航空工程的先驱者、美国加州理工学院冯·卡门教授有句名言:“科学家研究已有的世界,工程师创造未来的世界。”工程师给人类提供一个什么样的生存环境,应该是我们每一个人都关心的问题。工程教育正是培养这种工程技术人才的专门教育。在当今世界,科学技术发展与更新越来越快,工程技术对经济与社会的推动作用越来越重要,而工程技术人才的培养直接决定工程技术的水平和发展的速度,决定国家的工业竞争力。因此,世界各国特别是工业发达国家都在大力推进工程教育的改革与发展,力争培养出更高质量的人才,以保持在竞争中的有利地位。该文认为,我国正处于工业化过程之中,来自国际竞争的压力越来越大,能否尽快培养与造就一大批高质量、多层次的工程技术人才,就成为提高国家工业竞争力、实现强国之梦的关键。——编者 A pioneer in aeronautical engineering, professor von Carmen of the California Institute of Technology has a famous saying: “Scientists study the existing world and engineers create a world of the future.” What kind of living environment should engineers provide human beings? A matter that everyone is concerned about. Engineering education is precisely to train this kind of engineering and technical personnel specialized education. In today’s world, the development and renewal of science and technology are getting faster and faster, and the role of engineering and technology in promoting economy and society is more and more important. The cultivation of engineering and technical personnel directly determines the level of engineering technology and the speed of development and determines the industrial competition in the country force. Therefore, all countries in the world, especially industrialized countries, are making great efforts to promote the reform and development of engineering education and strive to cultivate more qualified personnel so as to maintain their advantageous position in the competition. The article believes that our country is in the process of industrialization, pressure from international competition is getting bigger and bigger, as soon as possible to cultivate and bring up a large number of high-quality, multi-level engineering and technical personnel, it will become a national industrial competitiveness and achieve power The key to the dream. --editor