AN INNOVATIVE CULTIVATION PROGRAMME FOR NEW ENGINEERING TALENTS WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONAL CAPACITY§§§

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Abstract. In recent decade, an increasing number of foreign students have enrolled in English-Taught undergraduate courses in universities of China. The universities which are qualified to accept foreign students have built up specific full English teaching resources, constantly summarizing experience and polishing designs of curriculum and resource allocation for domestic students. In February 2017, the National Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China issues Notice on Research and Practice in New Engineering Areas. It is clearly required that universities should be innovative, and that the cultivation of compound talents should be enhanced in the field of engineering education. This thesis discusses the essentiality, indispensability and feasibility of opening full-English teaching resources to domestic engineering students of China.

Simultaneously, the full-English talent cultivation curriculum is suggested to involve social and cultural related subjects, in other words, subjects of humanities. The term of new engineering talents conveys the nation’s ideal and need for a high-standard social constructor in modern China. It is the young talents with great creativity, innovative spirits, and a global perspective that this country is aching in awaiting such talents to be cultivated in bulk. To achieve such a cultivating goal, the curriculum should not be constrained to science, technology, and engineering. Instead, it is general-shared cultural and other humanity subjects that enlighten the young intellects’ thoughts.

This dissertation introduces current cultivation programmes for new engineering talents in China, followed by reforms and redesigns of cultivation programmes. After a discussion on the practical budget- controls realised by reallocating existing study resources, an innovative New Engineering Talents’ cultivation plan is achieved by a multi-cultural classroom and an interdisciplinary curriculum. Full- English taught subjects are emphasised due to the necessity and significance of social and cultural subjects when examining the value of disciplines in cultivating New Engineering Talents of China, who is capable of embracing the cross-boundary competition and intercultural cooperation.

Keywords: Reallocation of teaching resources, Cultivation of New Engineering Talents, Intercultural communicational capacity

Yue Yanfeng

University of Science and Technology Liaoning Anshan, China
e-mail: yyfustl@163.com

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