PLAN FOR 1st ANNUAL MEETING

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PLAN FOR 1st ANNUAL MEETING and CDIO REGIONAL
ACTIVITY Göran Gustaffson Bill Litant 9
September 2004
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ANNUAL MEETING

• Activity The 1st Annual CDIO Meeting (conference
  meetings)
• Place Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Time June 2005 (tentatively, the 6th)
• The Annual Meeting consists of a two-day
  conference including a workshop, preceded and
  followed by two halfdays of CDIO Council meeting
  and meeting of the North American regional group

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ANNUAL MEETING

• Primary conference goals
• Information exchange among collaborators and
  others on best practices
• Outreach to other educational reform efforts,
  potential implementers, industry, government and
  accreditation boards
• Implementers will be able to implement specific
  aspects of CDIO

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ANNUAL MEETING

• Secondary conference goals
• Further engage students in program
• Hear from alumni and get feedback
• Build collegiality and camaraderie
• Networking to promote further development
• Press

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ANNUAL MEETING

• The conference will be announced
• - On the CDIO web page
• - By personalized email to engineering educators
  at collaborating institutions
• - By email to engineering educators at other
  institutions
• - By email to engineering associations,
  companies, political institutions and other
  stakeholders of interest
• - In engineering and educational journals
• Call for papers from among collaborators in
  September 2004

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ANNUAL MEETING

• Abstracts of maximum 400 words due in January
  2005
• Notification of acceptance by February 2005
• Parallel conference sessions for Curriculum,
  Teaching Learning, Assessment and Workspaces,
  Faculty development
• A conference session for accreditors,
  ABET/CEAB/HSV/QAA, professional societies and/or
  a session for industry and government

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ANNUAL MEETING

• Use of active learning, that is, the conference
  should preferably be conducted in a way that
  mirrors CDIO teaching methods
• A conference fee for attendees (discounts for
  students and CDIO collaborators)

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ANNUAL MEETING
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
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Regional and Council meeting
Presentation
Plenary intro/gov/accred
(Activities in red correspond to primary
conference goals)
Interaction
Implementation workshop
Wrapup
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Regional and Council meeting
Presentation
3
Interaction
Workshop
Implementation workshop
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CDIO regional activity Bill Litant September,
2004
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CDIO DISSEMINATION
ORIGINAL COLLABORATORS
MIT
Linköping
Chalmers
KTH
EUROPE/UK
REST OF WORLD
N. AMERICA
NEW COLLABORATORS
Hogeschool Gent
École Polytechnique
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UK ACTIVITY

• Representatives from 10 UK and four Irish
  Universities attended QUB CDIO Workshop
• QUB will follow up with these schools to
  determine interest
• QUB negotiating with N. Ireland government for
  funding. If sufficient to employ several staff,
  QUB will apply as Regional Center, possibly at
  Pretoria meeting

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AFRICA ACTIVITY

• First Regional Meeting to take place in
  conjunction with Feb. 04 Collaborator Meeting
• Universities from throughout S. Africa and Africa
  to be invited
• Brochure in production

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NORDIC ACTIVITY

• First Regional Meeting to take place 10 November
  2004 in Stockholm
• Will take form of workshop on development of
  engineering programs
• CDIO and non-CDIO schools, schools in Sweden,
  Denmark, Norway, Finland, etc.

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NORTH AMERICA ACTIVITY

• First Regional Meeting to take place 04-05
  November 2004 at MIT
• In addition to current N. American collaborators
  (Queens, USNA, MIT) other US, Canadian schools,
  (plus possibly some interested S. American
  schools) will be invited
• Day 1 is CDIO Workshop
• Day 2 is meeting day topics tentatively include
  plenary discussion of Regional purpose,
  direction, activity theme discussions and work
  sessions

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OTHER ACTIVITY

• Singapore in early stages of exploring regional
  CDIO workshop
• New Zealand Des will give a paper at the
  Association for Engineering Education in
  Southeast and East Asia and the Pacific (AEESEAP)
  Conference and gauge interest in a CDIO workshop