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The CDIO™ INITIATIVE is an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of engineers. The framework provides students with an education stressing engineering fundamentals set in the context of Conceiving — Designing — Implementing — Operating (CDIO) real-world systems and products. Throughout the world, CDIO Initiative collaborators have adopted CDIO as the framework of their curricular planning and outcome-based assessment.
CDIO collaborators recognize that an engineering education is acquired over a long period and in a variety of institutions, and that educators in all parts of this spectrum can learn from practice elsewhere. The CDIO network therefore welcomes members in a diverse range of institutions ranging from research-led internationally acclaimed universities to local colleges dedicated to providing students with their initial grounding in engineering.
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- Jun222026Location: School of Engineering, University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3GH United KingdomSep232026Location: XH4R+X9P, Serikbayev Str., 19 Kazakhstan 070000, Oskemen Kazakhstan
Latest Publications
This paper presents the development and validation of a survey as a tool to measure innovation self-perception competence in early-year engineering students at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile.
Within six institutions, Chalmer’s University of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, NTNU, Queen’s University Belfast, and Umeå University, activities of self-mapping Curriculum Agility have taken place,
This paper is a product of the Monash Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Sharing Circle (EDISC) and seeks to highlight alignments between the Conceive-Design-Implement- Operate (CDIO) framework and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) concepts and
Professional practice coursework is a cornerstone of engineering education, particularly where access to industry placements is limited.
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