Construction and Practice of a Faculty Teaching Innovation Team for Cruise Interior Outfitting Technology Co-driven by Industry-Education Integration and Digital-Intelligence Empowerment

Abstract

In response to the successive construction of domestically built large cruise ships and ongoing reforms in vocational education, conventional approaches to faculty development and organizational structures are no longer sufficient for cultivating interdisciplinary professionals in cruise interior design and outfitting technology. Taking the faculty team at Jiangsu Maritime Institute as a case study, this research employs policy analysis, occupational task analysis, and comparative case study methods to explore pathways for team building and pedagogical reform. The study proposes an organizational model featuring dual leadership (college–enterprise collaboration), cross-disciplinary hybrid teams, and real-world project communities. It further establishes an operational mechanism encompassing occupational requirement analysis, curriculum project reconstruction, dual-base collaborative practice, digital-intelligent technology empowerment, and multi-party evidence-based evaluation. This framework integrates marine materials and manufacturing processes, safety regulations, prefabricated interior outfitting, building information modeling (BIM), and generative artificial intelligence into the curriculum. Practical implementation demonstrates that this model enhances faculty competencies in aesthetic design, engineering execution, digital technology application, and industry engagement, offering a replicable reference for higher vocational colleges seeking to build structured teaching innovation teams tailored to the high-end marine equipment industry.