With the rapid development of the social economy, the importance of basic research is becoming increasingly prominent. The “strengthening basic disciplines plan” as an important development strategy of higher education in China aims to cultivate high-level talents with innovative spirit, practical ability, and social responsibility. The reform of professional course teaching, as a key link to promote the cultivation of talents in the Strong Foundation Plan, urgently needs deep thought and practical exploration. “Global Design of Metallic Materials”, as a professional core course for the talent cultivation of the physics-based Strong Foundation Plan at Northwestern Polytechnical University, is established based on the construction idea of interdisciplinary integration combined with the university's advantages in the field of materials science research. The core knowledge content includes solid structure and defects, phase transformation thermodynamics and kinetics, as well as the mechanical properties and electrical, magnetic, and thermal characteristics of metals. It guides students to apply systematic and profound physics knowledge in the design and preparation of new metal materials through diversified practical teaching content. This is the core foundation for carrying out interdisciplinary research between physics and materials science and plays an important role in the cultivation of top-notch innovative “material people” in the new era. How to deeply instill students' national sentiment in course teaching, strengthen basic theoretical knowledge, enhance innovative thinking ability, and achieve the goal of scientific research feeding back into teaching are the reform objectives we focus on and strive to achieve.

In view of the frontier, cross and abstract course characteristics of liquid metal structure and properties, in order to implement the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people, this paper introduces the exploration and practice of curriculum ideological and political education in the teaching of liquid metal structure and properties from two aspects of textbook construction and teaching process, focusing on the school-running characteristics and the talent training objectives of material physics. It focuses on how to combine the requirements of the Central Committee of the Party and the major strategic deployment of the country to carry out the textbook construction, fully excavate the core elements of the teaching process, integrate the ideological and political elements into the whole process of classroom teaching, and finally it summarizes the exploration and practice of teaching reform, teaching process design and teaching case selection.

Molecular dynamics has become an important method to study the physical properties of liquid alloy, and has irreplaceable advantages in experimental research in many aspects. The accurate physical properties of liquid alloy in a wide temperature range can be obtained by employing the molecular dynamics, which is of great significance to expand the database of physical properties of liquid alloy and further deepening the understanding of high-temperature liquid alloy. Based on the type cases, the calculation process of the density, specific heat, diffusion coefficient and surface tension of liquid alloy have been heuristically introduced. The relationship between the outputs of molecular dynamics simulation with the macroscopic physical properties has been taught form the shallower to the deeper, and students' understands of this relationship are deepened by combining the computer experiments. After teaching reform and practice, the classroom contents of the physical properties of liquid alloy calculated by molecular dynamics can be vividly taught, and the teaching effect of the structure and properties of liquid alloy is also improved by using this teaching process design.

Under the background of the construction of “new engineering” and the training mode of large-scale talents, combined with the characteristics of national defense, the orientation of subjects and the existing experimental teaching and scientific research conditions, we explored and reformed the curriculum system of experimental teaching for undergraduate majors of Applied Physics in our university. It mainly includes the construction of a professional experimental teaching system with national defense characteristics, the design of research-oriented modular series of experiments and the implementation of diversified assessment. Through exploration and practice, it has promoted the construction of national and provincial first-class undergraduate majors, improved students' innovation ability, cooperation ability and practical ability, stimulated military feelings, cultivated the spirit of scientists, and significantly improved students' comprehensive quality.