Mechanical design, manufacturing and automation is also a hot major in economic development. However, when it comes to mechanical engineering, people will inevitably think of workers covered in oil stains and holding cold and hard "iron bumps" in their hands. In this case, many people will flinch from mechanical majors and choose some popular majors instead, such as economic management.
Our large-scale industry is gradually recovering. Experts said that in recent years, China's large-scale industries have gradually recovered, and the demand for modern mechanical design and management skilled talents has gradually increased. In recent years, the employment rate has remained above 90%, and the structure and region of graduates' one-time employment are good. In the future, the demand for mechanical talents is still huge, and CNC talents with development ability will become the object of competition for enterprises. In recent years, the supply-demand ratio of mechanical design, manufacturing and processing machinery professionals is also very high. Students majoring in mechanical engineering mainly study mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, material forming and control engineering, industrial design, process equipment and control engineering.
Many students have misunderstood the employment prospects of this kind of machinery major, and think that the counterpart work of this kind of machinery major does not look so "decent". In fact, they all ignore the adaptability of mechanical specialty, such as its application in equipment maintenance, numerical control maintenance, environmental protection equipment design and other fields. At the same time, mechanical specialty also involves many interdisciplinary subjects, and the accumulation of interdisciplinary knowledge provides a strong guarantee for students' cross-disciplinary and cross-industry employment. This kind of mechanical specialty requires students to have keen sensibility, unique creativity, rich imagination and strong practical ability.
Not all mechanical students deal with hard machines. In fact, not all mechanical majors deal with hard machines. For example, the major of industrial design machinery is an art related to machinery. Some people think that "industrial design is a simple way of packaging". Secondly, industrial design is a mechanical specialty, constantly innovating the planning and design of modern industrial products, product structures and industrial structures. The transformation of scientific research and technological achievements into products and commodities is the core process of meeting needs and benefiting the environment, the starting point of technological innovation and knowledge innovation, and the systematic method of mutual transformation of products, commodities, materials and waste products.
The newly-established industrial design major is to cultivate advanced applied professionals who have the basic theory, knowledge and application ability of industrial design and can engage in industrial product modeling design, visual communication design, environmental design and teaching and scientific research in enterprises, institutions, mechanical design departments and scientific research institutes. It is difficult to quantify the proportion of industrial design in the value of a commodity because it is a soft value. There are similar examples in foreign countries. For example, there is a saying in the United States that if an enterprise invests in the upgrading of technical equipment, the income of its industrial design will be five times that of its investment. So the importance of industrial designers is self-evident.
At present, many large foreign enterprises have large design institutions like Toshiba in Japan, and there are hundreds of industrial designers. Haier group, a large domestic enterprise, hires foreign industrial design experts with high salaries and invests more than 80 million yuan in R&D and design every year. This kind of high investment brings high returns, as evidenced by the extensive sales of Haier products in the global market. It can be seen that the demand for industrial design talents in the market is increasing, and industrial design is paid more and more attention by the market and plays a decisive role.
In addition to teaching and marketing, the employment direction of mechanics major usually includes: production director (production supervisor), logistics management, equipment management, quality management, project management, electromechanical product development, mechanical product development, hydraulic product development, instrument development, weapon development, automobile industry, environmental protection equipment development, mine equipment design, mold design and manufacturing, mechanical manufacturing technologist, numerical control engineer, etc.