The principles and standards of CDIO are being implemented in the MEng programme in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. As part of the implementation plan the final year of the programme has been modified in order to provide an integrated learning experience centred on a new team-based project. The changes to the programme are described and examples are presented to illustrate the type of project carried out by the student teams. Finally the new project’s role in helping to meet the CDIO Standards is discussed, conclusions are drawn and future work is outlined. This paper was presented at the CDIO Annual Conference, 06-09 June 2005, Kingston, Ontario. They are posted here by permission of the author(s).
A CDIO Approach to the Final Year Capstone Project
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Conceive
Defining customer needs; considering technology, enterprise strategy, and regulations; developing concepts, techniques and business plans.
Design
Creating the design; the plans, drawings, and algorithms that describe what will be implemented.
Implement
The transformation of the design into the product, including manufacturing, coding, testing and validation.
Operate
Using the implemented product to deliver the intended value, including maintaining, evolving and retiring the system.
