The Project Teaching of the Course Machine Design: Research and Practice

According to the teaching characteristics of the course Machine Design in higher vocational colleges,the authors of this paper have done some teaching reforms.They have rearranged the teaching contents according to a more rational order which facilitates students' understanding and application by integration,reconstruction and optimization of the courses: Machine Drawing,Machine Design and Curriculum Design of Machine Design.They combine the advantages of traditional teaching methods with project teaching method,integrate teaching with learning and doing,and bring into full play the students' subjectivity and the teachers' leading role.Their teaching practice shows that students' ability to analyze and solve problems has been remarkably improved and that the teaching result is satisfactory.