Application of CDIO in Non-Engineering Programmes – Motives, Implementation and Experiences

CDIO originated in mechanical and aerospace engineering and is still dominated by engineering programmes. CDIO application in engineering has shown to be successful including positive effects on graduates’ design, personal, and interpersonal skills, and outside perceptions of educational quality Malmqvist et al., 2015). Crawley et al. (2014) argue that CDIO may also be applied to non-engineering programmes by: • Developing a description of the profession’s context of practice as a starting point for educational design (corresponding to CDIO standard 1) • Working with stakeholders to identify their requirements on the graduates • Adapting the pedagogical and curricular elements of CDIO (CDIO standards 3-11 mainly) to the discipline’s needs • Applying the CDIO curriculum development and quality assurance processes (CDIO standard 12) The aims to this papers is to clarify: • With which motives that CDIO has been applied to non-engineering programmes • How this was achieved, including what modification that were made to contextualize the CDIO framework and tools to the situation • The effects of the CDIO implementation in non-engineering programmes, including benefits, drawbacks and limitations The paper is based on case studies of the following programmes: • Food science and technology and Music and audio technology at Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore • Business and Library and information Services at Turku University of Applied Science, Finland • Chemistry and International business at Vietnam National University, Vietnam The selection of case studies was made in order to cover a broad span of non-engineering programmes, including science, business, performing arts and other areas. For each of the programmes, we review its main goals profile and contents, its CDIO implementation and the positive and negative effects associated its CDIO implementation. In the discussion section, we compare the motives, implementations and experiences, and propose a set of recommendations for the application of CDIO to non-engineering programmes. References Crawley, E. F., Malmqvist, J. Östlund, S., Brodeur, D. R. (2014) Rethinking Engineering Education - The CDIO Approach, 2nd edition. ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-319-05560-2. Springer-Verlag, New York Malmqvist, J., Hugo, R., Kjellberg, M. (2015) A Survey of CDIO Implementation Globally – Effects On Educational Quality, Proceedings of the 11th International CDIO Conference, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R. China, June 8-11, 2015.

Proceedings of the 12th International CDIO Conference, Turku, Finland, June 12-16 2016