Author(s)

JiaSheng Lei¹, QiMing Shi¹, DongYang Geng^1,2*, YongRui Zheng¹, Li Guo¹, XinXin Li¹, ZiXiang Ma¹, Bin Li¹, JianMing Guo³

Affiliation(s)

¹Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050000, Hebei, China.

²Hebei Province Underground Artificial Environment Smart Development and Management Technology Innovation Center, Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang 050000, Hebei, China.

³Hebei Jike Project Management Co., Ltd., Shijiazhuang 050000, Hebei, China.

Corresponding Author

DongYang Geng

ABSTRACT

Driven by national “First-class Undergraduate Program” initiatives and engineering accreditation, engineering management education in China must evolve from fragmented course assembly to a system-oriented approach. Addressing the common bottlenecks of weak measurability of goals, shallow school–enterprise cooperation, fragmented practice scenarios, and incomplete assessment loops, this study proposes a four-chain collaborative model—Goal Chain, Curriculum Chain, Practice Chain, and Assessment Chain—grounded in outcomes-based education (OBE). The model aligns policy and industry needs to produce a competency profile and indicator matrix, restructures curriculum clusters and resources to enable project-based learning and real-industry task embedding, builds tiered practices with dual-supervisor mentoring across campus–enterprise bases and unified digital toolchains, and implements evidence-centered assessments with rubrics, attainment thresholds, and early-warning dashboards to close the quality-improvement loop. A three-year implementation shows significant gains in students’ competencies in digital construction (BIM), contract and risk governance, process control, and collaborative communication; increased involvement of industrial mentors; faster course updates; and improved graduate employability and job fit. The results demonstrate a viable pathway of “evidence for improvement, projects for capability, collaboration for quality,” offering a replicable solution for first-class program construction in engineering management.

KEYWORDS

Engineering management; First-class undergraduate program; Industry–education integration; Collaborative education

CITE THIS PAPER

JiaSheng Lei, QiMing Shi, DongYang Geng, YongRui Zheng, Li Guo, XinXin Li, ZiXiang Ma, Bin Li, JianMing Guo. Practice exploration of industry–education integration and collaborative education for engineering management under the national first-class program construction. World Journal of Educational Studies. 2025, 3(6): 27-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjes3086.

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