CDIO
The CDIO™ movement, which is changing the face of engineering education, is rapidly gathering momentum.
CDIO™ stands for Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate. A consortium of 23 Universities across the world, led by MIT, are committed to setting their engineering programmes in the CDIO™ context.
The CDIO™ INITIATIVE is an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of engineers. It provides students with an education stressing engineering fundamentals set in the context of Conceiving — Designing — Implementing — Operating real-world systems and products.
Queens University, Belfast and the University of Liverpool are leading the UK and Ireland regional group of members, who meet regularly to share their ideas and experiences of active learning, design and build projects, first year experiences and many other aspects of the CDIO™ standards.
Essentially the collaborators are joining together in a "bottom-up" drive to improve engineering education to complement the efforts of many national bodies such as the Royal Academy of Engineering, the EPC and the Engineering Council which are giving a "top-down" steer.
Any engineering department or school which wants to find out more, or wishes to join in with the activities of the UK&I group is welcome to contact Peter Goodhew.
[The information given here on CDIO™ has been contributed by Peter Goodhew]
