A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Future trends of engineering education - implementing CDIO?
Authors: Ville Taajamaa, Kati Vilonen
Editors: Jerker Björkqvist, Mikko-Jussi Laakso, Janne Roslöf, Raija Tuohi, Seppo Virtanen
Publication year: 2012
Book title : International Conference on Engineering Education 2012: Proceedings
Web address : http://loki.turkuamk.fi/PublishedService?file=page&pageID=9&groupID=269∾tion=viewPromotionemcode=9789522163158
Abstract
This paper is outlining the future development trends of engineering education in
Finland. It is based on a background study about future engineering education and
working life requirements, a survey about current state of engineering education from
the students’ perspective in two different universities, and on theme interviews in one of
the universities. The objective was to find out how well CDIO approach [1] would fit to
serve the education development needs of the universities involved. The universities in
question were University of Turku [UTU] which is the second largest multidisciplinary
university in Finland and the largest one with engineering education and Aalto
University [Aalto] that was founded in 2010 by merging three universities together:
Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics, and the University of
Art and Design in Helsinki.
It looks very important for both universities studied in this paper to do systematic
curriculum development. In UTU’s case it will be the implementation of CDIO
Introduction to Engineering and Capstone project courses and continue working with
the CDIO platform. Also Aalto has decided to use CDIO as a mind-set in the
development of bachelor programs in engineering, although there is not that strong
commitment than in UTU.
This paper is outlining the future development trends of engineering education in
Finland. It is based on a background study about future engineering education and
working life requirements, a survey about current state of engineering education from
the students’ perspective in two different universities, and on theme interviews in one of
the universities. The objective was to find out how well CDIO approach [1] would fit to
serve the education development needs of the universities involved. The universities in
question were University of Turku [UTU] which is the second largest multidisciplinary
university in Finland and the largest one with engineering education and Aalto
University [Aalto] that was founded in 2010 by merging three universities together:
Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics, and the University of
Art and Design in Helsinki.
It looks very important for both universities studied in this paper to do systematic
curriculum development. In UTU’s case it will be the implementation of CDIO
Introduction to Engineering and Capstone project courses and continue working with
the CDIO platform. Also Aalto has decided to use CDIO as a mind-set in the
development of bachelor programs in engineering, although there is not that strong
commitment than in UTU.
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