• Information+ as the Core of the Emerging Engineering Education: History and Trends ——On the Strategic Choice of Engineering Development in Universities

    Subjects: Management Science >> Other Disciplines of Management Science Subjects: Information Science and Systems Science >> Other Disciplines of Information Science and Systems Science submitted time 2022-07-14

    Abstract: <p>At present, the rapid development of science and technology has brought about drastic changes in economy and society. Engineering in universities has been given more and more expectations in the new era. This paper examines the history of the scientific and technological revolution and engineering education in universities, observes the development trend of the current era, tries to understand the future direction of the times, and believes that the engineering should take information and related disciplines as one of the important development directions to comply with the historical trend of informatization and digitization, to provide a strong foundation for the development of engineering and universities; Develop new engineering disciplines with “information +” as the core, take problems as the guide, focus on intelligent manufacturing and green production, solve practical engineering problems, respond to industrial needs, strengthen integrated development with other disciplines, and improve the overall strength of engineering disciplines in the process of responding to national and social needs; Take “information +” as the engine, use information science as tool, take information literacy as the basic requirement of talent training, and take information thinking and means as the basic tool of researchers in the University, to reshape the talent training system of universities, improve the scientific research ability and level of the whole university, promote the cross integration development of disciplines, and support the construction of first-class discipline system in universities, Improve the overall development of universities.</p>

  • Frontiers and Hotspots Participation of Scientific and Technological Research in China and the (New) First-Tier Cities

    Subjects: Management Science >> Regional Economic Management Subjects: Library Science,Information Science >> Utilization of Information submitted time 2022-07-14

    Abstract: <p>Science and technology are closely related to the development of countries and cities. The participation in frontier research reflects an important aspect of the scientific and technological level of countries and cities. By using the data from the series of reports Research Fronts and Engineering Fronts published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the prominence percentile data from the Elsevier's SciVcl database, this paper analyzes the frontier and hotspots participation in scientific and technological research in China and (new) first-tier cities. The study found that China's participation in the world's frontiers of scientific and technological research has improved tremendously, but the level of research needs to be raised significantly. The country as a whole and (new) first-tier cities are generally more involved in frontier research areas but less pioneering. In terms of research areas, more frontier-led research with good participation was in mathematics/computer science and engineering, chemistry/chemical engineering and materials science, physics, earth sciences, ecology/environmental science and engineering, biological/agricultural science and engineering, and energy and mining engineering. Overall there is more frontier research in engineering and technology than in the natural sciences. In terms of the distribution of subject research in cities, the disciplines of frontier research in (new) first-tier cities are distributed in more traditional disciplines and are less influential, with gaps in performance in subjects where global frontier research is relatively concentrated, such as engineering, biochemistry/genetics and molecular biology and medicine. In terms of geographical distribution, the institutions involved in global frontier research in science and technology in China are mainly located in coastal cities. In terms of performance, with regard to research and engineering fronts, Beijing is outstanding, followed by Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Changsha, Chengdu and Shenzhen; with regard to topic fronts, Beijing stands out regarding publication share, prominence percentile and FWCI, followed by Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and Wuhan; Dongguan, Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Shenzhen and Shenyang stand out regarding prominence percentile, while other cities are average in all aspects.</p>