Towards Exploring the Engineering Education Certification on Data Science and Big data Technology Specialty: A Case Study of Suzhou University in China

The specialty of data science and big data technology, as an emerging national strategic specialty in China, aims to cultivate high-level big data talents who have big data thinking and can flexibly employ big data thinking and application technology. At present, the specialty of data science and big data technology is facing a new round of opportunities and challenges in the context of engineering education certification. Thus, it is necessary to comprehensively analyze many problems such as the derailment of talent training and the market, the weak construction of teaching staffs, the imperfect curriculum system and the unreasonable training programs, and put forward practical solutions. In view of the above practical problems, combined with the objectives and needs of engineering education certification, as well as the talent training mode of application-oriented undergraduate colleges, this paper makes exploratory research from the aspects of big data specialty construction scheme, talent training objectives, curriculum system, student practice and training, and professional teacher team construction. The big data specialty construction scheme and ideas proposed in this paper have initially achieved good results in the actual project application and teaching.