Reflections on the Cultivation of Emerging Engineering Talents on the Science Background: An Example on Exploring New Energy Science and Engineering Discipline at Nankai University
College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
Abstract:
At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, which has put forward higher requirements for the discipline of new energy science and engineering with typical interdisciplinary characteristics. On the background of emerging engineering education, the "new energy science and engineering" discipline is building at Nankai University to cater for the development of renewable energy and to explore the strategies of talent cultivation. The models for talent training, settings of new curriculum system, and forms of teaching practice are presented. The goal is to promote the extension of applied science towards engineering and to foster the cultivation of talents in the new energy field with broad interdisciplinary science-technology horizon and strong practical ability.