This paper proposes the educational reform for the teaching content and method, the experimental teaching, the practice teaching and the examination of the “Fundamental manufacturing technology”, according to the highlights, objectives and principles of the “Education and training program of excellent engineer”(Excellent Program). The students have gotten a better understanding of the FMT course, and their practical and innovative ability have been enhanced, through the reform measures. KEYWORD: Excellent Program; Fundamentals of Mechanical Manufacturing Technology; Educational Reform International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education (SSEMSE 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 1475 been taught together. Thus, the students can easily understand the concept of freedom, and the freedom that should be restrict and needed setting elements when processing a surface, after that the “analysis and calculation of positioning error” in Chapter IV, which is closely related to above information. In this case, the EC students can understand and grasp the knowledge systematically, such as freedom, fixture and position error. In order to cultivate the comprehensive ability of the EC students, we borrowed ideas from foreign teaching methods, encourage the students to give a lecture about the course content. Because Chapter III “Machine Tool” is easy to understand for the students, we decide they talk about this content. After the lecture of each student, the teacher or the students will ask some questions about what he/she introduced, and finally the teachers will give a summary speech about the lectures that given by students, we will explain and supplement the key points, the part that is difficult to understand for the students, and the part that the students lecture had missed. Preparing and giving lecture by the students not only enable them to understand the course content more clearly, but also make them gain the ability of self-study, the expression ability, the ability of reviewing literature, and the ability of analyzing and discussing questions, it can also arouse their interest and enhanced their self-confidence. 3. THE REFORM FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL TEACHING As the high-quality engineering and technical people of China in the future, the EC students must possess the innovative and practical ability. The experimental section of this course offers three types of experiment, they are the cognitive experiment, practical experiment, and design experiment, the cognitive experiment is “the measurement of tool angle”, the practical experiment includes “the measurement of the cutting force and its empirical formula”, “the effect of process system stiffness on machining accuracy”, and “the methods of ensuring the assembly accuracy”, and the design experiment is “ the design of process and modular fixture”. We also purchased new laboratory equipment, such as machining center, cutting tool, force sensors, speed sensors, torque sensors and modular fixtures. Each experiment will be done by the hands-on operation of EC students, “the measurement of tool angle” experiment provides them with a variety of cutting tools, it enable them to understand the typical cutting tools that are commonly used. They will have a clearer understanding of the tool angles by measuring the tool angles of turning tool. Previously, when “the measurement of the cutting force and its empirical formula” experiment, “the effect of process system stiffness on machining accuracy” experiment, and “the methods of ensuring the assembly accuracy” experiment began, all the equipments had been adjusted and operated by us, the students just collected the data by the computer, but now the whole experimental process that includes the connection and adjustment of the equipments, the operating of the machine tool and the collection of the experimental data should be completed by EC students hands-on operate under our supervision. The students began to be able to solve the problem during the experiment, their practical ability and the ability of analyzing and solving problems have been also improved. The purpose of “the design of process and modular fixture” experiment is making the students to obtain the abilities of innovative design and hands-on operation. Each group will be given a typical part, they should arrange the process specification for the part, and finally design a fixture for a working operation, so this experimental course involves Chapter I, V and VI, so it is very comprehensive. However, there were some problems, for example, the content of the experiment is very fresh to the junior students, it is difficult for them to arrange the process and design the fixture by themselves in the lab, because of the limited time, so most cases they need our help. Meanwhile, there are millions of different typical parts, such as shaft, shifting yoke, and housing parts etc., their structure and size are also different, so it is impossible to purchase all of the parts. So as to solve the existing problems, we build the database of typical parts and fixture parts in the computer, so the students can do this virtual experiment on line, and then go to the lad to finish the real experiment[1]. This reform not only can save the money and time, but also can enable the students to explore idea of how to research or working on a engineering project (Xu et al. 2012). 4. THE REFORM FOR THE PRACTICAL TEACHING In order to cultivate the engineering ability and creativity of the students, EP requires schools to train the students by following the common standards and industry standard, the related companies should deeply involved in the training of EP, so we reformed the engineering internship and project laboratory of the course, meanwhile we also cooperate with some companies, send the EC student to take internship in the summer vacation. The engineering internship and project laboratory are both the important practical teaching of the course. During the engineering internship, combining with the classroom knowledge, the EC students go to the workshop to visit the machining process of some parts and the assembly process of some typical