Teaching Reform of Database Course for “Outstanding engineers” Education in China

The database is an important software course of the Electronics and Information specialty. In order to solve the problem of traditional teaching, a teaching reform was carried out in the Electronics and Information specialty of Yangtze University, based on the “Plan for educating and training outstanding engineers” (P4ETOE) and “Strategic Emerging Pillar Industry Project” (SEPIP) projects. The teaching reform focused on three aspects: the theory teaching, the practice teaching, and assessment method. The teaching practicesof the P4ETOE and SEPIP experimental classes of Yangtze University, China show that our teaching reform is effective and successful. It comprehensively enhanced the students ’practical engineering abilities and innovation abilities, cultivating them to be outstanding electronic engineers for the future.