Program Evaluation Aligned With The Cdio Standards

Abstract

The CDIO Initiative is a collaboration of engineering programs at universities in more than eight countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Collaborators have developed a set of twelve standards that characterize CDIO programs and provide the basis for program evaluation. This standards-based program evaluation extends the evaluative criteria of ABET's EC2000 and other outcomes-based approaches. Evidence of overall program value is collected from multiple sources, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Evidence and results form the basis of decisions about the program and its plans for continuous improvement.