Oguz han Engineering and technology university of Turkmenistan, one of CDIO's youngest members, demonstrates how habit formation can ease CDIO implementation for new adopters struggling with daily framework integration. This quasi-experimental study embedded CDIO competencies as automated daily micro-habits within engineering lessons, comparing intervention and control groups through digital assessment over 13 weeks. Participants were second-year Cyber-Physical Systems students (n=25 per group). The phased intervention progressed from individual phase routines to full lifecycle integration, yielding a large effect size (d = 1.12) on the primary CDIO competency rubric. Minimal faculty training requirements and existing LMS infrastructure suggest potential for scalable adoption across disciplines, with implications for CDIO Standards 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, and 10. Cross-disciplinary and longitudinal validation remains a direction for future work.
