École Polytechnique Montreal is currently completing its reform of the Mechanical Engineering curriculum according to the CDIO principles.
École Polytechnique Montreal is currently completing its reform of the Mechanical Engineering curriculum according to the CDIO principles.
Every year of the mechanical engineering CDIO curriculum at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal contains an integrator project.
Recently all universities in the UK were obliged to introduce Personal Development Planning (PDP).
Business schools have long valued case studies as a tool for both broadening a student’s perspective, and provoking them to deeper consideration of complex situations.
Embedding a culture of health and safety into engineering learning and teaching is an important objective in the development of a professional engineer.
This paper describes faculty professional competence development programs at Chalmers University of Technology, the Technical University of Denmark, and Linköping University.
An ongoing survey of the learning style preferences of the student intake in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Queen’s University of Belfast has shown profiles which are dif
Team work, organisation, planning and consultation Contact with sponsors: maintain good relation and searching for appropriate new companies and institutions to support.
The paper, after introducing an overview of Aerospace Engineering courses organization, describes the Design-Lab teaching activity offered to the third year undergraduate students and reports a cri
For the last seven years a successful cooperation between courses in product design and industrial design has been running at the School of Engineering at Jönköping University (JTH), Sweden.
This paper is based on Singapore Polytechnic‟s (SP) experience in implementing the CDIO approach and standards for pilot diploma courses across four academic schools.
As one of the first steps towards the CDIO adaptation, a first-year introduction to engineering course has been included in the curriculum of the undergraduate engineering program in Information Te
The aim is to demonstrate how a competence framework can help when designing learning or assessment activities, under certain conditions that will be discussed during the presentation.
Two universities of applied sciences in Helsinki area will merge in August 2008.
This paper aims to bridge education for sustainable development (ESD) and integrated learning of generic competencies applying the CDIO model, by describing how ESD can be implemented into an exist
The CDIO approach includes a methodology for embedding the development of student skills and attributes in an engineering program.
Chemical Product Engineering is evolving at universities in response to the changing conditions in industry.
The laboratory was the original hands-on component in undergraduate engineering curricula.
This paper presents two different approaches that have been used to teach junior-year Mechanical Engineering students numerical analysis in a heat transfer course.
CDIO programs foster active learning and project based courses, which are key for the learning of disciplinary knowledge, design skills and also provide opportunities to improve students’ personal
In addition to the engineering knowledge, skills such as leadership and communication are important for engineers.
In a longitudinal study four students, in four cohorts of engineering students, have been interviewed on a regular basis, from enrolment until graduation and their entrance into work-life.
Motivation among faculty for internally generated creativity and change, as well as means to promote it, are presented and discussed, resulting in suggestions for a smooth program development metho
This paper draws on a larger longitudinal study and is based on 1775 questionnaire responses from five questionnaires and students in four cohorts of students in Applied Physics and Electrical Engi
Engineering education in China has been evolving from traditional engineering programs profoundly influenced by planned economy to present model.
Defining customer needs; considering technology, enterprise strategy, and regulations; developing concepts, techniques and business plans.
Creating the design; the plans, drawings, and algorithms that describe what will be implemented.
The transformation of the design into the product, including manufacturing, coding, testing and validation.
Using the implemented product to deliver the intended value, including maintaining, evolving and retiring the system.