In order to further strengthen the integration of production and education, improve the training quality of civil aviation specific professionals, and minimize the impact of COVID-19 on teaching, during the winter holiday of 2023, the class of 2020 in the new engineering experiment major of Flight Vehicle Propulsion Engineering specialty have set off for Beijing Huapu Aeroengine Customer Training Center （CTC） and started the practice activities of civil aviation enterprises. This practice is arranged in the only practical teaching institution in China set up by Pratt & Whitney, an internationally renowned engine manufacturer, Huapu Aero-engine Customer Training Center Co., Ltd., which is also the first engine model maintenance training institution approved by the Flight Standards Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The instructors of CTC have more than 10 years of experience as senior civil aviation maintenance engineers and have the industry's top strength and rich practical experience.
The practice focuses on improving the handling and management ability of complex engineering and technical problems in engine operation and maintenance. In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the internship task, the Engine Department of the College of Aeronautical Engineering carried out a thorough arrangement before carrying out the internship project. The teacher in charge of the internship course communicated with the enterprise faculty in depth, which developed a detailed content arrangement and assessment method. Two teachers, Jin Yuyang and Feng Zhengxing, were dispatched to participate in the teaching activities, which ensured the smooth implementation of enterprise practice activities.
During the implementation of the enterprise practice project, the students carried out the system familiarization of PW1100G and the latest model of Pratt & Whitney engine. They also did the work on the system identification against the real engine in the engine workshop and combined with the actual case to carry out the system scheme design related to the engine condition monitoring, performance analysis, cost analysis, overhaul plan, etc. involved in the engine fleet management. It has developed practical operation projects such as V2500 engine parts disassembly and assembly, PW4000 series engine system calibration, engine borescope inspection and damage analysis, which has broadened students' knowledge and enabled them to understand the actual work in civil aviation maintenance in a safe environment. The assessment of this internship has designed a group practice project that runs through the whole process. At the beginning of the internship, the group task has been arranged. During the internship, the necessary knowledge of the task has been introduced to guide students to learn independently. Students have studied the solution of the task content in groups and completed the group task in their spare time. Students not only have to apply the professional knowledge learned in the internship to group tasks, but also have to consider non-technical factors such as time, cost and inventory in the practical engineering involved. It improves students' ability to solve complex engineering problems. On the last day of the internship, each group made a detailed task report. The faculty of CTC unit fully affirmed the students' work achievements and pointed out the direction for improvement. Wang Jingfeng, the student representative, showed his experience of a week's internship through a short video. Shen Weifeng, the class president, said: "During one week's full and wonderful internship, I fully felt the corporate culture of civil aviation enterprises such as safety, standardization and efficiency, and had a strong interest in the civil aviation engine maintenance process, which will move towards a higher goal in the future." Qu Chungang, the director of the Engine Department, Zhang Ying, the class instructor, Wang Xuan, the teacher in charge of the internship course, attended and observed the reports of each group.
Under the leadership of CAUC & AEC, all the teachers of Flight Vehicle Propulsion Engineering will further do a good job in the research and practice of the training mechanism of innovative talents in the specialty specific to civil aviation, and do a good job in teaching students according to their aptitude, classification excellence, comprehensively improve the level of practical teaching and teaching effect.
