Honors Educating on Engineers in the Future

Abstract

Elite education has been transferring to popular education due to the massive enrollment expansion of higher education in China since 1998, and engineering education of undergraduate in China has been becoming mostly in favor of intensive hyper-specialize while lack of essential general education. Honors engineering education, a forefront of innovations in engineering education, has expected to serve as the foundation for reform of undergraduate education. As a result, Yingcai Honors College of UESTC (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) has been established as a laboratory for reform of engineering education of undergraduates. Program introduction, student selection, enriched curriculum, academic training, and other administrative details are described in the paper.