The 2018 CDIO Regional Meeting took place at Duy Tan University in Danang from March 12th to 14th, attracting 200 experts and engineering students from 55 universities in 12 countries. Members of CDIO Initiative shared their experiences implementing innovative and creative educational solutions in the field of Technology. This is also the first time the Regional CDIO Academy for engineering students has been held at the Regional meeting.
Participants
The speakers discussed innovation and creativity in engineering education practices. Some examples are the talks “Seeking Closure in Engineering Education Reform”, “Pedagogy for Evidence - based Flipped Classroom”, “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning”, “Students Involvement in Making Smarter Cities”, “A flexible curricular topology for optimal career options from freshman engineering to capstone”, and others.
Initially conceived by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the number of institutions implementing CDIO worldwide has increased steadily, especially in the USA and Northern Europe.
CDIO is an innovative educational framework which teaches the learning methods and skills required to adapt to social trends, focusing on the fundamentals of engineering, in the context of Conceiving, Designing, Implementing and Operating real-world systems and products. CDIO has been adopted as the framework for curricular planning and outcome-based assessment. It is a powerful tool for professionals and, at the same time, helps students learn both the “hard skills” and “soft skills” they need to adapt to the current international working environment.
The CDIO Initiative now has hundreds of educational institutions collaborating. The CDIO Academy in Asia has 28 members, with 5 from Vietnam, including the Viet Nam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, Duy Tan University, Thu Dau Mot University, Dalat University and the FPT University.
(Media Center)