Engineering Education in Learning

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Reading this article, I feel a lot, as a senior student, recalled the years after the university, I particularly dislike the University of this system of education. In the past few years, I have scolded the shortcomings of this educational system and the inability to change the status quo, only in this system into the big stream. Teachers rely on the PPT mixed pay, by name to retain students, all the education is to test for the purpose, before the exam brush questions, after the exam, forget all, and the teacher judge a student's eyes is always the result. What kind of students do you think can be taught in such an educational system??? You can think that I am a cynic, I know the blind force, and do not change anything. In fact, I have long wanted to escape this kind of education system, sometimes I often think, the first time I struggled to squeeze through the university entrance examination, I see unexpectedly is such education, let me greatly disappointed. Yes, the university education has its merits, I do not deny, at least the library books let you broaden the field of vision, but you in addition to the end of the semester when the formula on the textbook back to memorized also read a few books???? The university does have more powerful professors, but such senior elders and students do not have much contact, especially with undergraduates, students are not affected by the academic. I think a really good way of education is always heuristic, especially science and engineering, the teacher's responsibility should be to teach students how to think, not to tell him the results. There are really good teachers in the university, such as my radio-frequency teacher, but there are few such teachers. Therefore, I decided to give up the qualification, rebirth into the community. We learn too many theories, from the high number of calculus, to analytic geometry, linear algebra, college physics, probability theory and so on, but how much do you really use in life??? Do you calculate the calculator when you buy vegetables??? So, the old man said, "practice is the only criterion to test truth."

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Engineering Education in learning

--Memorial Milliner Mao Yisheng

Mao Yushi

Mao Yisheng is knowledgeable, active, quick-witted, insightful, and I think chatting with him is one of the best ways to enjoy yourself. Coincidentally, from the 50 's to the death of milliner, we always lived very close. Milliner is the pioneer of bridge engineering in China, and I also study engineering (but mechanical engineering), so in the Nijun generation, he and I talked most, but also the most speculative. Before the "Cultural Revolution", there was no time to talk to me continuously on a topic, so I couldn't go into it. After the "Cultural Revolution" began, he leaned on the side, and I had a lot of opportunities to talk to him. At the same time, I also nearly 40 years, experience more, to his ideas easier to understand.

The topics we talk about are all aspects of engineering and technology. He had wanted to transform the whole mechanics system, the concept of waste force, to use the concept of energy. In fact, the mechanical phenomena that we all recognize are essentially the transfer, storage, release and transformation of the form. He even drew up an outline of a "can learn" textbook, and if he could live a few more years, the textbook might be available, which could lead to an overhaul of the whole concept of physics. He also proposed a new definition of science and technology, along this line of thought, science and technology can each establish a disciplinary system, which for engineering education, science and technology activities, scientific and technological research has a time guiding significance. But among his many propositions, what interests me most is the restoration of the reverse engineering education sequence, which he calls "engineering education for learning." To this end, he has written a series of articles and a booklet.

knowledge is summed up from the practice, the more basic Law, the more abstract, leaving the practice is also far more difficult to master. and the principle of learning should be easy after the difficult, gradual. But today's University engineering education is in the opposite way. The first grade of the university to learn calculus and physics, these concepts are abstract, not easy to grasp, and the higher the more close to the actual, the less abstract concept. Learning becomes difficult before it is easy. A young man who is interested in devoting himself to the construction of a bridge, the first encounter is mathematics and mechanics, which is not directly related to the building of bridges, and his professional interests are not easy to cultivate. Some people have very high construction organization ability, but not good at abstract thinking. Such talent is likely to be excluded from the university in the current educational model. On the contrary, most of the outstanding students now graduate from logical reasoning and conceptual application, but have not seen the organizational ability. If they are allowed to command the construction, it is likely that the process of cohesion, quality supervision, personnel coordination and other practical work of confusion. Talent should use its director to avoid its short, but now the university education is biased in theory and relatively neglect of practice. This kind of education order not only violates the first easy after difficult principle, but also makes the student is good at moving the brain and clumsy in the hands. As a result, it is not difficult to produce a great design, but it is difficult to make it become a reality. (When I want to study maths well, I have already taken the postgraduate examination.) ）

In view of this, milliner proposed a new educational order, the principle of which is the prophet, and then know why. Take the bridge construction specialty as an example, the first year of the university to learn the construction regulations, the second-grade study design norms. These studies do not have to explain the theoretical basis of regulations and norms, but only their internal links. Structural mechanics can be studied in the third grade, while grade four is calculus, linear algebra, probability theory and general physics. But the bridge major calculus and physics can be different from the mechanical department, they each have the focus, have their own examples and exercises. The more students go to the higher grades, the more they understand what they are learning in the lower grades, and they understand what is still in the scientific way to explain. So learning to become a natural continuation of the process, become a lifelong career: Live to old, learn old.

Such a new engineering education has a number of advantages:

1, not necessarily four-year (five grade) is not a university graduate, but any one grade can graduate employment. First-year students can be the foreman at the construction site, the second-year graduate can be a design room technician, the full graduation can do research work or for the professor. The demand for high-level talent is already relatively small, which coincides with the number of grades graduating under the new system.

2, any one grade can recruit freshmen. After a person has worked in his or her job for many years, he or she feels the need for further education and can continue to attend school. So the new system has greater flexibility, it can better meet the needs of different levels of talent.

3, now the majority of college graduates want to enter the institute or design Institute, or stay in school teaching, reading itself as a goal, rather than "apply". Their learning is somewhat skewed. On the other hand, many experienced workers in the field, despite their outstanding talent, once on the road to workers, technicians, but no longer hopeless to become a professor, researcher. Some countries in the world have a dual-track education, that is, after graduating from secondary schools can choose to enter vocational schools or formal universities. Although this kind of system is beneficial to meet the different degree of talent demand, it is easy to form the hierarchy concept in society. But the "Engineering education of Learning" has both dual-track and yard advantages.

4, under the new system, large factories, construction site can start a formal university. People of different ages who are interested in learning can easily enter the university's one or two grade. What the school teaches comes from the daily work. This kind of university is particularly suitable for the amateur study, because the study and the practical work close union, the study has the interest, simultaneously explores the more "profound" unknown knowledge domain The road is also open. If large enterprises can run universities, the scale of national higher education can be doubled, while the increase in spending is limited.

Second job, this excellent educational thought, should be of great significance to the country and society. His set of ideas has been long-standing, but in the old society there is no possibility of realization. After the founding of the New China, he really hopes to make a new path in the education system, in the early 1950s he wrote a lot of articles to explore the idea, but this change is too broad, not only to have the consent of education authorities, but also to prepare new textbooks, new teachers, new admission and graduation assessment methods. All this alone, not a large team is impossible to complete. But after the political movement one by one, his most effective assistant was also beaten to the right wing, transferred to the remote mountainous areas, his vision is on the shelf. After the "Gang of four" was crushed, the winds of reform blew over the land of China. His thoughts, 30 years ago, were again in his mind, but he was over eight years old, his eyesight diminished, it was difficult to read, he was more difficult to write, and his old ambition finally extinguished with age. Now we are commemorating him, and I think the best way to commemorate this is to inherit his most beneficial human thought and to put it into practice when the conditions are ripe.

Engineering Education in Learning