CDIO

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Australia

Brasil

Belgium

Canada

Chile

China

Colombia

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Honduras

Iceland

India- Tamil Nadu

Israel

Italy

Japan

Malaysia

Netherlands

New Zealand

Poland

Portugal

Russia

Singapore

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Tunisia

United Kingdom

United States of America

Vietnam

Literature[edit]

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

Sources[edit]

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

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  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. ^ [1], retrieved May 16, 2016

[1]

External links[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.cdio.org/cdio-collaborators/school-profiles