The design ability serves as an important component of the ability of solving complex engineering problems,and its cultivation has been deemed as an indicator of the quality of engineering education.According to the requirements from the engineer-ing education accreditation,a comprehensive and specific support should be provided for accomplishing the goal of the design ability training.Although engineering majors differ in terms of the designed objects,the teaching processes share common problems.In the present study,the reform of the training program for the design ability under the background of engineering education accreditation is investigated.A new training mode is expected to be established.A comprehensive practice is implemented from five aspects,namely normalized teaching,engineering landscape,connection of design and engineering,sense of responsibility,and extension from product designing to system designing.Furthermore,according to the characteristics of the engineering majors in China,suggestions are put forward for the training of the design ability,offering a reference for professional construction of engineering majors in the new era.
engineering education accreditationdesign abilityteaching reformprocess assessmentideological and political edu-cation