Reform and Practice of the Graduation Practice in Safety Engineering

Practice teaching is an important segment of engineering education in university and has a significant effect on the comprehensive quality and employment competitiveness of the graduates. Graduate field practice is the most important part of the practice teaching. The graduate field practice, which is the comprehensive summary for four years' university study, requires students to integrate basic theory with expertise, by thinking, analyzing and solving problems independently, so as to develop the capability of working independently and scientific research. Based on the instruction on the graduation practice of several session graduates majoring in safety engineering, this paper gives an introduction to how to improve teaching reform and to enhance qualities of field teaching. Practice teaching is an important segment of engineering education in university, and has a significant effect on the comprehensive quality and employment competencies of graduates. Graduate practice is one of the most important approaches of the practice teaching, for training graduate in thinking, analyzing and solving problem independently on basis of gained fundamental and professional knowledge. The graduates can develop their capability to work independently and perform the scientific research through graduate practice. In this paper, we review our past teaching experiences in graduate practice and discussed the reform teaching for improving the quality of practice teaching. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the Capital University of Economics and Business, China Academy of Safety Science and Technology.