outlines and implementation of the cdio syllabus at the faculty of mechanical engineering (fme)
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Outlines and implementation of the CDIO Syllabus at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME). Andrzej Zieliński , Faculty C oordinator in Materials Engineering Curriculum Sylwia Sobieszczyk , Vice-Dean for Education Wojciech Kiełczyński , Vice-Dean for Organisation of Studies. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Andrzej Zieliński, Faculty Coordinator in Materials Engineering CurriculumSylwia Sobieszczyk, Vice-Dean for
EducationWojciech Kiełczyński, Vice-Dean for
Organisation of Studies
• 2,240 students at Eng. Level• 270 students at M.Sc. Level• 30 Ph.D. students• 120 teachers• 70 administrative staff• lecture rooms for 2,000 students• computer labs for 200 students• laboratory space for 500 students
• Mechanical Engineering and Machines Building
• Mechatronics• Mechanical and Medical Engineering• Materials Engineering • Management and Production
Engineering• Energetics• Transport• Technologies of Internal Security
• Teaching performed jointly by 3 faculties: FME, Chemistry & Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics Facs
• FME specialisations:– 1st level „Engineering of Specialty and
Biomedical Materials”– 2nd level „Material Technologies”– 3rd level „Materials Engineering
(Construction Materials or Biomaterials)
1 Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning
1.1 Knowledge of underlying: mathematics and physics
Mathematics (240)Physics (150)Chemistry (165)
1.2 Core engineering fundamental knowledge
Informatics (90)Electrotechnics and electronics (60)Mechanical engineering of solids and fluids (90)Thermodynamics (60)Strength of materials (60)
1 Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning
1.3 Advanced engineering fundamental knowledge, methods and tools
Fundamentals of materials engineering (90)Crystallography (30)Light and electron microscopy (30)Electrochemistry (30)Nanotechnology (30)Fundamentals of surface engineering (30)Monographic lecture (15)Physical testing of materials (90)Mechanical testing of materials (15)Corrosion testing (30)Metrology (30)
2. Personal and professional skills and attributes
2.1 Analytical reasoning and problems solving
2.2 Experimentation, investigations and knowledge discovery
2.3 System thinking
2.4 Attitudes, thought and learning
2.5 Ethics, equity and other responsibilities
3 Interpersonal skills: teamwork and communication
3.1 Teamwork
3.2 Communications Physical exercises (90) Diploma seminar (30)
3.3 Communications in foreign languages
Foreign language (120)English terminology in materials engineering (30)
4 Conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating systems in the enterprise, societal and environmental context – the innovation processs
4.1 External, societal, and environmental context
Materials and civilisation progress (45)Environment protection (15)
4.2 Enterprise and business context
4.3 Conceiving, systems engineering and management
Functional materials (45)Specialty constructional materials (30)Biomaterials (60)Composite materials (15)Engineering of materials (45)Physics of materials (45)Management systems (30)Metals and alloys (45)Computer modelling of materials (45)
4 Conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating systems in the enterprise, societal and environmental context – the innovation processs
4.4 Designing Engineering graphics (90)Biomechanics (45)Choice of materials (15)Engineering project (30)
4.5 Implementing Materials technologies (90)Manufacturing and modification of polymers (30)
4.6 Operating Mechanims of materials failures (45)Diagnostic of materials (30)Student practices (160)
Problem of syllabus incompatibility to CDIO: Complete lack of Personal and Professional
Skills and Attributes; Entreprise and Business Context; Leadership and Entrepreneurship; Teamwork
Shortage of Implementing; External, societal, and Environmental Context
Excess of Disciplinary Knowledge and Reasoning
Syllabus segment Present number of hrs
Proposed number of hrs
1 Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning
1335 900
2. Personal and professional skills and attributes
0 300
3 Interpersonal skills: teamwork and communication
270 300
4 Conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating
795 900
Students can create problemsStudents can create teams and leadersStudents can look for its possible solutions
and look for industrial sponsorsStudents design, manufacture, and evaluateMain weak points: shortage of financial
support and too short time (solution: enlargement to 12-18 months of project execution)
Main strong points: obligatory team projects, strong self-motivation of students
A product is developed or improved, from need to physical prototype as a vehicle for learning engineering
Integrated learning: Teamwork and communication (team
projects from 2010) Design and manufacturing Analysis and simulation (already)
Industrial projects (too small part)One team project at Eng. Level
None at this momentPrototype laboratories: 400 m2
workspace (to be developed from present Welding Lab)
Study Hall: special room at new Nanotechnology Center
Hermetic national standards : disappear after 30-09-2011
Weak preparation of scholars in mathematics and physics: gradually inccreasing thanks to increasing demands (obligatory math)
Shortages in technical base preparation for team projects: improvement thanks to European projects
Modification of Curricula into CDIO Syllabus direction for Materials Engineering
Implementation of Team Projects for all engineering projects (so far at 80% for Mat Eng at FME)
Early starts of engineering projects and implementation of all CDIO phases
Creation of CDIO workspaces Implementation of CDIO Engineers`
Development System at the FME
CDIO System is very valuable for education of engineers at the GUT and especially FME
CDIO System has a great chance to be implemented at a number of education directions at the GUT thanks to positive changes in Polish educational law, demands from industrials and students, and a substantial number of teachers, and increasing educational capacities
The greatest challenges include creation of new curricula, cooperation with industry in order to find new valuable projects and means for their financing, building the prototype labs and study halls