1. Introduction
As a compulsory course in civil engineering, the teaching objectives of bridge engineering include but are not limited to cultivating students' basic understanding of the stress characteristics of various bridge types and components, mastering the structural principles of large-span, medium and small bridges, and new bridge structures, and becoming familiar with the design characteristics and application scope of common construction methods. As the core course of transportation characteristic universities under the background of large-scale infrastructure and intelligent transportation, its classroom teaching effect has a profound impact on the cultivation of students' engineering and technical abilities [
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With the development of the times, there has been a diverse demand for theoretical, practical, complex, and landscape oriented teaching in bridge engineering [
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"Putting students at the center" is the core foothold of humanistic education theory [
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We are in an era full of expectations and tolerance for innovation, conceptualization, and breakthrough, and the transformation of education and teaching is imperative. Under such an impact, it is necessary and worth pondering how to implement the student-centered teaching philosophy and how to formulate evaluation standards for the teaching ability of university teachers. Bridge Engineering is an important core compulsory course in civil engineering. Through long-term teaching practice and evaluation statistics, student feedback, and survey questionnaires, the team has found that the course has a deep theoretical foundation but is disconnected from practice, the textbook is rigorous but not flexible enough, and the objective learning situation of students who are eager for knowledge but mechanically memorize and calculate can bring the following pain points:(1) The problem of insufficient analytical ability in practical bridge engineering is mainly reflected in the lack of spontaneous cognitive construction knowledge system ability, weak modeling ability in real-world bridge engineering, and lack of independent analysis and judgment ability in software calculation, resulting in students lacking analytical ability in practical engineering.(2) The problem of weak thinking in bridge design due to integration and transfer is mainly reflected in unclear logical thinking in bridge structural component design, chaotic composition of bridge structural system design framework, and weak global perspective in bridge engineering conceptual design, resulting in students staying in a stage of confusion with knowledge.(3) The lack of flexible and innovative bridge aesthetic literacy is mainly reflected in the lack of emphasis on shape selection in the structural analysis process, inadequate analysis of variability in the structural calculation process, and lack of active landscape awareness in the conceptual design process, leading to students' lazy habit of valuing force calculation and neglecting aesthetic shape.
In order to address the significant issues of teacher and student role positioning, teacher teaching design, and student learning ability in the traditional bridge engineering teaching process, the course team proposed a teaching model based on the holographic concept on the basis of teaching practice, and evaluated the teaching effect using the intelligent Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) evaluation method [
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