包装工程学科建设与研究生培养的学理分析

包装工程学科是应用型交叉学科,既有自身独特的发展轨迹、学理框架、研究方法和路径,也从其所属一级学科和相关支撑学科吸纳养分。本文在梳理包装教育发展历程和研究生培养现状的基础上,从学理上分析了包装学科的基本架构和主要研究方向。其基本架构和研究方向与研究生培养相结合,反映在不同的学校里,必然形成自身的培养模式和特色。     

A Retrospective on Undergraduate Engineering Success for Underrepresented Minority Students

This paper examines the various factors that contribute to the success of minority students in engineering programs by exploring past and current paradigms promoting success and analyzing models for advancing the participation of members of these populations. Included is a literature review of articles, government reports, Web sites, and archives published since 1980. Student success is correlated to several indicators, including pre‐college preparation, recruitment programs, admissions policies, financial assistance, academic intervention programs, and graduate school preparation and admission. This review suggests that the problem of minority underrepresentation and success in engineering is soluble given the appropriate resources and collective national “will” to propagate effective approaches.     

Encouraging Graduate Study in Engineering

Abstract This study was undertaken to provide information on the factors that most influence students to undertake graduate studies in engineering following their baccalaureate degrees. Several hundred engineering deans were asked to send a questionnaire to the three departments in his/her college that had been most successful in encouraging their undergraduates in proceeding to graduate school. Responses indicated that student participation in semester research, student participation in summer research, and mentoring by faculty are the most significant in encouraging students to proceed with graduate studies. These conclusions were confirmed by a survey of newly entering engineering graduate students. Fifty percent of student respondents indicated that they had been involved in some form of research as undergraduates and eighty percent of this group identified that this experience had been important to them in deciding to choose graduate study. It is concluded that the inclusion of undergraduate students in research programs can be very important in influencing their career choices and in enhancing their likelihood of proceeding with graduate studies.     

Entrepreneurship in a Graduate Engineering Program*

The paper will describe three courses that emphasize the entrepreneurship of new, joint projects between engineering and business students. The courses were co‐taught among engineering, business and applied psychology. The graduate student teams developed a marketing plan, conceived a design, built a prototype, and wrote a business plan. The teams were formed into companies with roles and responsibilities, had a budget, and were given the ability to fire “free‐loaders.” The teams were expected to develop innovative, high risk, high reward products. The students learned to take risks, accept failure, be creative, and work in a self‐directed team. A stress‐free classroom environment fostered creativity.     

美国包装专业研究生教育

介绍了密歇根州立大学、威斯康星-斯陶特大学、罗切斯特理工学院和克莱姆森大学等美国4所大学包装专业的研究生教育情况.包括培养目标、课程设置、研究方向等.表明在有关部门支持下,开展我国包装工程专业的研究生教育已势在必行.     

Exploring Engineering Graduate Student Research Proficiency with Student Surveys

Background Research is considered the essence of graduate engineering education, but knowledge about the engineering graduate student research experience is scarce in literature. Some studies that examine graduate engineering education suggest that students are experiencing educational deficiencies that can affect the research experience. Thus, exploring engineering graduate student research proficiency is warranted. Purpose (Hypothesis ) This work begins to earnestly answer the research questions “How proficient are engineering graduate students in research?” and “What factors affect the research proficiency of these students?” Design /Method In order to answer the two research questions specifically for the Georgia Institute of Technology Environmental Engineering graduate program, current students in the program participated in two surveys. Survey questions were designed to measure students' perceptions of their research proficiency and to aid in determining student academic motivations tied to proficiency. Results Many students indicated that they lacked research preparation upon beginning graduate study and during the first year of study, lacked development in important research skills like statistics and communicating in writing, and were somewhat hindered in research organization and progress. Regarding academic motivations, students generally valued personal advancement and enrichment over paper publication. Doctoral students overall indicated more preparation with respect to several aspects of research and more value placed on paper publication than did master's students. Conclusions The surveys provided important findings regarding student research proficiency for the engineering graduate program in question. These findings encourage the exploration of engineering graduate student research proficiency on a broader scale in future studies.     

广东教育学院毕业生作品选

毕业设计是检验学生综合能力和综合素质的一次测试,也是每位学生以“准设计师”的身份“张扬个性”的大好时机,以下这些作品是广东教育学院大专班学生的毕业创作,他们在石萍、程耀、李拥军三位教师的指导下根据各自的选题进行了市场定位和创意构思,     

当代工程观与工程教育

当代工程观反映了当代工程科学和工程技术与社会、经济、文化、生态交叉融合、协调构建的新趋势,对于开展工程教育和培养中国现代化建设的工程人才有重要意义。文章分析了在当代学科交叉渗透的趋势下当代工程观的基本内容;探讨了传统工程教育中的存在过分强调科学理性和技术理性的问题;提出了以综合理性为主导,融合当代工程观的当代工程教育理念。     

Engineering Education Scheme

The Engineering Education Scheme forms part of The Royal Academy of Engineering's Best programme, which aims to attract, retain and develop outstanding young engineers, through its student, undergraduate and graduate programmes. Other schemes within the Best programme (which receives funding from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation) include Headstart, Year in Industry and the Engineering Leadership Awards.     

Effectiveness of an Internet‐Based Graduate Engineering Management Course

This research provides engineering educators analytical evidence as to the effectiveness of Internet‐based course instruction. The research examined the University of Missouri‐Rolla's Internet‐based Advanced Production and Operations Management course, with a focus on determining the effectiveness of the Internet‐based education tools used. Over 100 students in five Internet‐based classes and one traditional, in‐class control group were given three sets of surveys, learning style assessments, a course pre‐test, and a course final examination. Multiple conclusions were drawn from this study based on analyses of the data collected. First, the Internet‐based students performed equally as well as the control group as measured by the difference between pre‐test and post‐test scores. Second, the Internet‐based students were found to have had exaggerated time requirement expectations for taking a course in the Internet environment. Third, the students rated the effectiveness and satisfaction positively for the Internet classroom format. Initially, the Internet‐based students were skeptical of electronic lectures but their experiences were positive.     

研究生教务管理系统工作探讨

研究生管理系统方便了学生查询，同时也使教师容易了解学生的情况，为教师的教学工作提供信息，有效地分担教务处的工作，使研究生处的工作简便、高效，管理部门可以抽出更多的时间和精力把管理工作推上新的台阶。     

Chaos,Engineering, and Engineering Education

A comparison is made between a deterministic scientific paradigm and one that is chaos-based. Possible implications of the incorporation of the chaos-based paradigm into the engineering profession as well as into engineering education are discussed.     

Barriers to Increased Engineering Graduate Enrollments: Counterforces and Their Implementation

This paper highlights the role of the faculty member in recruiting students currently enrolled in B.S. programs in engineering and the sciences into full-time pursuit of a graduate-level engineering degree. The faculty member is demonstrated to be in a unique position to influence such students, providing strong counterforces to a confluence of attitudes and pressures experienced during the B.S. experience which effectively create a barrier to full-time engineering graduate study. We analyze this barrier via the method of force field analysis, and demonstrate that effective recruitment into full-time graduate study must be based on a four-fold strategy of education, expectations, improved B.S. experience and better control of the B.S. environment. Approaches to implement these strategies are discussed.     

Education in Engineering Management

Engineering Management programs/courses are a recent development in response to the demand from industry. This paper demonstrates that Engineering Management is an independent field of education. Background, contents, and courses of Engineering Management are reviewed, analyzed, and discussed. The Master of Science (MSc) program in Engineering Management at City University of Hong Kong is used as an example for the purpose of discussion. The information in this paper will be of use as a reference for developing/reforming courses and curricula in Engineering Management.     

Poetry in Engineering Education

An important element of integrating disciplines and enhancing creativity in Drexel University's engineering curriculum is an assignment which combines poetry and engineering. For this assignment, students choose an artifact, research it, create a one-page annotated visual explaining how it works, and then write an original poem about it. Although the poetry instruction, based on a transactional model, takes place in the Humanities classroom, student poems become a component of a concurrent engineering assignment and are read aloud in an engineering lecture, attended by humanities faculty, designated as the “Poetry Reading.” Short in length and having a distinct design on the page, poetry is a particularly suitable literary medium for engineering students to explore. Students relinquish stereotypes about engineers when they see their engineering professor endorse poetry. They also begin to broaden their educational and professional goals.     

Engineering Education in Finland

The Finnish education system differs considerably from that of the United States. Starting at age seven, Finnish students are legally required to complete nine years of formal education. They then have the option of either entering the workforce or attending a vocational school, a polytechnic, or a university. This paper describes the path a Finn takes to acquire a degree in engineering. It describes Finland's goal of using engineering education to help adapt itself to survival in a technology-based 21st century. The paper's main focus is on the Bachelor's degree; however, it also describes the Master's and Doctorate degrees.