During the 2018 Autumn Semester, Tianjin University revised the postgraduate training program, updated the engineering course content, and built the first 21 new projects and courses for the development of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Engineering Education (3E). These projects and courses will be open to all the postgraduates and undergraduates in the future who are qualified to be postgraduates through the cut-through education program for undergraduates and postgraduates at the university. The reform will break the "wall" between different disciplines, transfer scientific research results into teaching courses, covering the whole university and given priority. The first batch of courses offered 24 classes, and 3,319 graduate students actively took part in selecting these new courses.

Course content and design are the basic requirements for student training. Reconstructing the course curriculum is one of the important tasks of 3E. The first batch of new engineering courses will focus on cutting-edge leadership and interdisciplinary teaching content, and bring the latest developments in industry and technology, the latest requirements for student training, and the latest achievements of the academics' research into the teaching process. In teaching methods, more emphasis will be placed on methodological teaching as well as the different approaches of different disciplines. As a result, students can broaden their academic horizons, enhance their sense of innovation, and improve their research capabilities.

The 21 public courses for emerging engineering education are divided into four major modules: foundation, computing, manufacturing and comprehensive classes. Among them, there are basic courses such as Basic Applied Mathematics, Special Lectures on Modern Physics and Quantum Mechanics for Engineering Science. Also, advanced courses in AI and advanced manufacturing such as Artificial Intelligence Foundations, Big Data Analysis Theory and Algorithms, Intelligent Networks are included. In addition, there are a number of comprehensive courses such as Industrial Standards and Standardization, Modern Marine Science, Science and Technology Paper Typesetting Technology.

Translating the research results of teachers into teaching content fully embodies innovation, crossover and integration. It is the common characteristic of these courses, and also reflects the important features of new engineering.

In the view of Professor Ming Dong, an instructor for the course, Neuroscience and Engineering, current scientific and engineering development is completely different from when he was in college more than 20 years ago. The increased cross-over and fusion among disciplines needs classes which are future-oriented and full of imagination. In fact, the team he instructs is a multidisciplinary combination of students majoring in Machinery, Medicine, Automation, AI, Materials among others. Even students of Architecture, Management and Education are involved in the design and implementation of the research experiments. The "Special Lecture on Modern Physics" was completed by six teachers from different orientations in the same discipline. “Modern physics is very important for new innovative thinking,”as Professor Ke Hongwei, the person in charge of the course said. According to him, in view of the rich content of modern physics and the difficulties in comprehensive study, he and six young and middle-aged teachers of the college will jointly build a condensed modern physics course, as they strive to lay a solid theoretical foundation for engineering graduate students. The integration is more obvious in courses such as Intelligent Networked Automotive Technology. This course was jointly created by seven professors from different academic backgrounds such as mechanics, automation, computing, and precision instruments. The professors are trying to directly translate their scientific research results into teaching content.

Facing Emerging Engineering Education construction, Tianjin University will continue to explore further curriculum reform, professional and discipline construction and strive to build a major based on industrial requirements and create a new structure of engineering majors. Teachers will change their methods in accordance with students' interests and innovative engineering methods and means. By making full use of internal and external resources, they will create an open and new integrated system of engineering education, and actively apply it to new technologies, new industries, as well as new economic development.