Core Elements of Project-based Learning in Experimental Teaching under the Background of “Emerging Engineering Education”

The talent cultivation under “Emerging Engineering Education” has put forward higher goals in discipline vision, practical ability, and comprehensive quality. Experimental teaching plays a significant role in the talent cultivation of emerging engineering education. Project-based Learning (PBL) is conducive to comprehensively cultivating students’ practical ability and personal quality. However, the connotation of PBL in project design and experimental teaching practice still needs to be expanded. Based on the characteristics of engineering experiment teaching, this paper puts forward that six core elements of PBL, namely the project teaching method, should have six core elements such as openness, serialization, modularization, individuation, standardization, and informatization. Furthermore, taking the series of energy materials experiments of materials science and engineering specialty as an example, the teaching implementation process of experimental project design and preparation, management and guidance, evaluation and reflection is explained in detail by focusing on the three stages of experimental projects, i.e. preparation, implementation, and evaluation, and the guiding role of the above core elements in experimental teaching is expounded.