DNUI Hosts Conference of CDIO for Engineering Education

The International Symposium on Engineering Education Reform and Development Against the New Tech Era & the 2019 Asian Regional Conference on CDIO was opened on Mar.25 in Dalian. Over 300 scholars from universities home and abroad and professionals from a range of industries, including foreign guests were from Australia, Singapore and Japan, gathered in the coastal city to contribute their insights. The event is sponsored by the International CDIO Engineering Education Organization, hosted by Dalian Neusoft University of Information and co-hosted by CDIO Engineering Education Alliance, National Demonstrative Software Institutes Alliance, National Guidance Committee of National Industrialized and Informationalized Vocational Education and Association of Fundamental Computing Education in Chinese Universities.

With the arrival of a new wave of technological revolution and industrial reform, engineering education faces unprecedented opportunities. New expectations are placed on institutions of higher learning and industries to turn out engineers that are qualified for the new era. The event centres around the theme of Revolution and Development of Engineering Education Against the New Tech Era. The experts and scholars conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges on the status quo and future of engineering education, new requirements of the new economic and social developments for the training of engineering people and the cooperation of engineering education in Asia.

Helene Leong, a representative from International Cooperation Organization of CDIO and Wen Tao, Party Secretary of CPC and President of DNUI delivered speeches on behalf of the sponsor and the host.

CDIO國際合作組織代表HELENE LEONG致辭

Helence Leong, a representative from International Cooperation Organization of CDIO, delivers a speech.

During the conference, with the theme of AI + educational practices and IT engineering talents in digital times, top executives from Baidu and New H3C discussed the changes of demands for engineering talents based on new technical revolution and the deepening of school-enterprise cooperation mechanism. Administrators and scholars from the University of Queensland of Australia, the University of Aizu of Japan, Yanshan University, Shantou University, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Chengdu University of Information Technology and DNUI shared the experience of cultivating engineering talents in light of various explorations of engineering education. All parties gave distinct viewpoints including theoretical thinking and summary of practice, which provided profound analysis and discussions about the present state and the future of engineer education.

On March 26th, both Chinese and overseas scholars also attended the parallel forum in DNUI and continued their discussion on the mode of engineering talents cultivation, construction of curriculum system, school-enterprise cooperation mechanism and the assessment of learning effects.

The conference has simultaneously collected the achievements of engineering education reform and research in the field of education at home and abroad. It has received more than 160 papers from scholars in the domestic universities and colleges including Shantou University, Yanshan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information, and in the universities and colleges of the foreign countries like Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Mongolia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Thailand and other countries. After review, 44 papers were singled out for publication.

Scholars and experts from many countries discussthe reform and development of engineering education.

Wen Tao, the Party Secretary and President of Dalian Neusoft University of Information, pointed out that since it was conceived, the concept of CDIO engineering education has been widely concerned and promoted at home and abroad. After more than ten years of theoretical development and application innovation, CDIO engineering education concept has had far-reaching effects on the worldwide engineering education reform and played an important role in cultivating high-quality engineering talents and promoting social development. The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation have provided new opportunities for the development of engineering education, and also posed new challenges. The conference was held to bring together resources, build platforms to promote high level communication and interaction between universities, enterprises and other stakeholders of education, and provide more ideas and creates more opportunities for the cultivating high-quality and innovative engineering talents.

Wen Tao, the Party Secretary and President of Dalian Neusoft University of Information, is interviewed by Liaoning TV on the sidelines of the conference.

From: Dalian Neusoft University of Information