Enhancing the CDIO Learning Experience Through Industrial Partnered Real World Engineering Projects

This paper documents how final year students at Singapore Polytechnic (SP), involved in the Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) curriculum initiative, participated in a real world engineering project that resulted in the successful development of a small scale ecological human waste disposal sanitation system. The strategic importance and role of the industrial partner is highlighted as well as the pedagogical approaches that underpinned the various key stages of the student experience.