Under the perspective of industry-education integration, this study explores the innovative pathways for the training model of application-oriented talents in chemical engineering

Abstract

As the chemical industry undergoes a transition toward intrinsic safety, green manufacturing, and intelligent operations, the traditional discipline-oriented training model exhibits structural limitations against the backdrop of accelerating technological iteration. This study, grounded in the perspective of industry-education integration, elucidates the logical foundation of such integration from three dimensions: coupling mechanisms, competency structure, and model limitations. It introduces an organizational ecology perspective to analyze the organizational form innovation, resource interaction mechanisms, and operational evolution pathways of the integration community. Subsequently, guided by a competency-based orientation, it proposes a trinity of pathway innovations: the reconstruction of a modular and flexible curriculum system, the integrated cultivation of engineering thinking and innovative capability, and the implementation of full-cycle quality assurance and dynamic evaluation. The research indicates that the underlying logic of industry-education integration is rooted in the structural coupling between the industrial technology system and the disciplinary knowledge system. The construction of the integration community entails an evolutionary process from loose linkage to deep integration, and the competency-based innovation in training pathways can effectively respond to the chemical industry’s inherent demand for interdisciplinary engineering talents.