From March 14th to 17th, the Air Transportation program and the Maintenance of Aviation Equipment program in School of Air Transportation SUES were reviewed online by the program accreditors of AABI. Yu Tao, president of SUES, Xia Chunming, vice president, and responsible persons from various related departments attended the accreditation review.
On behalf of SUES, President Yu Tao welcomed the AABI accreditation team, and introduced the strategy of SUES: “improve the university reputation with talents, characteristics, and internationalization”. He said that it is the only way for the high-quality development of the University to carry out program accreditation and improve the teaching quality. Only when the quality of each undergraduate program is improved can the educational aim of All Students Thrive be realized. Carrying out program accreditation is the common task of all relevant departments of the University, which requires close cooperation and a strong guarantee of all departments. Attention should be paid not only to the accreditation results but also to the accreditation process. By comparing the accreditation standards, we can find problems and deficiencies and make continuous improvements, so as to achieve the goal of building high-level programs.
Vice President Xia Chunming briefly introduced SUES to the AABI accreditation team, pointing out that SUES is guided by the needs of modern industrial development and takes the strategic alliance of industry, university and research as the platform. It cooperates with industries and enterprises in education, innovation, and employment.
Dean He Fajiang introduced the course of university-enterprise cooperation of the school in recent 30 years, as well as the current situation in programs setting, faculty, teaching and scientific research achievements, talent training, and industry-university research cooperation.
The accreditation team visited the campus, library, and laboratories of the two programs by live video, and had individual interviews with President Yu Tao, Vice President Xia Chunming, and Director Chen Hao. They also interviewed the Dean, Vice Dean of teaching, principals of two programs, laboratory directors, and tutors of the School of Air Transportation, so as to understand in detail the concept, talent training orientation, teaching quality assurance, professional construction, and student work of the school. They communicated with the directors of the admission office, library, and teaching quality office, and had a detailed understanding of the University's recruitment publicity, infrastructure, and teaching quality monitoring. They had a collective exchange with the full-time faculty and student representatives of the two programs, and consulted the teaching materials such as professional training plan, safety management system, and records, all kinds of teaching evaluation materials and graduation papers. The accreditation team learned about the student status, teaching objectives, graduation requirements, curriculum system, teaching staff, supporting conditions, continuous improvement of the two programs through a variety of channels, and conducted a comprehensive review of the Air Transportation program and the Maintenance of Aviation Equipment program.
A feedback meeting was held on March 18. All members of the accreditation team, President Yu Tao, Vice President Xia Chunming, relevant functional departments, heads of colleges, and teachers' representatives attended the feedback meeting.
On behalf of the accreditation team, Chairman Guy Smith gave feedback on ten aspects of students, teaching objectives, graduation requirements, curriculum system, faculty, facilities, equipment and services, organizational structure and support, aviation safety culture, university-enterprise cooperation, and sustainable improvement, including both advantages and disadvantages. The accreditation team fully approves of the effectiveness of the two programs, pointing out that the students are full of vitality, initiative, and have a clear understanding and great confidence in future employment and career needs. They believe that the program objectives are closely related to the talent training requirements of the state and industry, and closely fit with the university’s positioning; they fully approve of the whole-process tutor system, teaching quality management system, and university-enterprise cooperation mechanism. The teaching activities of these two programs can be carried out according to the concept of OBE and importance should be attached to sustainable improvement. At the same time, the accreditation team also pointed out that the two programs still have some shortcomings in the breadth and depth of university-enterprise cooperation, the implementation of sustainable improvement measures, and the construction of safety culture management system.
President Yu Tao expressed his gratitude for the work of the team, saying that the faculty of the programs will make continuous improvement according to the feedback of review and the existing problems, so as to achieve the goal of building high-level programs.
Dean He Fajiang thanked the accreditation team for their feedback and suggestions and said that the School will thoroughly implement the AABI accreditation concept in the whole process of talent training and continuously improve the teaching quality.
