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Engineering education aims to help students become active designers, understand design requirements better, and be capable to execute real design projects. Based on CDIO engineering education model, comprehensive practice courses in the authors' university were redesigned and developed to provide students a complete " conceiving, designing, implementing, operating" learning experience. Under the consideration of the pedagogic characteristics, existing problems and cultivation demands, we constructed interdisciplinary teaching mode and CDIO project-based organizational structure; systematically designed teaching activities ( e. g., course curriculum, teaching methods, assessment metrics, etc. ) and continuously improved. A novel teaching method with "inter-specialty, project-based" has been established. After six years of practice, it shows that the students' ability of innovation and practice was widely improved. Student self-report data indicate high satisfaction with their learning experiences. It is also expected that this study may offer a reference to other engineering education reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As an important part of practical teaching in universities, the experimental teaching demonstration center directly affects the quality of undergraduate training. Taking the Information Engineering Beijing Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center as an example, the reform and practice in experimental teaching were introduced. Firstly, a CDIO-OODA engineering education concept based on active projects was presented under the student-centered framework. Secondly, a multi-level, three-dimensional, progressive and continuous composite innovation talent teaching system was constructed by combining with the training orientation of automation discipline. And the curriculum contents were designed based on the engineering projects. Then, a new teaching method was formed under the framework of CDIO implementation, which applied a variety of advanced teaching methods to the different stages of CDIO. Finally, the effectiveness of the reform and practice was demonstrated through the results of teachers, student achievements and demonstration results. It will be providing ideas for the construction and continuous improvement of experimental teaching demonstration centers in the new era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]