In recently, Chinese engineering education is being paid more attention in the world for its large scale and that China has made much achievement in the area of engineering. However, the world knows Chinese engineering education no more than China understanding world’s engineering education. It is necessary to introduce more about Chinese engineering education to our colleagues abroad.

Under the topic of Engineering Education in China, I will give a general picture about its scale, and compare it with in other countries. I will discuss the structure of engineering education including levels, sorts and subjects. Chinese engineering education has not only oscillated between scientific and applied orientation, just like it in other countries, but also been affected by two patterns from Europe and US. It is a part of reasons that causes a model of training engineers in China today. This will be the key point of my presentation. Also I will describe what Chinese engineering education is doing on national and university’s level, and what my faculty members are studying about engineering education.

Qing Lei is the professor and the director of Institute of Higher Education at Beihang University (formerly Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, BUAA). He is also Chinese Academy of Engineering Center of Engineering Education in BUAA. Lei earned Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Education and Ph. D of Management, and had serviced as the deputy director of Office of Academic Affairs for five years in the same university. He has focused on engineering education for many years. His research interests include policy and developing strategy of engineering education, and model of training engineers. Lei has been servicing as the general secretary of Chinese Society for Engineering Education and the deputy editor-in-chief of Journal of Higher Engineering Education Research since 2004. He is conducting to write the Annual Report on Development of China’s Engineering Education.