CDIO Initiative
The CDIO Initiative consists of more than 200 schools around the world organized into 7 regions; Europe, North America, Asia, UK-Ireland, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and Africa. These are led by one or several regional leaders appointed by each region.
CDIO Initiative Vision Statement
“To be the leading worldwide collaborative network for innovative engineering education to produce responsible engineers who make a difference in the world through innovation and creative workable solutions”
CDIO Initiative Mission Statement
“Building community capacity to make an open flexible and evolving framework for the advancement of engineering education by an inclusive collaboration and a sharing of effective practices for local impact”
CDIO Council
The CDIO Initiative is supervised by the CDIO Council formed by the regional leaders, 6 Members-at-Large and 2 Co-directors. The Co-directors are elected for 2 years and election of 1 is held yearly. The Members-at-Large are elected for 3 years and elections of 2 are held yearly. All elections are arranged at the Annual International CDIO Conference and the participating schools have one vote each. The regional leaders may be more than one per region alternating with each other, however the region only have one vote in the Council.
CDIO CO-directors
- Helene Leong - Singapore Polytechnic - Singapore
- Juha Kontio - Turku University of Applied Sciences - Finland
CDIO Members at-large
- Jens Bennedsen - Aarhus University - Denmark
- Joanne Tanner - Monash University - Australia
- Kristina Edström - KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Sweden
- Lisa Gommer - University of Twente - Netherlands
- Matt Murphy - University of Liverpool - United Kingdom
- Vairavel Gurusamy - SRM Institute of Science and Technology - India
Regional leaders
- Africa
- Lamjed Bettaieb - ESPRIT - Africa
- Asia
- Sin Moh Cheah - Singapore Polytechnic - Singapore
- Tân Trần Nhật - Duy Tan University - Vietnam
- Australia & New Zealand
- Nicoleta Maynard - Monash University - Australia
- Europe
- Angelo Martins - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto - Portugal
- Reidar Lyng - NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Norway
- Suzanne Brink - Umeå University - Sweden
- Latin America
- North America
- Ron Hugo - University of Calgary - Canada
- Sami Ammar - École Polytechnique de Montréal - Canada
- UK & Ireland
- Paul Hermon - Queen's University - United Kingdom
- Thomas Baker - University of Hertfordshire - United Kingdom
- Tony Topping - University of Liverpool - United Kingdom
CDIO Meetings
The CDIO Initiative organizes an annual International CDIO Conference (usually held during summer) and an annual International Working Meeting (for the purpose of advancing the organization). All regions also have 1-2 regional meetings yearly to present work and studies within Engineering Education, elect regional leaders and listen to presentations from new schools joining the Initiative. The CDIO leaders, all school representatives, meet every other month in a teleconference to discuss and manage the Initiative’s different activities.
Schools that are interested to join the CDIO Initiative are recommended to participate in Conferences and Fall meetings to learn more about the Initiative and the CDIO vision of education, before filling in an application and a self-evaluation. The application is reviewed by the CDIO council and then, if approved, the school is welcome to join in the appropriate region and present at next regional meeting.
CDIO Organization
