Exploration and Practice of Teaching System for Modern Packaging Engineering

Abstract: This paper aims at how to cultivate talents in higher engineering education in China in the 21st century. Combining with the characteristics of packaging engineering in Zhengzhou University and supporting the integrated education of production, education, and research, it constructs a modern packaging engineering professional education platform and operates the target of compound talent cultivation. The model and comprehensive quality education model have been studied and practiced.

Keywords: quality education packaging engineering training model

As a new multidisciplinary multidisciplinary specialty, packaging engineering has not started in China for a long time, but the development speed is very fast. The packaging engineering major of Zhengzhou University began recruiting students in 1998, recruiting 90-120 undergraduates each year. It is a new major in the construction of “211 Project” at Zhengzhou University. The professional raised funds 1.8 million yuan, purchased more than 60 kinds of instruments and equipment, 150 sets (sets), established four laboratories for packaging design, packaging and printing, packaging testing, packaging materials and technology, established a teaching and research level High teacher team. According to the overall talent training goal, under the framework of the "3+1" talent cultivation model, each teaching link is implemented, focusing on cultivating students' qualities and analyzing and solving problems. The professional trains advanced engineering technicians who are engaged in the design, printing, quality inspection, technical management and scientific research of packaging systems. Over the past few years, this specialty has grown from scratch and has been continuously improved to meet the needs of society for packaging engineering talent.

I. Construction of Operational Modes to Achieve "Composite" Talent Cultivation Objectives

Taking the curriculum system and teaching content of Zhengzhou University's packaging engineering as the research object, on the basis of establishing an integrated education model of production, learning, and research, a modern teaching platform for packaging engineering is constructed and a training mode for high-quality personnel is established.

The teaching platform aims at cultivating senior technical personnel of packaging engineering that integrates knowledge, ability, and quality. It combines the four elements of packaging engineering materials, containers, technology and information, and protection products to facilitate storage and sales and promote sales. Establish a platform for general knowledge basics (curriculum). On this platform, based on the society’s demand for talents, we construct several specialized courses and integrate production, learning, and research as the supporting points of the education platform, so as to achieve a solid foundational theory, broad knowledge, and adaptation to the socialist market. The development of high-quality talent for economic development.

1. The coordinated development model of knowledge, ability and quality

To implement comprehensive quality education, the coordinated development of knowledge, ability and quality as the basic strategy to cultivate composite engineering and technical personnel. The packaging engineering major of Zhengzhou University implements various teaching links under the “3+1” talent cultivation framework. Classroom teaching is completed in the first three years. The graduation practice and graduation design are carried out in the fourth year. At the same time, some optional courses, course design and special lectures are also included. In formulating the teaching plan, proceeding from the goal of packaging engineering personnel training, we strive to reflect the logical and structural links and integration between the curriculum systems to avoid the dispersion of curriculum subjects and the repetition of content. With the guiding principle of "strengthening the foundation, broadening majors, emphasizing practice, enhancing abilities, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, and improving their quality", we must strengthen the cultivation of basic qualities and self-learning and engineering practice abilities. We must emphasize "wideness" and highlight "qualified and featured": Compress classroom hours, intensify curriculum exercises, design and practice; increase elective subjects and broaden professional aspects; implement the mentor system, establish special research groups; establish a combination of production, education, and research to jointly cultivate talents.

2, dual goal training mode

To implement a dual-target strategy of coordinated development of science education and humanities education to cultivate composite advanced engineering and technical personnel. Construct a cultural quality education curriculum module and require each student to select from 66 school-level quality education courses in language modules, humanities and history, philosophy and social sciences, arts, economics, and natural sciences courses4. 6 courses to study and complete the required credits.

3, sub-culture mode

The “three-stage” teaching model of China’s higher education that has followed many basic courses—technical (or professional) basic courses—professional courses has been adapted to the educational process under the traditional planned economy system, exposed under the market economy system and the goal of cultivating compound talents. There are many flaws, such as the division of disciplines, the ambiguous course system, the repetition of course content, the difficulty in simplification of academic hours, and the difficulty in supplementing new content.

In the formulation of the teaching plan, we divided the entire teaching process into two basic stages: basic learning and professional learning. The first stage focuses on broadening the foundation and the latter stage focuses on the cultivation of engineering capabilities. The integration of the course content avoids duplication of teaching content, streamlining the class hours, and facilitating the establishment of course systems and the addition of new content. On the platform of the General Education Group, we have established three major professional courses: "Packaging Design and CAD", "Packaging Materials", and "Packaging and Printing", focusing on cultivating students' quality and ability from the entire process of packaging design to printing. While enhancing the artistic accomplishment, we will strengthen the training of computer design. While grasping the performance of materials, we will pay attention to the principles of printing and the study of technology, and highlight the specialty of packaging engineering in Zhengzhou University.

Second, the construction of packaging education professional quality education training model

1. Implement the tutorial system and establish a special research group

　　 Under the circumstances of guaranteeing normal experimental teaching and scientific research activities, using the various conditions of the laboratory, combined with the characteristics of the packaging profession, special research groups such as packaging and printing, packaging design, packaging testing, information, and web page design have been established. The enthusiasm students create a learning environment that improves their ability to work and solve practical problems. Under the guidance of the teacher, students are encouraged to develop their comprehensive qualities. The special research team plays an active role in cultivating students' quality and cooperating with teachers in teaching.

2. Strengthen the experiment teaching and build a relatively independent experimental and experimental teaching system

When experimental studies were added, independent experimental courses were set up, and the transition from dependent experiments to independent experiments was changed. According to the strong application of the packaging profession and the close internal and external experimental characteristics of the experiments, a separate experimental class was set up, and through the construction of experimental courses, the experimental teaching was changed from “authenticated, cognitive, and single” to “applied, designed. Type, comprehensive type, to cultivate students with the application of basic theory and knowledge, comprehensive analysis of problem solving skills.

3. Research and Practice of Integrated Education of Production, Study and Research

There are two tasks in higher engineering education: one is to lay the necessary and broad discipline foundation for future engineers, and the knowledge must be broad and must have a certain degree of comprehensiveness; the second is to make the engineering students receive necessary and basic engineering training. This will enable students to acquire comprehensive multidisciplinary knowledge, analyze engineering constraints, and solve engineering problems. These two tasks cannot be completed by relying solely on teaching in the school classroom. It is necessary to vigorously strengthen the cooperation of production, education and research between schools and enterprises and implement the combination of teaching, scientific research, and production. This is the inevitable result of the training of engineering professionals in engineering colleges in the new century. the measures taken. The cooperative education of production, education, and research is the road and bridge to achieve comprehensive engineering education, and is an important part of the modern packaging engineering higher education system.

At present, it has established production, learning, and research consortiums with seven packaging companies including Henan Printing Binding Technology Factory and Henan Ruiguang Printing Service Co., Ltd., and together with Shenzhen Kezhi Art Printing Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd. In the screen printing laboratory, the establishment of a consortium allows students to have a base for production internships. At the same time, some of the students' graduation design education links can be jointly completed by schools and consortium units in combination with the actual situation of the company. Through integration of metalworking practice, understanding of internships, production internships, and internships for scientific research projects, integrated education in production, education, and research has achieved good results.