Several days ago, the Ministry of Education issued The Notification about New Engineering Studies and Practices Projects Recommending , which ratified 612 projects as the first batch of new engineering studies and practices projects , including 202 new engineering comprehensive reform projects and 410 professional reform projects. One ZUST project named Regional University's Professional Assessment Studies and Exploration of New Engineering was selected as one of the regional university's comprehensive reform projects.  

The construction of "new engineering" is a strategic action to respond to a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change. It aims to give overall consideration of “new engineering majors and requirements, to speed up the training of engineering talents in the emerging fields, to reform and upgrade the traditional engineering majors, to actively design the layout of future strategy in the field of talent training, and to explore and establish new concept, standard, mode, method, technology and culture of "new engineering" construction.