The CDIO model is also a potential approach to improve training quality, meet social requirements based on determining graduates’ education standard, and develop training programs and plans. Besides its application in engineering, the CDIO model may be useful in other academic areas. | An Giang University Journal of Science – 2017, Vol. 5 (2), 1 – 8 CDIO – AN EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR CURRICULAR PLANNING AND OUTCOME-BASED ASSESSMENT Vo Van Thang1, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tho1, Huynh Thanh Tien1, Tran Thi Thanh Hue1 1 An Giang University Information: Received: 09/02/2017 Accepted: 04/03/2017 Published: 06/2017 Keywords: CDIO, education standard, higher education, training quality ABSTRACT The CDIO, initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an educational framework for training engineers. The framework stresses the engineering fundamentals in the context of Conceiving – Designing – Implementing – Operating real-world systems and products. The model has been adopted by CDIO collaborators and has expanded its scope to well-known international research institutions. The CDIO model is also a potential approach to improve training quality, meet social requirements based on determining graduates’ education standard, and develop training programs and plans. Besides its application in engineering, the CDIO model may be useful in other academic areas. process, which engineers use to create systems and products. Amstrong (2010) stated that the CDIO Innitative is an international initative to reform engineering education, which involves collaboration among thirty-six leading engineering schools and departments from around the world. There has been an increasing number of schools and departments in leading engineering universities and institutes that have applied the CDIO approach and syllabus in teaching engineering students as well as students in many other disciplines (Edward F. Crawley, Johan Malmqvist, Sören Östlund, Doris R. Brodeur, Kristina Edström, 2014). WHAT IS CDIO? The concept of CDIO was originally conceived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1990s. Several year later in 2000, this institute collaborated with three Swedish universities - Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University and the .
