Rethinking Engineering Education The CDIO Approach [Hardcover]

This book describes an approach to engineering education that integrates a comprehensive set of personal, interpersonal, and professional engineering skills with engineering disciplinary knowledge in order to prepare innovative and entrepreneurial engineers.?The education of engineers is set in the context of engineering practice, that is, Conceiving, Designing, Implementing, and Operating (CDIO) through the entire lifecycle of engineering processes, products, and systems. The book is both a description of the development and implementation of the CDIO model and a guide to engineering programs worldwide that seek to improve the education of young engineers.

Introduction and Motivation.- The CDIO Approach.- The CDIO Syllabus: Learning Outcomes for Engineering Education.- Integrated Curriculum Design.- Design-Implement Experiences and Engineering Workspaces.- Teaching and Learning.- Student Learning Assessment.- Adapting and Implementing a CDIO Approach.- Program Evaluation.- Historical Accounts of Engineering Education.- Outlook.

EDWARD F. CRAWLEY is the founding President of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Moscow. Prior to this, he led the Gordon  MIT Engineering Leadership Program, the Cambridge-MIT Institute, and the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He served as the founding co-director of the CDIO Initiative and received the Bernard M. Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering (U.S.). He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, the Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.), the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Engineering (U.S.). He earned a S.B. l£)