To cultivate Taiwanese engineering talent with a strong professional foundation, independent thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovation skills to meet industry transformation and global development needs, this project primarily promotes a new method of engineering education called the "Theme-based curriculum redesign." By rethinking and redesigning the curriculum structure, it integrates courses into "course clusters." Now in its second phase, the project continues to advance this concept while encouraging the incorporation of design thinking into talent development. It aims to create a more flexible, interdisciplinary engineering education environment that nurtures professionals with both a solid foundation and the ability to integrate and apply knowledge to solve real-world problems.
Through the "Cross-disciplinary and Design Thinking on Professional Solutions" project (supported by the Ministry of Education's New Engineering Education Method Experiment and Construction Project), the Department of Civil Engineering has established a thematic curriculum framework spanning from Cornerstone and Keystone to Capstone courses. This curriculum integrates knowledge across multiple domains, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange. By immersing students in real-world engineering scenarios, the program guides them to address complex, multifaceted challenges that encompass environmental impact, sustainability, and humanistic care.