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CDIO: conceive, design, implement, operate

By Steve Draper, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow.

CDIO stands for conceive, design, implement, operate. It is a new approach for organising engineering education, (a reaction against courses that are research-based and taught by and for people with no experience in being practising engineers).

Its web site is www.cdio.org. It has a collection of papers about CDIO, some of which I have local copies of:

Four introductory papers as a single PDF file.
The most challenging one on educational techniques here.
From it, ten principles here.
An overview of the CDIO generic syllabus reproduced here. Note that the technical matters usually considered the heart of an engineering degree programme are reduced to one of the four top headings, and a much smaller proportion of the text and detailed sections.

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