CDIO

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]

1. Technical knowledge and reasoning
2. Personal and professional skills
3. Interpersonal skills
4. CDIO

Members

The following institutions collaborate in the CDIO initiative:^[6]

Australia Chisholm Institute, Centre for Integrated Engineering & Science Queensland University of Technology University of Sydney Belgium Hogeschool Gent Group T - International University College Leuven Canada École Polytechnique de Montréal Queen's University, Ontario University of Calgary University of Manitoba Sheridan College Chile Catholic University of the Holy Conception University of Chile University of Santiago, Chile China Beijing Jiaotong University Chengdu University of Information Technology Shantou University Tsinghua University Colombia National University of Colombia Pontifical Xavierian University Universidad Icesi Denmark Aalborg University Aarhus University Technical University of Denmark Finland Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences Lahti University of Applied Sciences Savonia University of Applied Sciences Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences Turku University of Applied Sciences France Telecom Bretagne Germany Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences Technology, Business and Design RWTH Aachen University Honduras Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana UNITEC Iceland Reykjavík University Israel Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering SCE Shamoon College of Engineering Italy Politecnico di Milano Japan Kanazawa Institute of Technology Kanazawa Technical College

Malaysia School of Engineering at Taylor's University Netherlands Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology New Zealand University of Auckland Poland Gdańsk University of Technology Portugal Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Russia Astrakhan State University Bauman Moscow State Technical University Cherepovets State University Don State Technical University Kazan Federal University Moscow Aviation Institute Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology National Research Nuclear University MEPhI Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation Siberian Federal University Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Tomsk Polytechnic University Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics Ural Federal University Singapore Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore Polytechnic South Africa University of Pretoria Spain Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Sweden Chalmers University of Technology Jönköping School of Engineering Linköping University Royal Institute of Technology Umeå Institute of Technology Tunisia Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies United Kingdom England Aston University Lancaster University University of Bristol University of Leeds University of Liverpool Scotland University of Strathclyde Northern Ireland Queen's University Belfast United States of America Arizona State University California State University Daniel Webster College Duke University Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Naval Postgraduate School Pennsylvania State University Stanford University U.S. Naval Academy University of Colorado University of Michigan University of Notre Dame-College of Engineering University of Central Florida Vietnam Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City Duy Tan University

Literature

CDIO currently has two guide books. Rethinking Engineering Education and Think like an engineer.

Sources

• Edward Crawley; Johan Malmqvist; Sören Östlund; Doris Brodeur (2007). Rethinking Engineering Education, The CDIO Approach. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-38287-6.

See also

• Technology enhanced active learning

Notes

1. http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/cdio/index.asp CDIO Retrieved March 29, 2010
2. "Wallenberg CDIO documents". Archived from the original on March 16, 2005.
3. "CDIO Collaborators". Retrieved December 28, 2011.
4. http://www.cdio.org/participate/join-cdio-0 Join CDIO Retrieved March 29, 2010
5. Edward F. Crawley (2002). "Creating the CDIO Syllabus, A Universal Template for engineering education" (PDF). Frontiers in Education, 2002. FIE 2002. 32nd Annual. Frontiers in Education. IEEE. doi:10.1109/FIE.2002.1158202. ISBN 0-7803-7444-4.
6. CDIO Collaborators, retrieved March 29, 2010

External links

• Official site