Reform and Practice of Graduation Project Design by Application of CDIO Concept -Illustrated by the example of process equipment and control engineering major

Abstract：Illustrated by the example of process equipment and control engineering major，this article discusses how to improve the students’ comprehensive ability under the guidance of CDIO engineering educational concept during phase of graduation project design. In the article, the author describes how to integrate concepts such as the large-scale engineering, cultivation of comprehensive ability and close contact with industrial actual practices into each link of graduation project design during the research and development of full series and all categories of "corrugated tube type half volume type heat exchanger" through the cooperation between college and enterprise. Specific practices include how to integrate the research and development of the other engineering projects into graduation project design; how to combine the comprehensive professional curriculum design with the graduation project design, and how to embed more tasks of practical significance into the graduation project design. The results of the implementation indicate that the practice of educational reform based on CDIO concept could feasibly ensure the quality of the graduation project. Keywords: Process equipment and control engineering; CDIO; Graduation project design; Cooperation between college and enterprise; Ability of engineering practice

Proceedings of the 11th International CDIO Conference, Chengdu, China, June 8-11 2015