The pandemic has forced teaching as well as as the Software Development industry, to be performed remotely.
The pandemic has forced teaching as well as as the Software Development industry, to be performed remotely.
The Diploma in Integrated Events and Project Management (DEPM) course in the School of Architecture & the Built Environment recently started exploring using CDIO approach as a basis to enhance
The aim of this paper is to share and reflect on experiences of learning activities, in which engineering students meet with representatives from industry and public organisations to get acquainted
Delivering activities that are well aligned to the CDIO curriculum can present many challenges and often the complexity of these activities can lie outside the skill set of any single individual. S
This paper aims to analyze what roles are needed in the team that organizes a challenge-based learning (CBL) course or event.
Digitalization is transforming the real estate and construction (REC) sector and a key feature of this transformation is Building Information Modelling (BIM) - the virtual representation of all bui
Collaboration with the surrounding society is increasingly identified as high priority in the governance of Swedish universities.
National Institute of Technology, Sendai College, Hirose Campus has been conducting a general skills (GSs) survey using external standardized tests in Japan since 2014.
Capstone courses are a common way to bring together earlier learnings into a practical demonstration of the skills acquired.
The whole systems approach (WSA) is a generic term for varieties of methods such as Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, World Café and so on, which are commonly based on dialogue and attac
Teaching design skills to engineering students has long been one of the main building blocks of the bachelor curriculums at the TU Delft faculties of Industrial Design Engineering and Architecture
The universities of applied sciences educate practically oriented experts for working life.
Solving design problems is a core activity in the engineering field.
Although the CDIO framework was originally developed to serve the purpose of producing the next generation of engineers, it has been implemented for non-engineering programs such as development pra
Due to the pandemic, universities were challenged to switch into distance mode, causing teachers to make pedagogical adjustments.
The world today needs rapid innovation, product development and consideration of sustainability.
In engineering programs, systems thinking capability has been promoted for a long time.
This paper describes a one-semester course, given to third-year Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EE) students at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, since 2011. The course was dev
This paper outlines a system of internal quality assurance and its concomitant education support services for the teaching staff and study programme committee of the electronics ICT engineering edu
The CDIO Initiative is going through a process of reconsidering and updating the CDIO approach for engineering education development.
The increasing relevance of uncertainty and complexity provides ongoing and future challenges for engineers.
One of the final courses, if not the last course at university level in Sweden, and especially within the engineering programs, is a thesis course where the students demonstrate their accumulated k
Self-directed learning (SDL) is a higher order competency that requires simultaneous development of a myriad of interrelated technical and generic skills, knowledge and attitude. The Diploma in Che
While adopting Information Technology (IT) may have been a goal in itself in the past, during the last decade the emphasis has shifted, and IT has instead become a tool that enables us to realize o
This paper aims to investigate the challenge-based learning (CBL) approach from the perspective of challenges and challenge providers (CPs), that is, how to successfully collaborate with external C
Defining customer needs; considering technology, enterprise strategy, and regulations; developing concepts, techniques and business plans.
Creating the design; the plans, drawings, and algorithms that describe what will be implemented.
The transformation of the design into the product, including manufacturing, coding, testing and validation.
Using the implemented product to deliver the intended value, including maintaining, evolving and retiring the system.