Building a Smart Curriculum for Core Engineering Courses through Teacher-Student-AI Interaction: The Case of Mechanics of Materials

China’s national push for educational digitalization has made a lot of application-oriented universities rethink how they teach core engineering courses. They are trying to make these courses smarter, and that has become a big part of how they reform talent training now. Mechanics of Materials is a required course for mechanical engineering students, but teaching it well has always been hard. The theories are abstract, and they often feel cut off from real engineering work. Students come in with