Aesthetic imperatives for engineering education and healthy personality development

Recent years, people increasingly focus on the aesthetic quality of mass products, as well as their utility, so it is necessary to strengthen the aesthetic education in poly technical universities. Unfortunately, it is remarkable that so little attention has been given by scholars to the aesthetics in engineering education. This paper considers aesthetic education and its application to engineering education and personality development. First, two main reasons that cause the weakness of the aesthetic aspect in engineering education are investigated. Second, the important roles of aesthetic education to help cultivate the healthy personality are analyzed. Finally, this paper proposes concrete strategies of incorporating the aesthetics into the engineering education and the personality development for university students, which are expected to be helpful to improve the effectiveness of the higher education.