INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATED EDUCATION IN ART AND DESIGN AT TRANSPORTATION-ORIENTED UNIVERSITIES UNDER THE NEW ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK
Keywords:
New engineering, Interdisciplinary integration, Art and design education, Transportation-oriented universities, Application-oriented talent cultivationAbstract
Under the New Engineering framework, art and design programs at transportation-oriented universities face persistent problems, including fragmented curricula and weak collaborative mechanisms, which hinder the cultivation of high-quality, application-oriented interdisciplinary professionals. Guided by the interdisciplinary integration of “design + engineering,” this study employs structural analysis and comparative case analysis to examine four dimensions: educational objectives, curriculum design, project-based practice, and institutional support. It proposes an integrated teaching pathway consisting of a task chain, a course chain, and an output chain; develops a competency map aligned with the needs of the transportation sector; and introduces a model driven by multi-role collaboration and authentic projects. Through horizontal curriculum integration, dual-track collaborative teaching, and university–enterprise co-development, the study initially establishes a replicable and scalable interdisciplinary education system. The findings indicate that building an interdisciplinary curriculum system together with institutional support mechanisms can strengthen the systematic and engineering-oriented character of design education, providing a key pathway for the transformation of design programs and the improvement of talent quality at transportation-oriented universities.References
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