Rethinking Engineering Education The CDIO Approach

In the past ten years, leaders in engineering industries have identified specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of their workforce if they want to be innovative and competitive in a global marketplace. Engineering education programs have kept

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Rethinking Engineering Education The CDIO Approach

With Foreword by Charles M. Vest

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Rethinking Engineering Education The CDIO Approach

Edward F. Crawley Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Johan Malmqvist Chalmers University of Technology

Sören Östlund KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

Doris R. Brodeur Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Edward F. Crawley Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue – 33-409 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Johan Malmqvist Department of Product and Production Development Chalmers University of Technology SE – 412 96 Göteborg SWEDEN

Sören Östlund Department of Solid Mechanics KTH – Royal Institute of Technology SE – 100 44 Stockholm SWEDEN

Doris R. Brodeur Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue – 37-391 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007921087

ISBN 978-0-387-38287-6

e-ISBN 978-0-387-38290-6

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Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 RATIONALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 BACKGROUND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE CDIO INITIATIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 THE SYLLABUS AND THE STANDARDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 IMPLEMENTATION AND EVOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 THE BOOK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CHAPTER OBJECTIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 MOTIVATION FOR CHANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 What modern engineers do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Conceive-D