CDIO Learning Workspaces In The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

The CDIO framework as context for curriculum design implies among other things, rethink the workspace structure, to strengthen the processes involved in learning personal, interpersonal, and products, processes and systems construction skills. The Faculty of engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in the process of curricular reflection of its four undergraduate programs (Civil, electronics, Industrial Engineering and software) has undertaken the challenge of conceive, design, implement and operate a complex of spaces inspired by the learning of engineering, which has as main characteristics being motivating, inclusive, flexible and creative. Criteria for the workspaces conception and design are generated from the skills of the CDIO Syllabus which were integrated into the programs and the curriculum structure based on design experiences. The total construction of the 3500 m2 complex of spaces is projected to the 2016 and will count with the support of Hewlett Packard, in order to be a Center for teaching and learning in engineering model for Latin America. The present work shows the specification of 6 types of workspaces that support the CDIO standards and the integration of skills.

Proceedings of the 9th International CDIO Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9 – 13, 2013.