Plan, Construction and Application of Railway Training Base

Under the background that the speed of railway is greatly improved and railway transport lines become increasingly busy, students from our university have encountered numerous difficulties in field practice and the quality of practice teaching is restrained by objective conditions. In order to solve these problems, our university plans and constructs high quality railway training base which covers all professional fields in railway by combining physical objects with stimulation ones. In order to make full use of railway training base in practical teaching, several measures are taken to ensure teaching quality, such as adapting delicacy management and employing front-line technicians. Besides that, the application of training base is greatly promoted from four teaching aspects. In 2015, the number of interns who learnt in the training center was over 5500, which achieves good teaching effects. The plan and construction of railway training base is a successful trial in our development into a well-known featured university in China. 1. Necessity of constructing Railway Training Base In current situation, university students always have weak engineering practice capacity and social adaptability[1], which is the short plank in our national advanced education. In order to improve the quality of advanced education, Ministry of Education has issued documents No.1 and No.2 in 2007, which stresses that advanced schools shall strengthen practical teaching reform, focus on students’ practice capacity and innovation spirit and improve quality of students[2,3]. In “the National Outline for Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020), it is proposed that “students’ participation in scientific researches shall be supported and practical teaching shall be strengthened”[4]. It has become an important way to further improve quality of talents by strengthening practical teaching and students’ engineering practical capacity[5,6,7]. Shijiazhuang Tiedao University has clear railway features and the major settings and future jobs of graduates are mainly about railway construction and transportation. Therefore, in order to equip students with common sense and professional knowledge of railway, according to training plan, students of all majors are arranged with internships and experiments related to railway in practical teaching. In the past, to finish railway internship tasks, instructors always led interns to railway field or related enterprises. In recent years, in order to further improve teaching quality, our university pays much attention on practical teaching and proposes higher standards for practical teaching quality. Facing new requirements, traditional railway internship cannot totally meet the development of current education. The main problems are as follows: (1) With rapid development of national railway technology, the railway speed has been improved for six times. The speed of common railway train has reached 200km/h and the speed of high speed railway train has achieved 350km/h. With railway lines becoming increasingly busy, there is great potential safety hazard for students’ internship in railway field. (2) Railway transportation has strict requirement for related work because any negligence or mistakes may cause serious accidents. However, the internship of students in the railway field may disturb normal work of front-line workers, which may further affect safe operation of railway International Conference on Humanity, Education and Social Science (ICHESS 2016) © 2016. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 162