This paper presents a national (Swedish) graduate research school which is a cooperation between a number of institutions with the primary purpose to produce doctors for work in the domestic indust
One of the goals of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to promote engineering education, capacity building and applications for poverty eradication and sustainable development.
The recently published book, Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective (Patil and Gray, Springer 2009) includes a number of chapters by people affiliated with CDIO.
This document describes two initiatives for accreditation/certification of first and second cycles Bologna programs in Portugal.
CDIO means bringing the engineer's daily live and working practice into the educational system. In our opinion this is best done by selecting an appropriate project from industry.
NYP leverages on its industry linkages to provide our students with relevant and realistic training in current and emerging technologies & best practices and to facilitate the capability develo
As most of engineering activities lies today in the Digital World, today engineers have to be confident in the use of the 21st century digital environment.
This paper is based on the experience of using contextualised practical activities to promote active learning, systems thinking and problem solving amongst the second year students of the Diploma i
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.