Exploration and Practice of Marine Technology Talent Training Model from the Perspective of Maritime Power Strategy and Integration of Science and Education

Lei Yang; Yingying Zhang; Hao Gao; Maosheng Zhou

doi:10.70088/m6zjdw58

Authors

Lei Yang School of Ocean Technology Science, Qilu University of Technology, Qingdao, China Author
Yingying Zhang School of Ocean Technology Science, Qilu University of Technology, Qingdao, China Author
Hao Gao School of Ocean Technology Science, Qilu University of Technology, Qingdao, China Author
Maosheng Zhou School of Ocean Technology Science, Qilu University of Technology, Qingdao, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70088/m6zjdw58

Keywords:

maritime power strategy, integration of science and education, marine technology, talent training model, four-in-one framework, innovation ability

Abstract

Building a maritime power constitutes a core strategic arrangement for China’s long-term development. As a key discipline supporting marine resource exploration, marine ecological management, marine equipment research and development as well as marine spatial governance, marine technology determines the core competitiveness of national marine science and technology and the development ceiling of marine industry. At present, domestic marine technology talent training generally suffers from insufficient integration of scientific research and teaching, separation between theoretical teaching and practical research, weak engineering innovation capacity of students and imperfect interdisciplinary education system, which can hardly meet the diversified and high-level talent demands in the marine industry in the new era. Supported by national key laboratories, accumulated research projects and the construction advantages of first-class discipline development in smart marine technology and engineering, this study takes in-depth integration of science and education as the core reform orientation to reconstruct the education and teaching system of marine technology majors. A four-in-one innovative talent training model integrating curriculum, scientific research, platforms and supervisors is established and implemented. A hierarchical and progressive case-based curriculum system is developed based on cutting-edge disciplinary progress and practical industrial demands, and a regular mechanism is set up to transform various research achievements into accessible resources for classroom teaching and practical training. Immersive full-process scientific research training is carried out relying on national major research projects and provincial and ministerial key platforms to cultivate students’ comprehensive ability to judge, analyze and solve practical scientific and complex engineering problems independently. Meanwhile, a collaborative supervision system characterized by interdisciplinary integration and industry-university-research linkage is constructed to foster students’ team awareness and cross-disciplinary innovative thinking. Adopting a steady implementation approach of pilot exploration, dynamic optimization based on multi-party evaluation and gradual promotion of mature models, a highly replicable and popularizable talent training system featuring science-education integration is finally formed, together with a standardized and systematic professional teaching resource library. The research findings can continuously deliver high-quality reserve talents for the self-reliance and self-improvement of domestic marine science and technology, and provide mature references and practical evidence for education reform of marine technology majors in similar domestic universities.

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