"Student Designs Shine: Electronic Product Course Projects Go Beyond the Classroom!"

The Electronic Product Design course at Shenzhen Technology University, recognized as a provincial-level first-class undergraduate course by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education in 2023, is led by Professor Li Liquan. During the first semester of the 2023-2024 academic year, 73 students from the 2021 cohort of the Industrial Design major enrolled in the course. Throughout the program, students centered their work on "innovation-driven market needs," closely linking design implementation with market demands, fostering a dynamic learning environment where every student strived for practical outcomes and quality efficiency.

During the final project defense, 12 enterprises were invited to evaluate student work—5 attended on-site, while 7 participated online. Among the 73 projects, 21 were shortlisted by companies. Ultimately, seven innovative designs—including Huang Binger and Guo Yichun’s "ONV Plastic-Shell Switch, Smart Compressed Trash Bin, Tree Safety Alarm Detector, and Self-Powered Contactless Smart Door Lock"—achieved confidential technical transfers. Students independently signed technical secret transfer contracts with enterprises, generating cumulative transfer fees exceeding 10,000 yuan, all of which have been disbursed to the students.

In October 2023, Professor Li Liquan published a signed article titled "Cultivating Innovative Talents Through Course Outcome Transformation-Oriented Education" in Guangming Daily, a central party newspaper. The Electronic Product Design course exemplifies this transformative teaching reform, anchoring its pedagogy on integrating "industry projects into the classroom." By incorporating real-world corporate projects as practical learning content and adopting a "comprehensive course evaluation + major incentive assessment for course outcome transformation," the program cultivates students’ abilities in innovative integration, engineering design, technical collaboration, and social responsibility.

Guided by the "high-score incentive assessment for industrial transformation of course outcomes," students not only earn outstanding academic grades but also secure substantial technical transfer fees from enterprises. This approach significantly enhances their proactive learning, breakthrough thinking, and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills. Through multifaceted initiatives—such as inviting enterprises to observe project defense roadshows, hosting innovation design exhibitions, organizing employment and internship matching fairs, facilitating open auctions for design outcomes, and entering designs into renowned domestic and international competitions—the course ensures comprehensive channels for transforming innovative outcomes.

Beyond the Electronic Product Design course, other programs at the university are progressively adopting the "high-score incentive assessment for 

industrial transformation of course outcomes" as an evaluation benchmark, further solidifying the institution’s commitment to bridging academia and industry.