Reconstruction and Practice of Civil Engineering Materials Experiment Course under the Background of New Engineering: Integration of Virtual-Physical Fusion and Industry-Education Collaboration

Abstract

Under the background of new engineering education, which focuses on the talent cultivation goals of “innovation ability, engineering literacy, and interdisciplinary integration”, the traditional civil engineering materials experiment course is faced with the dual dilemmas of “disconnection between virtual and physical aspects, and separation between teaching and industry”. It is difficult to meet the needs of the modern civil engineering industry for high-quality technical talents. This paper proposes a curriculum reform framework of “virtual-physical fusion + industry-education collaboration”. By constructing a three-stage experimental teaching process of “virtual simulation preview - physical experiment verification - industrial project practice”, and integrating the tripartite resources of “colleges and universities - enterprises - scientific research institutions”, the curriculum reconstruction is realized from four dimensions: teaching content, teaching mode, assessment system, and platform construction. Taking Qingdao City University as an example, this course is a professional basic course. It mainly covers the basic composition, technical performance, quality requirements, and inspection methods of common civil engineering materials. The course focuses on the properties, preparation, application methods, uses, and testing methods of civil engineering materials. Through learning, students can be familiar with the properties of common civil engineering materials, know how to select common civil engineering materials, and understand certain knowledge of storage and preservation; they can reasonably select and correctly use materials according to different engineering conditions, establish a good engineering awareness, and have the basic ability to analyze engineering quality problems caused by materials and put forward corresponding improvement measures, as well as the skills to conduct performance testing and quality evaluation of common civil engineering materials in engineering; students should have basic professional literacy and a good sense of work discipline, a scientific attitude of being serious and careful in work, a certain ability of teamwork, and be able to reasonably divide work according to work tasks, help each other, and complete tasks collaboratively. This reform plan provides a replicable and promotable practical path for the quality improvement and upgrading of the civil engineering materials experiment course under the background of new engineering.