Simulating Industry: A Holistic Approach for Bridging the Gap between Engineering Education and Industry. Part Ⅱ: Practice in Mechatronics Engineering

摘要

Mechatronics engineering is a new discipline area where multidisciplinary synthesis, teamwork and communication, hands-on and laboratory experiences, open ended problem formulation and solving, and examples of'best practices' from industry are emphasized. This paper presented how the 'philosophy of simulating industry (SI)' was realized in mechatronics engineering education at the Chinese-German school of applied sciences (Chinesisch-Deutsche Hochschule fuer Angewandte Wissenschaften, CDHAW) of Tongji University. The key elements include: (1) integrated knowledge network, (2) integrated PBL and DBL methodology, (3) integrated industry-based internship and bachelor thesis. The results of this exploration and practice are encouraging and promising, and experiences are shared.