IRM Project Overview

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IRM Project Overview John Keesee MIT February 25,
2003
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Concept Vision

• Goal To provide resources, teaching suggestions,
  and assessment tools to instructors on specific
  CDIO skill areas in one self-contained package
• Purpose To assist instructors in the integration
  of CDIO skills into existing engineering courses
• Format Web-published, multimedia format, with
  links to other resources easily modified,
  revised and updated.

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IRM Topics

• Communications (3.2)
• Teamwork (3.1)
• Professional ethics (2.5.1)
• Communication in a foreign language (3.3)
• Conceiving and engineering systems (4.3)
• Experimentation and knowledge discovery (2.2)
• System thinking (2.3)
• External and societal context (4.1)

• Enterprise and business context (4.2)
• Designing (4.4)
• Implementing (4.5)
• Operating (4.6)
• Engineering Reasoning and Problem solving (2.1)
• Personal Skills and attitudes (2.4)
• Professional skills and attitudes (2.5)

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IRM Format/content

• Background
• Overview/Motivation
• General Resources
• Web sites
• Books
• People to contact
• Topic areas
• List of topic areas
• Definition
• Where it might be used
• Learning objectives
• Teaching and learning activities
• Pre-requisites
• Recommended use and class size
• Classroom, lab and technology requirements
• Estimate of time required

• Topic areas continued
• Resources
• Presentation materials
• Problems, exercises and examples
• Desired student activity/cognitive process
• People with additional information
• Articles, websites, books
• Best practices
• How you might use the material
• How it was integrated into a course
• Problems that might arise
• Advice on when to use which content
• IRM Author
• Feedback opportunity
• Contribution process

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CDIO IRM Teams

• Communications
• LiU
• Sabrina Thelander
• Malin Lundkvist
• Ingela Wiklund
• MIT
• Diane Soderholm
• Jennifer Pixley
• Ethics
• KTH
• Gören Collste
• Martin Peterson
• LiU
• Sabrina Thelander

• Teamwork
• KTH
• Sofia Börjesson
• Jöhan Bankel
• MIT
• Diane Soderholm
• LiU
• T. Swenson
• Communication in a foreign language
• KTH
• Eva Engström
• Soren Östlund
• Chalmers
• Eva Hood
• Jöhan Bankel
• LiU
• Ingela Wiklund

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Cambridge-MIT Institute Participation

• CMI is funded to supplement IRM development over
  the next two years
• Initiating effort in March 2003
• Preliminary team members have been identified
• Topics not yet determined
• Parallel teams will focus on topics that will
  supplement CDIO work
• All IRMs will be available from a common website

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IRM Status

• Communication
• Final draft completed
• Presentation follows
• Ethics
• Final draft completed
• Test of pilot IRM ready
• Presentation follows
• Teamwork
• Initial content in work
• Pilot available for student test in April,
  teacher test in May
• Best practice discussion will drive content
• Communication in a foreign language
• Content in work
• Format will focus on best practices

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The Way Ahead

• Communications and Ethics IRMs
• Review, test, revise, and deploy
• Teamwork and Communication in a Foreign Language
  IRMs
• Complete content search, construct web pages,
  review, test, revise, and deploy
• New IRMs
• Select editor/manager for content of new IRMs
• Coordinate effort between CDIO and CMI
• Canvas CDIO teams, CMI, industry partners and web
  for existing content
• Capture and publish the development process
• Prepare and publish template to organize IRM
  materials
• Publish, review, create pilot pages, test,
  revise, and deploy new IRMs
• Maintain IRMs
• Respond to feedback and update with revised
  material

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Summary

• Initial IRMs were more difficult to complete than
  anticipated
• First completed IRMs are valuable pathfinders
• Content exists at our universities to support
  many of the new IRMs
• IRMs must provide content that is appropriate for
  a variety of situations
• IRMs will provide crucial support for the
  deployment of CDIO, especially for our new CDIO
  partner institutions