Research on the Reform Path of the Teaching Content System for Resource Exploration Engineering Oriented to the Construction of Strong Engineering

Abstract

In the context of accelerating the construction of high-level strong engineering education and implementing the new management norms for national control undergraduate majors, resource exploration engineering, as a key discipline supporting national energy and resource security, the new round of prospecting breakthrough strategy and carbon neutrality goal, is facing an urgent need to transform and upgrade its talent training system. As a traditional engineering major rooted in geological science, resource exploration engineering has long played an irreplaceable role in ensuring national mineral resources supply, promoting geological environment governance and supporting regional economic development. However, with the in-depth advancement of industrial upgrading and technological iteration, the traditional teaching content system of this major is increasingly restricted by a series of prominent problems, such as aging knowledge modules, insufficient integration of digital and intelligent technologies, shallow integration between industry and education, and a single evaluation mechanism. These problems make it difficult for the training effect to match the demand for compound engineering talents with strong practical ability, innovative thinking and digital literacy in the new era. Based on the Outcome-Based Education concept, combined with the standards of new engineering construction and engineering education certification, this paper systematically constructs a reform framework of teaching content system with the characteristics of “four-dimensional integration, three-level progression, digital intelligence empowerment and diversified evaluation”. The reform practice focuses on reconstructing the hierarchical curriculum group, optimizing the whole chain practical teaching system, deeply integrating intelligent exploration technology, improving the multi-dimensional evaluation mechanism and building a collaborative education platform between industry and education, so as to realize the comprehensive upgrading of professional training orientation, knowledge structure and ability training system. The data from three consecutive years of practice in Guizhou Institute of Technology and four other cooperative universities show that after the reform, the proportion of students who can skillfully use 3D geological modeling and AI-assisted geological interpretation has increased from 32.5% to 86.3%; the excellent and good rate of engineering practice ability evaluation has increased from 61.7% to 89.4%; the comprehensive satisfaction of employers has reached 92.8%, and the employment rate of graduates has remained above 95% for a long time. The research results not only effectively solve the practical difficulties in the teaching reform of resource exploration engineering, but also can provide stable theoretical support and replicable practical path for the teaching reform of resource exploration engineering and other geological national control majors under the background of strong engineering, which is of great significance for promoting the high-quality development of national control engineering majors and serving national strategic needs.