Book Objective and Audience

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Book Objective and Audience

• Target audience is policy makers and thought
  leaders in universities, government, industry and
  other professional disciplines (provosts, deans,
  department heads, heads of undergraduate
  programs, leaders of industry who interface and
  participate in universities, education policy
  makers in government and accreditation bodies)
• Objective is to create policy level awareness and
  support for CDIO
• Fairly high level rationale, philosophy and
  approach, in a historical and social context
• Explicitly NOT a handbook for adopters

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Book Outline - One Page

• Title CDIO, bill and eds excellent adventure
  ready to engineer educating engineering students
  who can engineer
• Inside covers - Syllabus, Adoption flowchart
• Introduction
• Historical Context
• Essential Skills
• Curriculum
• Workspaces
• Teaching and Learning
• Assessment
• Implementing CDIO
• Outlook

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Book Development Approach

• Goal is to send a 200 page (A4) manuscript to
  publisher by next May
• Process is to have a large group each writing a
  modest amount
• 200 pages - 50 pages of figures, etc 150 pages
  /15 authors 10 pages per author
• Makes writing doable, but editing more difficult
• Significant alignment of material with previous
  publications and workshop material
• Identify lead and chapter authors (done)
• Lead authors will be responsible for several
  chapters, plus editing
• Chapter authors will be responsible for chapters
  that deal with there theme
• Agree to overall outline (done)
• Develop style guide (done)
• Develop chapter outlines in detail, with short
  message for boxes (2-3 pp) - this week
• Finalize first draft by winter meeting
• Final draft by Spring (annual) meeting

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Book Authors

• Initial lead authors are Ed, Johan and Bill
• Others will be acknowledged as book authors if
  they contribute to two or more chapters, and take
  a principal role in editing
• Chapter authors (initial, with lead listed first)
  are listed below
• Authors will be listed as chapter authors if they
  contributed more than one quarter of the chapter,
  and participated in chapter editing
• All contributors will be acknowledged as other
  contributors in the introduction

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Book - September Deliverable 1

• Chapter title
• Chapter author
• Message outline
• Main message of chapter (1-2 paragraphs)
• Supporting message 1 (1 paragraph)
• Supporting message 2 (1 paragraph)
• Supporting message N (1 paragraph)
• Textual Outline
• About 2 page outline at two or three level of
  detail
• Key figures
• List and perhaps have rough drafts or samples
• Boxes
• For each, have a short paragraph summarizing text
  plus intended author
• Active learning exercise
• For each have a short paragraph describing