Communication Forum

A major international project to reform undergraduate engineering education was launched in October 2000. This project, called The CDIO Initiative, has expanded to include engineering programs worldwide. The vision of the project is to provide students with an education that stresses engineering fundamentals set in the context of Conceiving--Designing--Implementing--Operating real-world systems, processes, and products.  The CDIO Initiative has three overall goals – to educate students who are able to:

This discussion forum has been created to engage discussion around how to best embody internationalisation and mobility within the CDIO framework. An international working party has been formed to lead discussions, however, all are welcome to give input. The outcomes of this discussion will be distilled and presented at the 2010 CDIO conference in Montreal.

Benchmarking Report Reveals Highlights of this Emerging Field

(Cambridge, MA)—Engineering leadership education is emerging as a hot topic in engineering institutions worldwide. But according to a review of international “best practices” in engineering leadership education, a lack of resources, expertise, and formal networks in the nascent field is causing concern in a profession threatened by a diminishing focus on the notion of the “engineer-as-doer”.