1998年12月，为适应工程硕士研究生教育发展的需要，国务院学位委员会、教育部和人力资源和社会保障部决定成立全国工程硕士专业学位教育指导委员会。教育指导委员会是国务院学位委员会、教育部和人力资源和社会保障部领导下的全国工程硕士专业学位教育的专家指导和咨询组织。其主要职责是：指导、协调全国工程硕士教育活动，监督工程硕士教育质量，推动工程硕士教育与企业工程技术和工程管理人员队伍建设的联系与协作，指导开展工程硕士教育方面的国际交流与合作，促进我国工程硕士专业学位教育的不断完善和发展。
继第一、二、三届教育指导委员会后，2013年12月成立第四届教育指导委员会，同时将“全国工程硕士专业学位教育指导委员会”更名为“全国工程专业学位研究生教育指导委员会”；2019年11月成立第五届教育指导委员会，委员37名，现任清华大学校长邱勇院士任主任委员。教育指导委员会秘书处挂靠在清华大学。
教育指导委员会通过调查研究、实地考察、咨询指导等方式，积极发挥专家作用，为推进工程专业学位研究生教育全面、可持续性发展献计献策。实践证明，教育指导委员会成立不仅对我国工程专业学位研究生教育事业的发展产生了重大影响，而且对工程专业学位研究生教育质量的提高发挥了重要的保障作用，标志着工程专业学位研究生教育进入了新的发展阶段。
（全国工程专业学位研究生教育指导委员会秘书处供稿）
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Brief introduction of the National Graduate Education Steering Committee
for Professional Engineering Degree
In December 1998, in order to meet the needs of the development of master's degree in engineering, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council , the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security decided to set up National Engineering Master Degree education Steering Committee. The Education Steering Committee (ESC) is an organization of the expert guidance and consulting of the National Engineering Master Degree Education under the leadership of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Education. Its main functions are: to guide and coordinate the activities of the education of master of engineering (M. Eng), supervise the quality of the education of master of M. Eng, drive communication and cooperation between the education of M. Eng and enterprise engineering technology and management personnel construction, guide to carry out international exchanges and cooperation in the education of M. Eng, to promote the continuous development and improvement of the education of M. Eng in China.
Following the first, second and third session of the ESC, the Fourth Education Steering Committee was established in December 2013. And the “National Engineering Master Degree education Steering Committee” was renamed to the “National Graduate Education Steering Committee for Professional Engineering Degree”. The Fifth Education Steering Committee was established in November 2019. There are 37 members of the ESC, the headmaster of Tsinghua University, Yong Qiu as the chairman of the committee. The Education Steering Committee Secretariat affiliated to the Tsinghua University.
The ESC through investigation, on-the-spot investigation and consulting guidance and so on, makes experts play active roles, and brainstorms suggestions for promoting the professional engineering degree of graduate education comprehensive, sustainable development. Practice has proved that the establishment of the ESC not only has produced significant influence on the development of our professional engineering degree graduate education, but also has played an important guarantee role on the quality of postgraduate education of the professional engineering degree, marking that the professional engineering degree in graduate education has entered a new stage of development.