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CDIO Initiative

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The CDIO Initiative, whose trademarked name stands for Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate, is an educational framework that grounds engineering fundamentals in the real-world work of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating systems and products. Collaborating universities worldwide have adopted CDIO as the framework for their engineering curricular planning and outcome-based assessment, using active learning tools such as group projects and problem-based learning to build technical knowledge alongside communication and professional skills, and the initiative also provides resources to help instructors at member universities improve their own teaching. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Core Claim
The CDIO Initiative holds that engineering education should be organized around the real product lifecycle of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating systems, rather than around engineering fundamentals taught in isolation. 1
Origin Year
2000 1
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Source CDIO (Wikipedia)
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1. CDIO (Wikipedia)
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  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDIO_Initiative, lead paragraph (Wikipedia REST summary extract)
    CDIO are trademarked initials for Conceive Design Implement Operate.
  • History section
    In 2000, MIT in collaboration with three Swedish universities, Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, formally founded the CDIO Initiative.
  • lead paragraph (Wikipedia REST extract)
    The CDIO Initiative is an educational framework that stresses engineering fundamentals set in the context of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating real-world systems and products.
  • Associated With: Problem-Based Learning, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDIO_Initiative, lead paragraph, active-learning-tools sentence
    The CDIO approach uses active learning tools, such as group projects and problem-based learning, to better equip engineering students with technical knowledge as well as communication and professional skills.
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