ABSTRACT
According to the investigation carried out by the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, China has the largest number of engineering and technical personnel. However, it ranks the 36th place in the world by the index of qualified engineers, which is directly related to the existing problems in the teaching and practice of engineering personnel in China. [1]
The Decision on Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reforms approved by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee pointed out that vocational education constitutes an important foundation for national economic and social development strategy, whereas the modern vocational education system is a crucial part of the modern education system. According to the Ministry of Education, vocational education reform has to keep pace with the society by rapidly accelerating the development of modern vocational education and establishment of modern vocational education system as the strategic starting point for education restructuring. It centers on promoting employment and takes quality improvement as the focus of vocational education reform. [2]
Currently, although the domestic machinery training education includes the production process-based project and modular research, it actually fails to satisfy the actual needs of the society as it is difficult to nurture complex technical personnel with the following problems: for machinery training, “its actual operation is independent and simple,” without comprehensive and design programs provided to
train students; the integration of training courses and students’ majors needs to be strengthened; the conflict between limited training hours and increasingly higher training requirements becomes more prominent; and so on.
