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The CDIO Approach

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The objective of engineering education is to educate students who are “ready to engineer,” that is, broadly prepared with both pre-professional engineering skills and deep knowledge of the technical fundamentals. It is the task of engineering educators to continuously improve the quality of undergraduate engineering education in order to meet this objective. Over the past 30 years, many in industry and government have tried to describe these desired outcomes in terms of attributes of engineering graduates. By examining these views, we identified an underlying need: to educate students to understand how to Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate complex value-added engineering products, processes and systems in a modern, team-based environment.

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  1. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow Oblast, Russia

    Edward F. Crawley

  2. Product and Production Development, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Johan Malmqvist

  3. Department of Solid Mechanics, KTH—Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sören Östlund

  4. Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Doris R. Brodeur

  5. Education and Communication in Engineering Sciences, KTH—Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Kristina Edström

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Crawley, E.F., Malmqvist, J., Östlund, S., Brodeur, D.R., Edström, K. (2014). The CDIO Approach . In: Rethinking Engineering Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05561-9_2

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