SCUPI

Recently, Sichuan University has finished the mid-term review of the “New Century Higher Education Reform Project (Phase 11)”. SCUPI has been granted approval for three teaching reform projects under this program, led respectively by Dr. Li Ye (Associate Dean for Student Affairs), Dr. Wu Yingjie (Materials Science and Engineering), and Ms. Xue Shuang (Career Advising Group).

On March 27, the mid-term review meeting of the Institute was held in Classroom N209. More than 30 faculty and staff members attended the meeting.  

Dr. Li Ye presented the mid-term practical exploration of the project, focusing mainly on two aspects:

1. Taking the promotion of curriculum development with political and policy considerations, demonstrating how engineering courses achieve competency development with real course cases from the Institute.
2. Reviewing the century-long history and policy norms of introducing overseas textbooks and encouraging faculty to actively develop course materials.

The second project, led by Dr. Wu Yingjie, focuses on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and project-based learning to optimize the talent cultivation mechanism for ICME.

Mid-term achievements include:

• Completion of a student survey, revealing high student interest and widespread use of AI in materials education, with strong recognition of AI’s value in literature assistance and basic theoretical courses.
• Implementation of AI-assisted teaching and project-based learning practices, and construction of an ICME curriculum system covering core modules including multi-scale modeling, computational simulation, and data-driven optimization.
• Establishment of a diversified evaluation system, which has received positive feedback from students.

Led by Ms. Xue Shuang, the third project explores innovative practices of cultivating international innovative undergraduate talents driven by industry-education integration at SCUPI.

The project has made smooth progress:

• Developed the “348” Innovative Talent Cultivation Model, with refined phased objectives and assessment criteria.
• Established partnerships with several renowned enterprises, launched 5 enterprise co-built courses.
• Innovated a full-cycle progressive talent cultivation model through platform construction, in-depth university-enterprise collaboration, and dynamic quality assurance.

This mid-term review clarified the follow-up research directions. Taking this seminar as an opportunity, the Institute will continue to deepen education and teaching reform, promote high-quality and efficient project implementation, and steadily enhance the talent cultivation quality.