Exploration and Practice of Promoting Teaching with Research: Taking Transforming Research Achievements into Experimental Teaching in Agricultural Universities as an Example

Experiments play an important role in the teaching of“Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering”course.Mostly focusing on demonstration or verification of a single principle or phenomenon，traditional experiments resulted in undesirable teaching achievement.To change this status quo and improve comprehensiveness，vividness and innovation of experimental teaching，exploration and practice of transforming research achievements into experimental teaching was carried out.Combining the developed thermal insulation performance test platform for greenhouse covering materials and related industry standards with the teaching of“Fundamentals of Thermal Engineering”course，a comprehensive teaching experiment was hierarchically designed into four phases of pre-experiment preparation，parameter setting，platform operation and thinking of typical problems.Meanwhile，the heat transfer characteristics of greenhouse covering materials such as heat insulating covering were tested，achieving to make abstract concept pictorial，concrete theoretical knowledge，and go deep beneath surface of the problem.It promoted students′ understanding and mastery of teaching contents such as heat transfer process，heat transfer coefficient，thermal resistance，and influencing factors of heat transfer，and promoted integration of experimental teaching，theoretical learning and production practices.Research promoted teaching，which provided a new approach to strengthen cultivation of students′ innovative ability.