It is our pleasure to inform you that the International CDIO Council has accepted 5 new members!

It is our pleasure to inform you that the International CDIO Council has accepted 3 new members of the CDIO Initiative in Asia. A total of five Asian schools have now been accepted as CDIO members in the first months of 2017.

1. Inje University - Korea

About the school

The 2017 CDIO Asian Regional Meeting being hosted by Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi in cooperation with the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University dated March 13-15, 2017. The meeting aimed to provide opportunities for administrators and educators coming from different universities in Asia to share and discuss education reforms and innovation.

After the UK & Ireland regional meeting during the EU meeting held in Dublin in January 2017, it is our pleasure to inform you that the International CDIO Council has accepted 1 new member of the CDIO Initiative:

Today research achievements are rewarded higher than teaching. Only 12 % of university staff recognise teaching as important in promotion to professorship, according to Dr Ruth Graham. At the CDIO meeting in Gothenburg pedagogic and professional competence development and promotion at technical universities was discussed.

Pedagogical skills and qualifications were on the agenda for the CDIO meeting in Gothenburg on March 8^th.

After the The CDIO Fall meeting in Portugal, it is our pleasure to inform you that the International CDIO Council has accepted 2 new member of the CDIO Initiative:

Dear Colleagues,

This is the final reminder to submit your 500-word abstracts under the full-paper category for CDIO 2017.  The deadline is midnight 15 November local time. The call for papers and links to the submission system can be found on the conference website under the Authors menu item: www.cdio.ca.

For questions on anything related to the conference, please email info [at] cdio [dot] ca.

Looking forward to seeing you in Calgary next June!

On October 25th and 26th 2016 one of two CDIO Faculty Development Courses was held at the Department of Product & Production Development at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The course focused on imparting knowledge about CDIO, and how to integrate innovation, entrepreneurial and business skills in the technical programmes to the participants that are engaged in teaching and development of MSc programmes.

At the international CDIO Conference in Turku it was decided to update the CDIO Standard to a 2.1 version. The new version contains updated rubrics for self-evaluation and is found at: http://cdio.org/content/cdio-standard-21