research, whether it can solve practical problems, and understanding of the mutual cooperation relationship. In the project team of "smart society governance semantic search engine (industry knowledge map and big data Intelligence)", the graduation assessment is divided into four parts: graduation thesis, test report, video display and physical display. The title of each project is not isolated. "Future oriented, cutting-edge, interest driven, no ceiling" is the requirement of Professor wangwenjun for the project. In his view, these graduation projects are like a set of Lego building blocks. Each project is a relatively independent small building block. Different theme combinations can be combined into a large building block, and all projects can also be combined into a larger building block. For each student, it also becomes a continuous process of advancement: determine different levels of expected results in advance, and increase the difficulty level by level, which has different challenges. "Constantly upgrade and fight strange things, and each topic can be in-depth, or even finish reading a doctor." "Each project is not only real, but also complex, which reflects multidisciplinary and engineering practice." Professor gupeihua, director of the new engineering education center, admitted that the students have done much more than he imagined, "many reports are even the beginning of a doctoral thesis." Wangshibin, director of the Academic Affairs Office of Tianjin University, believes that graduation design is an important part of Tianjin University's implementation of new engineering talent training. In the next step, it will also organically integrate major enrollment, major training, major diversion, academy system, graduation employment, etc. with the construction of new engineering production and education platform and project-based teaching, and integrate the construction of new engineering into enrollment plan, training plan, curriculum system, practical teaching In every measure of talent training, such as the breakthrough of this research, we should really give play to the fulcrum role of new engineering in leveraging the "quality revolution" of higher education. China Youth Daily · China Youth Network reporter huchunyan correspondent Liu Xiaoyan source: China Youth Daily (outlook new era)