Competency-based Framework for Cultivating Innovation Capabilities of Mechanical Graduate Students: One Core, Two Centers and Five Capabilities

Abstract

Under the background of the strategy of ‘Manufacturing Power’ in the new era, the proportion of professional degree postgraduates is increasing, but some problems are reflected in the process of their cultivation. Taking the mechanical professional degree postgraduates as an example, the professional degree postgraduates are facing the challenges of insufficient practical innovation ability and imperfect university-enterprise collaborative cultivation mechanism. In view of the above problems, this paper proposes the innovative cultivation mode of ‘one core, two centres, five cultivation capabilities’, i.e., the core of moral education, the ‘two centres’ drive of collaborative cultivation of university and enterprise tutors, and the ‘five cultivation capabilities’ drive around the application of knowledge, communication and expression, project summarisation, and innovation development, The model is driven by ‘two centres’ through the collaborative training of university and enterprise tutors, and ‘five cultivation capabilities’ of knowledge application, communication expression, project summarisation, innovation development and cycle control, and formed the whole chain training path of ‘value leadership - ability progression - evaluation and closure’ with the guarantee of parallel evaluation system of university and enterprise. The aim is to solve the current problems in the cultivation of master's degree students in mechanical engineering and to improve the engineering practice and innovation ability of students.