CDIO and Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective
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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 has developed in countries around the world.
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