Joining the CDIO Initiative
If you want to become a CDIO collaborator, email us at info@cdio.org.
CDIO is an open-architecture project; the materials we generate are freely available to all who wish to use them to improve engineering education. The most important challenge for schools that wish to participate is to dedicate themselves to meet the CDIO Standards.
Becoming an official CDIO collaborator brings with it many advantages. These and other issues related to joining the Initiative are discussed in the Frequently Asked Questions of this Web site.
The CDIO Collaborators enthusiastically welcome others to join us. The procedure is simple When a school asks to become a collaborator, its representative is sent a list of questions. The response to these questions is reviewed by the CDIO Council, which then makes the decision to welcome the school as a new Regional Collaborator.
To learn more about how schools are integrated into the CDIO Initiative, you should:
Questions asked of potential collaborators:
- Why does your university want to join the CDIO Initiative?
- To which of your programs do you plan to initially apply CDIO? How do you expect CDIO to impact these programs? What goals do you hope to achieve?
- As a CDIO Regional Collaborator, what would be your plan for participating in, and contributing to, the International CDIO Initiative?
- Do you envision helping to involvinge other universities and locally developing the Initiative do you envision? If so, how might you do this?
- What experience do you have in engineering educational reform at your university which might contribute to the effort and form a foundation for the work as a collaborator?
- What level of commitment and support do you have from your university’s Dean and Central Leadership? (Attach supporting letters, if applicable.)
- Who will be the key two to five participants in your effort? (Attach short CVs as appropriate.)