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Desired Attributes of an
Engineering Graduate Underlying Need
CURRENT DESIRED
Engineering Science Engineering
R&D Context Product Context
Reductionist Integrative
Individual Team
Personal,
Interpersonal Pre-1950s:
and System Practice
Building
1960s: 2000:
Science & CDIO
practice
1980s:
Science
Disciplinary
Knowledge
** With the financial support of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
NEED TO GOALS
Understand 3 Industry
Y. Alum
O. Alum
2.5
Participate 2
1.5
Exposure 1
REMARKABLE AGREEMENT!
CAN WE DO BETTER?
We can if we retask:
Curriculum
Laboratories and workspaces
Teaching resources
Assessment
Faculty competence
CDIO SyllabusTopic I T U
2.1 Engineering reasoning and problem solving x x
2.2 Experimenting and knowledge discovery. x x x
2.3 System thinking . x x
2.4 Personal skills and attributes . x
2.5 Professional skills and attributes . x
3.1 Teamwork . x
3.2 Communications . x
3.3 Communication in foreign languages . x
INTRO SUBJECT - THE FRAMEWORK
Sciences
RETASKING LABS AND WORKSPACES
Reinforcing Disciplinary
Knowledge Knowledge Discovery
Learning Lab
Community Building
System Building
Hangaren
RETASKING TEACHING RESOURCES
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CHANGE PROCESS
2. CDIO Syllabus
survey and
learning objectives*
7. Authentic
3. Curricular 6. Workshop 12. Program
learning
Design* development evaluation
experiences*
Web Workshops
www.cdio.org
Collaborators sites Site visits
School
Published papers Industry
Conference Book
presentations
WOM (word-of-mouth)
Media coverage
Professional publications
Academic
Industry
General media
CDIO INITIATIVE STRUCTURE
CDIO Council
Chalmers, Linkping, Queens2, USNA, KTH, MIT, DTU, U. Pretoria
Unaligned Collaborators
Meetings Hochschule Wismar
Hodgeschool Gent
Regular Regional Meetings Shantou U.
Singapore Polytechnic
U. Auckland
Council Meetings U. Sydney
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