Design and Practice of Challenging Experimental Courses in Complex Engineering Problems for the New Engineering Disciplines

The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China responds to the new engineering disciplines reform actively, continues to optimize undergraduate training programs, and establishes various project-based courses, achieving the goals of integrated undergraduate education over four years with progressively challenging objectives. The course “Design and Production of Sounding Rockets” is a challenging, comprehensive and innovative experimental course offered to third-year undergraduates. The core objective of this course is to cultivate the ability to solve complex engineering problems. Tailored to the realities of undergraduate education, the course deeply analyzes the complexity of sounding rocket systems. Based on this analysis, it creates improved experimental teaching scenarios centered around complex engineering challenges, fostering an immersive project-based learning experience. By employing improved course organization methods, a new “learning community” is established, which effectively promotes a student-centered and active learning model.