From June 10th to 11th, a team of 6 experts for engineering education joint accreditation expert group led by JIN Miao, a professor and doctoral supervisor of Yanshan University, conducted an on-site inspection on the discipline accreditation of Traffic Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Technology of SDUT.
On the morning of the June 10th, the expert group’s on-site inspection meeting was held in the conference room on the second floor of the North Building of Xingyuan Hotel. Members of the expert group and school leaders LYU Chuanyi, DENG Changliang and WEI Xiuting attended the meeting.
LYU Chuanyi, secretary of the Party Committee of SDUT, expressed warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to all the experts on behalf of the more than 40,000 teachers, students and staff. He said that disciplines were the basic units for running colleges and universities, and the implementation of discipline accreditation and evaluation was an important measure for colleges and universities to promote engineering education reform and improve the quality of talent training in China; an important content of the construction of “New Engineering” and “Double First-Class”, and an important symbol of the internationalization of engineering education. He urged all the experts to give their advice and “consult the pulse” for Traffic Engineering, as well as Chemical Engineering and Technology, to promote the rapid development of the two disciplines of SDUT and continuously improve the quality of talent training.
JIN Miao briefly explained the purpose and requirements of the inspection. He said that during the inspection, the expert group would strictly abide by the work discipline and carry out the inspection activities in strict accordance with the accreditation standards.
The heads of the Traffic Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Technology made supplementary explanations to the self-evaluation materials from seven aspects: student indicators, training goals, graduation requirements, continuous improvement, curriculum system, faculty, and support conditions.
The members of the expert group conducted on-site exchanges with the heads of the relevant departments of SDUT on the issues of the two disciplines that need to be verified.
During the inspection, the expert group conducted a comprehensive examination of the discipline construction of Traffic Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Technology by inspecting teaching facilities, conducting in-depth interviews, and consulting archival materials in accordance with the relevant requirements of discipline accreditation.
On the afternoon of June 11th, the expert group’s on-site inspection feedback meeting was held in the conference room on the second floor of the North Building of Xingyuan Hotel. Members of the expert group and school leaders such as HU Xingyu, LIU Guohua and WEI Xiuting, attended the meeting. The feedback meeting was hosted by JIN Miao.
JIN Miao gave feedback on behalf of the expert group. He affirmed the early work, efforts and achievements of the two disciplines. Combined with the accreditation standards, he pointed out the existing problems in discipline construction and put forward rectification suggestions from the aspects of the implementation of graduation requirements and indicators, the improvement of curriculum evaluation system, the strengthening of teaching quality monitoring mechanism, experimental courses and the allocation of experimental teachers.
The members of the expert group gave feedback on the main problems found one by one and put forward constructive suggestions from the aspects of discipline characteristics, training goals, curriculum design, internship practice, teaching staff, condition guarantee, and continuous improvement.
HU Xingyu, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and president of SDUT, made a speech and made three commitments on behalf of SDUT. First, we should improve the working mechanism and continue to implement the rectification of feedback opinions; Second, we should take discipline accreditation as an opportunity to comprehensively deepen the reform of talent training quality; Third, we should strengthen the integration of production and education, constantly improve the mechanism of school-enterprise collaborative education system, and strive to achieve a greater breakthrough in first-class discipline construction and discipline accreditation.