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Improvement Path of Engineering Practical Competence under Digital-Intelligent and Art-Science Micro-integration Mode: Empirical Research on Local Application-Oriented Universities

Author(s)

Qiongfei Wu1,*, Yuan Wang1, Cancan Li1, Xubing Zhang2

Affiliation(s)

1School of Intelligent Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Design and Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Against the backdrop of the digital economy and the construction of a "Design Capital", the demand for "technology + art + engineering" compound talents in the digital creative industry is increasingly urgent. However, local application-oriented universities generally face dilemmas such as insufficient integration depth of arts and sciences, lagging application of digital intelligence tools, and high thresholds for school-enterprise cooperation. This study conducted an empirical survey of 342 students from three colleges of a local application-oriented university in Wuhan, and diagnosed three core gaps: the "one-way prominence" of digital intelligence tool capabilities, the serious lack of interdisciplinary practice opportunities, and the extreme shortage of project practical experience. On this basis, this study proposes the "micro-integration" theory, constructs a "three-tier progressive open-source tool teaching + biweekly micro-project driven + school-enterprise micro-collaboration" engineering practice training model, and conducts a one-year teaching reform pilot. The results show that the model has significantly improved students' engineering practice capabilities: the usage rate of core open-source tools has increased from 20% to 52%, the participation rate of interdisciplinary projects has increased from 38.89% to 85%, and the compliance rate of engineering practice capabilities has increased by 22 percentage points. This study provides a low-cost, high-efficiency replicable sample for local application-oriented universities to promote the integration of digital intelligence and arts and sciences.

Keywords

Digital Intelligence; Arts-Science Integration; Micro-Integration; Engineering Practice Ability; Open-Source Tools; Local Application-Oriented University

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