CDIO Initiative

CDIO are trademarked initials for Conceive Design Implement Operate. The CDIO Initiative is an educational framework that stresses engineering fundamentals set in the context of conceiving, designing, implementing and 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. The CDIO approach uses active learning tools, such as group projects and problem-based learning, to better equip engineering students with technical knowledge as well as communication and professional skills. Additionally, the CDIO Initiative provides resources for instructors of member universities to improve their teaching abilities.^[1]

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 KTH 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 revised syllabus consists of four parts:^[5]^[6]

Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning
Personal and professional skills and attributes
Interpersonal skills: teamwork and communication
Conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating systems in the enterprise, societal, and environmental context

The following institutions collaborate in the CDIO initiative:^[7]

Australia

Brasil

Belgium

Canada

Chile

China

Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology
Beijing Jiaotong University
Chengdu University of Information Technology
Shantou University
Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology
Tsinghua University
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Yanshan University

Colombia

Denmark

Finland

France

CESI (enseignement)
IMT Atlantique (formerly Telecom Bretagne)

Germany

Honduras

Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana UNITEC

Iceland

Reykjavík University

India

Vel Tech University

Indonesia

Politeknik Negeri Batam

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Politecnico di Milano

Japan

Malaysia

Mongolia

Mongolian University of Science and Technology

Netherlands

New Zealand

University of Auckland

Norway

Philippines

Poland

Gdańsk University of Technology

Portugal

Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

Russia

Singapore

South Africa

South Korea

Inje University

Spain

Sweden

Taiwan

Feng Chia University

Thailand

Chulalongkorn University (Faculty of Engineering)
Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi

Tunisia

École supérieure privée d'ingénierie et de technologie

Turkmenistan

Oguz han Engineering and Technology University of Turkmenistan

United Kingdom

England
Scotland
- University of Strathclyde
Northern Ireland

United States of America

Vietnam

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.

References

^ ^a ^b "The CDIO Initiative". Queen's University - Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
^ "Wallenberg CDIO documents". Archived from the original on March 16, 2005.
^ "CDIO Collaborators". Archived from the original on January 2, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
^ "Join CDIO". Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
^ 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. Vol. 2. IEEE. doi:10.1109/FIE.2002.1158202. ISBN 0-7803-7444-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 27, 2007.
^ Crawley, Edward F. (June 20, 2011). "The CDIO Syllabus v2.0 An Updated Statement of Goals for Engineering Education" (PDF). CDIO. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 19, 2018. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
^ "Member Schools". CDIO. Archived from the original on May 1, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2016.