Abstract: Frontier professional courses are a necessary supplement to basic courses and an effective extension of subject professional courses in the undergraduate curriculum system. Students can get the development trends of frontier science and technology and improve innovation ability and practical ability through the study of this course. Relying on the background of emerging engineering education and according to the talent training objectives of mechanical design and manufacturing and automation major in the school, this paper explores and practices the teaching reform of lectures on frontiers of the discipline from the aspects of teaching content, teaching methods, assessment and evaluation system and curriculum construction, and deeply discusses the relevant new reform measures. The research results provide a certain reference for the teaching reform of relevant frontier professional courses.

Key words: Mechanical design manufacture and automation, Emerging engineering education, Lectures on frontiers of the discipline, Teaching reform