COMPARATIVE STUDY ON CDIO IMPLEMENTATION IN SELECTED ASEAN COUNTRIES

COMPARATIVE STUDY ON CDIO IMPLEMENTATION IN SELECTED ASEAN COUNTRIES

Linda Lee Singapore Polytechnic International

Leck-Seng Lee Singapore Polytechnic International

Angkee Sripakagorn Chulalongkorn University

Natha Kuptasthien Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi

Dinh Ba Tien University of Science, VNU-HCM

Nor Hayati Saad Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia

Sin-Moh Cheah Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore

ABSTRACT This paper shares the experiences of how Singapore Polytechnic (SP) – via its International subsidiary (Singapore Polytechnic International, or SPI in short) – collaborated with educational institutions in the ASEAN countries in implementing CDIO to revamp their university education. The objective is to share with the engineering institutions the CDIO Teaching and learning Framework with the aim of educating the students to become effective modern engineers. The paper is mainly divided into 3 parts.

The first part briefly explains the CDIO implementation in SP, and the role of Singapore Polytechnic International (SPI) in sharing educational best practices in ASEAN. Focus is on the flagship program entitled “Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate (CDIO) Framework for Re-Thinking Engineering Education”, and the motivation for sharing the experiences gained through the implementation in Singapore Polytechnic. The key objective of the program is to train a group of master trainers who will in turn cascade the CDIO training in their respective universities. This paper also describes the phases of the program from training to cascading to implementation with the aim to increase capabilities and capacities in their respective universities. The components comprise design of integrating curriculum, design and build experiences, active experiential learning and evaluation of the program are described.

The second part of the paper focus on the experience of 5 institutions in 4 countries in implementing CDIO in their respective campuses, namely Chulalongkorn University and Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi in Thailand, University of Science, VNU-HCM in Vietnam, Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia and Singapore Polytechnic in SInagpore. The needs to adopt CDIO, approaches taken, progress-to-date, as well as issues and challenges faced are briefly discussed by the various universities.

Finally, part three summarizes the key learning points from the implementation experience and explores some ideas how the various universities may be able to collaborate together in the future.

Proceedings of the 11th International CDIO Conference, Chengdu, China, June 8-11 2015