The School of Petroleum Engineering of China University of Petroleum (East China) is one of the main departments established earlier in the school and has become an important base for the cultivation of petroleum engineering talents and scientific research in China. In recent years, the college has made remarkable achievements in running schools, and has successively won the honorary titles of National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization, National Advanced Collective of Education System and Advanced Grassroots Party Organization of Shandong Province.

In response to the needs of the national energy strategy, the college has carefully built a quality assurance system for the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents with distinctive characteristics by relying on the Shandong Provincial Education Reform Project Research on the Quality Assurance Mechanism for the Cultivation of Top-notch Innovative Talents with Bachelor's, Master's and Doctor's Degrees - Taking the Discipline of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering as an Example. Through the implementation of the integrated training model of undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees, it has provided strong talent support and intellectual support for the national energy security strategy, and has made important contributions to the national petroleum industry and economic and social development.

At the forefront of the oil and gas industry

Reconstruct the knowledge structure system and talent training program

As an important base for talent training in the oil and gas industry, the college proposes to build a knowledge structure system and talent training program oriented to new business formats and cohesive connections, open up a new path for the reform of petroleum higher education, and explore a new direction for the cultivation of scientific and technological talents in the field of energy development in the future.

The college is deeply integrated with the national think tank of PetroChina and has established an interdisciplinary school-enterprise joint expert committee; Combined with the national energy strategic objectives, the development trend of the oil and gas industry and the frontier of disciplines, starting from the school's positioning, social needs and discipline characteristics, the knowledge structure system of undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees is constructed. Docking with the traditional segmented undergraduate and graduate training programs of this discipline, the curriculum is optimized synchronously during the training cycle of undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs, and the teaching plans, management models and operating systems of high-level colleges and universities at home and abroad in this field are used for reference, and the overall revision is carried out according to the requirements of the school, so as to form a revised workflow of the training program oriented to new formats and the connection of undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees.

At the same time, the college focuses on new fields and technologies in the oil and gas industry, optimizes and upgrades the course content by classification and level, and builds a three-level curriculum system that integrates undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees. The first is to upgrade the basic general education curriculum and integrate engineering culture education resources such as family and country feelings and engineering ethics; The second is to optimize the basic courses of the major, from the foundation of gravity mechanics and chemistry to the foundation of heavy mathematics, mechanics, chemistry and artificial intelligence; The third is to innovate the core curriculum of the major, add courses urgently needed for the development of new fields such as deep, deepwater, unconventional and chemical materials in oil and gas fields, and open interdisciplinary new business courses required for the transformation and upgrading of the oil and gas industry.

Anchor management mechanism innovation

Create an excellent environment for talent growth

In order to comprehensively improve the quality of talent training, the college has established a strict and flexible dynamic management mechanism for undergraduate, master's and doctoral talent training, as well as a college + college collaborative education mechanism, and made every effort to cultivate future scientific and technological innovation leaders in the field of energy development.

The college has formulated and issued the implementation rules for the cultivation of undergraduate, master's and doctoral talents, scientifically set the academic performance threshold and early warning cycle for enrollment selection and diversion assessment, implemented the annual assessment and stage competition diversion, strictly managed withdrawal, and strengthened the examination of scientific research potential, innovative thinking, scientific literacy and exploration spirit, so as to improve the ability to cultivate top-notch innovative talents through undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees; In the process of cultivating talents with undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees, the withdrawal and supplement system is introduced, the withdrawal and supplement standards are clarified, and the talent competition atmosphere is created to create a good competition atmosphere and improve the talent competition mechanism; Optimize the doctoral application-assessment and selection diversion mechanism, synchronize with the segmented doctoral unified examination enrollment of the discipline, realize the competition on the same stage, select the best of the best, take academic performance as a precondition, strengthen the assessment of professional foundation, innovation ability and comprehensive quality, and require no less than doctoral unified examination enrollment; Strictly supervise the management process, strictly control the tutors, formulate and introduce the management measures for the post of graduate tutors for the cultivation of undergraduate, master's and doctoral talents, select and hire outstanding teachers as instructors, and implement the talent training responsibility list system; Establish a supervision mechanism covering the whole process of selection and assessment + stage assessment + degree assessment for undergraduate, master's and doctoral talents, and strictly perform supervision responsibilities to ensure effective implementation.

At the same time, we will vigorously promote the college + college system management and the collaborative education mechanism of science and education. The School is responsible for the construction, teaching and related scientific research of relevant basic courses, professional courses and characteristic courses. The college promotes the interaction between teachers and students through the construction of the tutor team, promotes the interaction between students and students through peer counseling, improves the cultural literacy of students through general education and second classroom activities, and enhances the interactive space shared by teachers and students with environmental construction, so as to achieve the construction goal of the college integrating ideological education, academic counseling, humanistic quality and ability improvement, so that the college will become a spiritual home, a cultural community and a base for the growth and success of college students. College tutors are divided into four categories: development tutors, industry tutors, peer tutors, and resident tutors: development tutors are recruited from the whole school, including teachers inside and outside the college, and institutional managers; Industry mentors are open to external experts, distinguished alumni and industry leaders; Peer supervisors recruit outstanding doctoral students, master's students and undergraduate students in the senior year of the college; Resident tutors are grade level counselors, class teachers and academic tutors.

Through the innovation and improvement of the management mechanism, the internal motivation of learners will be fully stimulated, a new path for the long-term training of top-notch innovative talents will be explored, a beneficial learning environment will be provided for learners, and a new mechanism for the collaborative training of top-notch innovative talents will be constructed with the connection between bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.

 Carry forward the spirit of the school motto of only true and true.

Cultivating outstanding and top-notch innovative talents

Focusing on the needs of the national energy strategy, the college reshapes the advanced scientific research training and innovation ability guarantee system for undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees, and cultivates outstanding and top-notch innovative talents.

The college deeply carries forward the spirit of the school motto of only true and realistic, and improves the quality of talent training with practical actions: combined with modern educational theories and technologies, actively explores the five-in-one teaching method of online self-study, classroom teaching, case analysis, problem exploration, and participation and interaction, and optimizes process assessment and diversified evaluation; Widely integrate real application scenarios into the learning experience, and reshape the research-based teaching mode of smart classroom + problem exploration + case study + innovative practice; Open up scientific research and teaching experimental platforms such as national key laboratories and national experimental teaching demonstration centers, support the practice of scientific and technological innovation projects of national-provincial-school-college four-level college students, and set up specialized and innovative integration courses to cultivate students' curiosity, scientific research interest and innovation ability; Set up curriculum knowledge vertically, add a link of comprehensive innovation training for scientific research, and create a problem-oriented four-stage progressive scientific research training and innovation ability training mechanism of engineering practice ability→ basic scientific research literacy→ professional direction literacy→ and cutting-edge innovation literacy; Implement the whole tutor system, equip academic tutors in the training stage of strengthening the foundation and consolidating the foundation, implement the professional tutor responsibility system in the training stage of undergraduate research connection and top-notch promotion, implement the team guidance method based on tutors, hire industry experts as off-campus tutors, and participate in the guidance of students' scientific research training and innovation ability cultivation in an all-round way; Strictly control the process of scientific research and training, and formulate quality assurance measures covering the whole process of topic selection, topic opening and argumentation, mid-term inspection, standard review, report and defense; Improve the collaborative education mechanism, gather the superior resources of universities, scientific research institutions, enterprises and other parties, give full play to the advantages of school-enterprise integration of colleges and universities with industry characteristics, form a collaborative education community of schools, scientific research institutes and enterprises, jointly build professional practice platforms and talent training bases, set up innovative practice projects, carry out cutting-edge training in science and technology, and comprehensively support students to carry out comprehensive training and innovative practice activities of scientific research ability; Introduce industry, enterprise and social evaluation, establish a multiple feedback and evaluation mechanism, and continuously improve the innovation ability guarantee system.

At present, the quality assurance system for the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents with bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees has been built by the college to significantly improve students' independent learning ability, practical ability and innovation ability. In the past three years, the pass rate of the students in the integrated class of this research has been above 99%, and the excellent rate has been above 70%, ranking among the best in the whole school, and the student team has won the special prize of the Challenge Cup national competition for many times, achieving a historic breakthrough.

In the future, the college will continue to uphold the spirit of innovation, continue to deepen the reform of education and teaching, optimize the education support system, and provide opportunities for the growth of top-notch innovative talents with undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees, so as to provide a large number of top-notch innovative talents for accelerating the construction of a strong country in education, science and technology, and talents.

China Education News (May 14, 2025)

Authors: Yao Chuanjin, Hou Jian, Zhang Yuzhe, Qi Ning, Huang Wei'an

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