CDIO and Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective

The recently published book, Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective (Patil and Gray, Springer 2009) includes a number of chapters by people affiliated with CDIO. These include topics such as CDIO standards and syllabus as essential elements in quality assurance, how they have been used to in national quality assurance schemes, and the history of quality assurance as it has developed in countries around the world. 

This book provides a picture of Quality Assurance schemes from essentially every continent along with the issues related to their development and implementation. In addition, a generic Engineering Education Quality Assurance Model is described that synthesizes all of the extant approaches and provides a structure for future development. 

With the rapid globalization of higher education as well as related changes in social, political, economic, and other conditions over the last 25 years there have been ever increasing expectations for higher education, in general, and Engineering Education, in particular. These expectations are often expressed in terms of the need for Quality Assurance locally, regionally, and globally.