About CDIO - Benefits

Benefits and Open Architecture

Through its concept; its reforms of curriculum, teaching and learning; and its creation of workshop activities and assessment processes, CDIO is resolving the conflict in engineering education — bringing engineering education in line with real-world engineering needs.

The CDIO Initiative was specifically designed as a template that can be adapted and adopted by any university engineering school. Member schools are implementing CDIO in aerospace, mechanical and electrical engineering, and applied physics programs.

CDIO is an open architecture endeavor. It's available to all university engineering programs to adapt to their specific needs. Participating universities are developing materials and approaches to share with others. We’re developing open, accessible channels for the program materials, and for disseminating and exchanging resources.

The CDIO collaborators have assembled a unique development team of curriculum, teaching and learning, assessment, design and build, and communications professionals. They are assisting others to explore adopting CDIO in their institutions. There is a wealth of development material available ranging from model surveys, to assessment tools, to reports from institutions that have implemented CDIO programs.

Want to read, in detail, how a CDIO program is created? Read the CDIO Syllabus Report.