Starting from the origin of the word "atoms", this paper demonstrates the materialist view of the material and the evolution from material to physicalism in the process of human development by the time sequence of the development process of science and technology. This paper expounds the connotation and characteristics of contemporary physicalism. Compared with the engineering education of engineering postgraduate students, it analyzes the important positions of physicalism and engineering philosophical thought in the postgraduate education.%从“原子”一词的起源开始，以人类科学技术发展过程的时间顺序，论证唯物主义的物质观及在人类发展过程中如何递升为物理主义的演变过程。本文阐述了当代物理主义的内涵及特征，结合工科硕士研究生的工程教育，剖析物理主义及工程哲学思想在研究生教学中的重要地位。
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