TPU-Skolkovo Project: Modernization of BEng Programs In Russia

In 2011 National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) joined the CDIO Initiative. To work out the new national model for BEng programs TPU and SKOLKOVO Foundation initiated two-year project “Modernization of Bachelor’s Programs in Engineering in Accordance with International Standards of Engineering Education”. Seven leading Russian universities in Moscow (MEPhI, MISIS, MIPT, HSE), Saint-Petersburg (ITMO), Samara (SSAU) and Tomsk (TPU - coordinator) participate in the project. The main idea of the project is analysis of international standards of engineering education, developing and piloting new BEng programs in priority areas of the SKOLKOVO Innovation Center clusters: IT, Space, Energy Efficiency, Nuclear Technology and Biomed. With the aim of engineering programs modernization innovative technology for curriculum design has been developed on the basis of learning outcomes and CDIO approaches to program development, delivering and evaluation. For the time being the Russian universities – participants of the project are actively working on the BEng programs design and pilot implementation in cooperation with each other and international partners (MIT, ABET, etc.) to ensure high quality of Russian engineering education in priority areas of industrial development. The features of the implemented technology for curriculum design and current results of the project are presented in the paper.

Proceedings of the 9th International CDIO Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9 – 13, 2013.