OPTIMIZATION AND INNOVATION BACCALAUREATE CURRICULUM DESIGN ACCORDING TO CDIO CONCEPTS

OPTIMIZATION AND INNOVATION BACCALAUREATE CURRICULUM DESIGN ACCORDING TO CDIO CONCEPTS

E. Ferreira, A. Barreiras, E. Gomes (2008).  OPTIMIZATION AND INNOVATION BACCALAUREATE CURRICULUM DESIGN ACCORDING TO CDIO CONCEPTS . 6.

Recent progresses on curriculum undergraduation reformulation in Portugal, due to Bologna Agreement, lead to the development of a new Optimization and Innovation baccalaureate. This course has been structured along a completely new curriculum, inspired on the CDIO paradigm, combining a core curriculum in Mathematics, Management and Information Technologies, with a set of minors in the areas of engineering taught in ISEP, the Porto Polytechnic School. To promote differentiation, new skills, accurate knowledge and pro-active attitudes will make the difference between success and failure in the competitive labor market. Against the usual background, this baccalaureate was structured in order to develop competences that are really fundamental for an engineer of the 21st century. Besides technically skilled, the engineer of the 21st century must also denote competences in a variety of professional practices, and those skills must be developed and practiced throughout time. 

Authors (New): 
Eduarda Pinto Ferreira
Alcinda Barreiras
Elsa Ferreira Gomes
Pages: 
6
Affiliations: 
Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Keywords: 
CDIO
Curriculum Design
Course design
Year: 
2008
Reference: 
Decree nº 74/2006, March 24, “The transposition of Bologna Agreement to National Education System”, National Press, 2006 (in Portuguese). : 
Educating the Engineer of 2020 Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century, National Academy of Engineering, 2005. : 
Edward F. Crawley, CREATING THE CDIO SYLLABUS, A UNIVERSAL TEMPLATE FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION, 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2002 : 
Karl-Frederick Berggren et al., CDIO: An International Initiative for Reforming Engineering Education, www.cdio.org/papers/papers.html : 
Karl-Frederik Berggren et al, CDIO: An international initiative for reforming engineering education, World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education Vol.2, No.1, 2003 : 
Ministry of Science and Superior Education, “Action Plan: Bologna Process”, MCES, May 2004, (in Portuguese). : 
The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, National Academy of Engineering, 2004. : 
Zola Mbanguta, The Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate Initiative: A New Outcomes Based Approach for the Reform of Higher Engineering Education, available at www.cdio.org/papers/papers.html: 
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