Effective Workspace for Engineering Education: The Integrated Learning Centre at Queen's University in Kingston

Although conceived and developed independently, the IL initiative at Queen’s and the CDIO initiative developed by Chalmers, KTH, LiU and MIT have much in common. In both programs, it has been apparent that existing university facilities can be limiting factors in the implementation of innovative curriculum. This paper discusses IL responses to those spatial needs.  This paper was presented at the 1st CDIO Annual Conference, 06-09 June 2005, Kingston, Ontario. They are posted here by permission of the author(s).