Book Review - Rethinking Engineering Education: The CDIO Approach

Creating the Cdio Syllabus, a Universal Template for Engineering Education

1 Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department, 33-207, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 Abstract  This paper details how a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology identified and codified a set of goals for engineering education, which can serve as the basis for curricular improvement and outcome based assessment. The res...

Book Review: Research on PBL Practice in Engineering Education

CDIO and Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective

The recently published book, Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective (Patil and Gray, Springer 2009) includes a number of chapters by people affiliated with CDIO. These include topics such as CDIO standards and syllabus as essential elements in quality assurance, how they have been used to in national quality assurance schemes, and the history of quality assurance as it ha...

Integrating Business Skills in Engineering Education: Enhancing Learning Using a Cdio Approach

University degrees, such as engineering, that focus on professional competences are becoming increasingly popular in Sweden. However, there is still a need to not only include but to integrate different interdisciplinary skills in courses and education programs. This paper reports and analyzes a case study of the integration of business skills in two different courses on different study program...

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