To develop a new batch of representative, high-quality engineering master's and doctoral courses centered on deep university-enterprise cooperation, on the morning of April 1, 2025, the Central South University National Graduate College For Elite Engineers held a syllabus and course content optimization and exchange meeting in Conference Room 416, Science and Education Building. The meeting adopted a hybrid online-offline format. Over 20 participants attended, including Wang Yang, Vice Dean of the Beihang University National Graduate College For Elite Engineers; Dai Wujiao, Vice Dean of the Graduate School; Qin Yihong, University Teaching Supervision Expert; Professor Huang Rendong from the School of Resources and Safety Engineering; and other on-campus and off-campus experts and course construction team members. The meeting was chaired by Vice Dean Chen Ailiang of the college.

At this meeting, experts focused on evaluating the teaching content and methods of a batch of core courses. The courses covered frontier fields such as new energy, energy storage technology, and artificial intelligence, including Algorithm and Complexity Theory, Energy Storage System Engineering, Engineering Management, New Energy Smart Factory Design, Monograph on New Energy and Energy Storage Engineering, Principles of Energy Conversion and Storage, Case Analysis of Frontier Energy Technology, and Industrial Economics.

At the meeting, Vice Dean Wang Yang of Beihang University pointed out that, in response to the college's "work-study alternation" cultivation characteristics, he recommended that most course content be co-constructed by universities and enterprises and integrated with real enterprise cases. "It is necessary to transform real enterprise projects into teaching resources to enhance students' engineering practice capabilities," providing effective connection for subsequent enterprise placements. Vice Dean Dai Wujiao of the Graduate School recommended integrating ideological and political elements into teaching methods, while also hoping that faculty would fill out the syllabus according to the Graduate School's unified template, otherwise it could not be directly imported into the system. Professor Qin Yihong emphasized that graduate courses should highlight research orientation and cutting-edge nature, combine frontier engineering practice cases, and focus on expanding graduate students' thinking and capabilities. Course leaders should consider how to transform classroom knowledge delivery from traditional lecture-style to project-based learning, and recommended making full use of AI technology to update and transform courses. Other experts pointed out when distinguishing teaching objectives from teaching requirements that teaching objectives describe the state or level students should achieve in terms of knowledge, capabilities, and qualities, while teaching requirements are the specific demands on students during the process of achieving those objectives.

This meeting was an important measure for the college to deepen the outstanding engineer cultivation system, providing innovative ideas and practical pathways for deepening new engineering curriculum reform. In the future, the Central South University National Graduate College For Elite Engineers will continue to promote deep integration of industry and education, and contribute Central South experience to the cultivation of outstanding engineers in the new era by building a "education-industry-technology" collaborative innovation ecosystem.