Our School as the leader unit of the National Committee for Environmental Engineering Professional Degree successfully hosted the 8th National seminar on Graduate Education of Environmental Engineering Professional Degree
Time:2018-10-25        Views:124

    On October 20 to 21, 2018, the 8th National Symposium on Postgraduate Education for Engineering Degree in Environmental Engineering was held in Huangshi, Hubei Province. The symposium was hosted by the National Committee for Engineering Degree in Environmental Engineering and hosted by the Hubei Institute of Technology. Mr. Huang Guobin, the Deputy Director - General of Hubei Provincial Education Department, Mr. Zhang Wei, the Deputy Secretary - General of the National Committee for the Engineering Master's Professional Degree, Li Shejiao, President of Hubei Institute of Technology, and 175 experts and representatives participated in the meeting.

The theme of this seminar is "Leading the Master Training Mode in Environmental Engineering with New Educational Ideas". At the seminar, Professor Hu Yongyou of South China University of Technology reported the progress on the collaboration. First, he reviewed the work of the Collaboration Team for Environmental Engineering Master’s degree in the past 20 years, the major work in the past two years, and the work in the field classification since 2018. He hopes that all training units took the initiative in understanding the new trend of engineering degree education and making adjustment, and worked under the organization of the newly established Resource and Environment Sub - Teaching Committee. Then Professor Ning Xunan of Guangdong University of Technology, Mr. Zhang Wei, and Professor Xu Chao, Dean of Yixing Institute of Engineering gave the conference reports. Then, the meeting was divided into three sessions for discussions and exchange. In the three sessions, Professor Zhang Guoliang of Zhejiang University of Technology, Professor Liu Min of Sichuan University, and other professors and experts made conference reports. The reporters of each session expressed their opinions on how to improve the quality of the professional training in master’s of environmental engineering regarding the scientific research platform construction, Sino - foreign cooperation in running schools, curriculum system and teaching materials construction, and practice. Also, participants had a heated discussion on how to position the tutors and postgraduates, the role and significance of the engineering ethics course, the topic selection and the thesis defense, and so on. The meeting also collected the opinions and suggestions of the participants on the environmental reaction engineering curriculum guide, the pollution control chemistry and engineering core curriculum guide, the environmental bioengineering guide and others.

The committee follows the pace of the national education reform, actively reforms and innovates, forges ahead, strengthens the characteristics of field training, and explores a high-level applied talents training mode to support the healthy development of the national economy. The meeting achieved the expected results, made clear the importance of new thinking and new ideas for improving the quality of professional master's training and the future development direction, showed the major achievements of universities in exploring innovative training modes for professional masters, and provided new ideas for the next step to strengthen the characteristic construction and educational reform of professional master's programs in the fields of resources and environment.