Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Policies and Major Areas of China’s Engineering Education Reforms at National and Institutional Levels.- Chapter 3: Developing a Synergistic Approach to Engineering Education through University-industry Collaborative Education.- Chapter 4: Striving for High Caliber Performance through Four Quality Assurance Approaches.- Chapter 5: Innovating Instructional Practices in and outside Classrooms.- Chapter 6: Case Studies.- Chapter 7: Impact, Challenges and Prospects of the Engineering Education Reform.- Chapter 8: Drawing the Strands together: A Systematic Analysis.

About the Author

Dr. Tengteng Zhuang is currently an assistant professor/lecturer at the Institute of Higher Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, which is one of the leading institutions in education science in Asia and the world at large. Having a dual background of engineering and education, Dr. Zhuang is focused on issues pertaining to the quality of higher education research, especially with a focus on STEM higher education in the Chinese context. He has published articles on both teaching and learning in the field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Chinese universities, covering topics of students’ program satisfaction, students’ course satisfaction, students’ comprehensive educational process, faculty members’ teaching agency, factors influencing instructors’ delivery of contextual instruction, structural configurations such as university statutes that shape university faculty members’ work, China’s engineering education reform policies, and other engineering policy-related issues such as how Chinese education could be advanced by evidence-based educational research. His publications have appeared in various SSCI journals, such as Higher Education Research & Development, Cambridge Journal of Education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, European Journal of Education, Asia Pacific Education Review, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, and CSSCI journals such as East China Normal University Journal (Education Science), Tsinghua Journal of Education, and Journal of Higher Education Management. Dr. Zhuang's recent book is entitled Engineering Teaching in China's Higher Education: A Social Realistic Approach published by Routledge.