中美高校化工专业本科课程设置比较研究

Comparative Study on Undergraduate Curriculum of Chemical Engineering in Chinese and American Universities

世界范围内新一轮科技革命的蓬勃发展,促使我国化工产业结构加快了转型升级的步伐,这对化工人才的能力和素质提出了新要求,因此高校迫切需要通过完善课程设置培养新型化工人才。文章选取美国麻省理工学院、斯坦福大学、加州大学伯克利分校和中国浙江大学、天津大学、华东理工大学作为研究对象,从培养目标、课程内容、课程结构三个方面对中美高校化工专业本科课程设置进行了详细的比较分析,并提出了对国内高校化工专业本科课程改革的思考。

The new round of scientific and technological revolution in the world has accelerated the transformation and upgrading of China’s chemical industrial structure.Under the influence of such changes,the society has put forward new requirements on the ability and quality of chemical engineering talents,and it is increasingly urgent for colleges and universities to cultivate new chemical engineering talents by improving the curriculum setting.In this article,MIT,Stanford University,University of California,Berkeley in America,and Zhejiang University,Tianjin University,East China University of Science and Technology in China are selected as the reserach objects.From training target,course content and curriculum structure of colleges and universities in China and the United States,the setting of undergraduate curriculum in chemical engineering has been analyzed comparatively in detail.Thoughts on undergraduate curriculum reform in chemical engineering of Chinese colleges and universities has proposed.