文档介绍：Towards a New Model for First-Year Introductory Courses in Engineering Education Programmes
Göran Gustafsson Johan Malmqvist Dava J. Newman
Sven Stafström Hans Peter Wallin
Keywords: CDIO, syllabus, first-year course, engineering education
Abstract
An important ponent of engineering programmes is a first-year course aimed at introducing various subjects as well as motivating the students and introducing them to the engineering profession. This pares four such courses at Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Linköping University (LiU), all in Sweden, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts, USA. Discriminators showing details of each course are displayed and possible course development is discussed.
The presented study is a part of the ongoing Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate (CDIO) Program for Engineering Education Reform, which is run by the abovementioned universities and supported by the Swedish Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The CDIO Program aims at developing a new model for engineering education, focusing on Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate skills. The concept is characterized by a anized around the various disciplines while emphasizing that engineering is about conceiving – designing – implementing and operating products and systems, a multitude of student projects, a pedagogic model that supports active, experiential and group learning, a varied learning environment with classrooms, workshops and the outside world as well as a continuous improvement process.
1 Introduction
Historically, elements of hands-on practice and scientific fundamentals have been well balanced in academic engineering education. Most teachers were practicing engineers themselves who focused on solving concrete problems, and their students learned to conceptualise and design products and systems. However, after the Second World War, the rapid expansion of scientific and technical kno