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
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