CDIO are trademarked initiali for Conceive Design Implement Operate. The CDIO Initiative is an educational framework that stresses engineering fundamentals set in the context of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating real-world systems and products. Throughout the world, CDIO Initiative collaborators have adopted CDIO as the framework of their curricular planning and outcome-based assessment. The CDIO approach uses active learning tools, such as group projects and problem-based learning, to better equip engineering students with technical knowledge as well as communication and professional skills. Additionally, the CDIO Initiative provides resources for instructors of member universities to improve their teaching abilities. Concept The CDIO concept was originally conceived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1990s. In 2000, MIT in collaboration with three Swedish universities — Chalmers University of Technology, Linköping University and the Royal Institute of Technology — formally founded the CDIO Initiative. It became an international collaboration, with universities around the world adopting the same framework. CDIO collaborators recognize that an engineering education is acquired over a long period and in a variety of institutions, and that educators in all parts of this spectrum can learn from practice elsewhere. The CDIO network therefore welcomes members in a diverse range of institutions ranging from research-led internationally acclaimed universities to local colleges dedicated to providing students with their initial grounding in engineering. The collaborators maintain a dialogue about what works and what does not and continue to refine the project. Determining additional members of the collaboration is a selective process managed by a Council comprising original members and early adopters. The CDIO revised syllabus consists of four parts: Disciplinary knowledge and reasoning Personal and professional skills and attributes Interpersonal skills: teamwork and communication Conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating systems in the enterprise, societal, and environmental context Members The following institutions collaborate in the CDIO initiative: Australia Chisholm Institute, Centre for Integrated Engineering & Science Curtin University Queensland University of Technology RMIT University University of Sydney University of the Sunshine Coast Brasil Centro Universitário Salesiano de São Paulo (UNISAL) Instituto Militar de Engenharia Universidade Federal de Santa Maria Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará - CESUPA Belgium Hogeschool Gent Group T - International University College Leuven Canada École Polytechnique de Montréal Queen's University, Ontario Sheridan College University of Calgary University of Manitoba Chile Catholic University of the Holy Conception University of Chile University of Los Lagos University of Santiago, Chile China Beijing