CDIO
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The CDIO Initiative (CDIO is a trademarked initialism for Conceive — Design — Implement — Operate) is an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of engineers. The framework provides students with an education stressing engineering fundamentals set in the context of Conceiving — Designing — Implementing — Operating real-world systems and products. Throughout the world, CDIO Initiative collaborators have adopted CDIO as the framework of their curricular planning and outcome-based assessment.
Concept
The CDIO concept was originally conceived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1990s.[1] In 2000, MIT in collaboration with three Swedish universities - Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University and the Royal Institute of Technology — formally founded the CDIO Initiative.[2] It became an international collaboration, with universities around the world adopting the same framework.[3]
CDIO collaborators recognize that an engineering education is acquired over a long period and in a variety of institutions, and that educators in all parts of this spectrum can learn from practice elsewhere. The CDIO network therefore welcomes members in a diverse range of institutions ranging from research-led internationally acclaimed universities to local colleges dedicated to providing students with their initial grounding in engineering.
The collaborators maintain a dialogue about what works and what does not and continue to refine the project. Determining additional members of the collaboration is a selective process managed by a Council comprising original members and early adopters.[4]
The CDIO syllabus consists of four parts[5]
- Technical knowledge and reasoning
- Personal and professional skills
- Interpersonal skills
- CDIO
Members
The following institutions collaborate in the CDIO initiative:[6]
Literature
CDIO currently has two guide books. Rethinking Engineering Education and Think like an engineer.
Sources
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See also
Notes
- ↑ http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/cdio/index.asp CDIO Retrieved March 29, 2010
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- ↑ http://www.cdio.org/participate/join-cdio-0 Join CDIO Retrieved March 29, 2010
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- ↑ CDIO Collaborators, retrieved March 29, 2010
