Author(s)

Jiankai Yang ¹, Huimin Shen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Jungong Road 516, Shanghai, 200093, China

Corresponding Author

Huimin Shen

ABSTRACT

With the rapid advancement of advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing (AM) has emerged as a core disruptive technology widely applied in aerospace, biomedical, and automotive industries, generating a surging demand for high-quality applied talents. Nevertheless, the traditional teaching model of AM major in Chinese universities generally suffers from outdated curriculum, insufficient practical training, and weak engineering competence of faculty, resulting in a mismatch between talent output and industrial requirements. Grounded in the concept of industry-education integration, this paper analyses the key dilemmas in current AM teaching, and proposes targeted reform strategies covering curriculum system, faculty development, training bases, teaching modes, and evaluation mechanisms. This study aims to provide references for improving AM talent cultivation quality and deepening the integration of higher education and industrial development.

KEYWORDS

Additive Manufacturing; Teaching Reform; Industry-Education Integration; Curriculum System; Evaluation Mechanisms

CITE THIS PAPER

Jiankai Yang, Huimin Shen. Career Research on Teaching Reform of Additive Manufacturing Major Based on Industry-Education Integration. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2026). Vol. 9, No. 5, 103-107. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2026.090513.

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