The Context of Engineering Education

The objective of this section is to elaborate the meaning, background and evidence of effectiveness of our belief that conceiving-designing-implementing-operating should be the context of engineering education. This belief is so foundational to the CDIO approach that it is captured as the first principle of effective practice, called CDIO Standard 1. 

CDIO as the context of engineering education. If we are to base the context of education on the context of professional engineering practice, the implications for engineering education are relatively clear. We should set the education firmly in the timeless aspects of the professional context ... 

There is an explicit plan to transition to a CDIO context for the engineering program 1 The need to adopt the principle that CDIO is the context of engineering education is recognized and a process to address it has been initiated 0 There is no plan to adopt the principle that CDIO is the context of engineering education for the program... 

A commentator pointed out that some Buddhist scholars do not use mindfulness with concentration interchangeably. In their view, mindfulness is an essential mental factor required for concentration and the terms are not used interchangeably. For the purpose of fadlitating the discussion in the context of engineering education, 1 am using mindfulness to refer to this virtue. 

With similar concerns, some academicians launched a particular syllabus for engineering programs, a conceive-design-implement-operate (CDIO) of products, processes and systems approach (Crawley et al., 2011). For some CDIO is considered the authentic context of engineering education. Since 2000 CDIO has been used and endorsed by an organized international educational initiative. The CDIO syllabus is based on 12 standards (CDIO, 2012) ... 

Confucianism, Marxism, and Pragmatism The Intellectual Contexts of Engineering Education in China... 

Adoption of the principle that product, process, and system lifecycle development and deployment—Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating—are the context for engineering education. 

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