Study on CDIO Talents Training Mode of Industrial Engineering
Xiu-ju Lan, Yan Zhan, Ying-de Li, Jian-sha Lu
Industrial Engineering and Logistics Department, Zhejiang University of Technology，Hangzhou，China
lxj@zjut.edu.cn
Abstract - Manufacturing is the leading industry of
Zhejiang Province. Under the guidance of the CDIO
engineering education concept, industrial engineering of
Zhejiang University of Technology proposed the CDIO
personnel cultivation mode. The mode takes the market
demand on manufacturing talents as the direction,
constructs basic curricula system according to the
requirements of ability training, enhances the ability of
engineering education for teachers and sets up sustainable
improvement system on education quality project.
Keywords - Industrial Engineering, CDIO, Talents
lot of industrial engineering professionals with high-tech
skill [6-7]. Manufacturing is the leading industry of
Zhejiang Province, which needs lots of professionals with
engineering education background to enhance enterprises
competitive [8]. It is an urgent problem to establish
“employment-oriented” talents training mode to meet the
talents needs from enterprises.
II. PRESENT SITUATIONS OF IE TALENTS
TRAINING
Training Mode
I.
INTRODUCTION
CDIO training syllabus foster engineering graduates
from four aspects: basic engineering knowledge, personal
skills, interpersonal team skills and engineering systems,
while students take the initiative, practical and organic
learning among the courses [1]. In 2005, college of
engineering Shantou University carried on CDIO
engineering education mode, focusing on training the
students’ systems engineering technology ability,
especially project conceiving, designing, developing and
implementing abilities, and strong self-study ability,
organizational communication and coordination abilities.
The mode aimed at absorbing world advanced
developments of engineering education concept and
establishing curricular system to reach consensus on
international engineering education, to acquire agreement
on Washington certification in 2011 and let its graduates
standing on the same starting line with those from
international famous universities [2]. Zhejiang University
of Technology was among those 39 CDIO pilot
universities, which were identified by the Ministry of
Education from the Department of Higher Education from
2008 to 2010. In recent years, the number of colleges and
universities setting up industrial engineering specialty has
[3]
increased rapid . Industrial engineering (IE) is a kind of
professional skill combining technology and management
[4]
, thus engineering education background should be a
trend of industrial engineering education and talents
training mode.
According to statistics, labor productivity from
manufacturing sector in Zhejiang did not reach one-tenth
of the level which the United States, Japan and Germany
had in the middle of 1990s, relying on low-cost labor and
low prices to maintain competitive advantage [5]. Industrial
upgrading and change of economic growth mode require a
There is a great number of manufacturing enterprises
in Zhejiang Province and the demand for industrial
engineering professionals maintains sustainable growth
trend [9]. The purpose of IE talents training is to serve the
manufacturing industry in Zhejiang Province. The
statistics data on graduates’ employment from industrial
engineering of Zhejiang University of technology in the
last 3 years show the average proportion of graduates
serving the manufacturing was 60%. With the help of
mechanical engineering courses platform, industrial
engineering has the advantage of engineering skills
training mode under CDIO professionals.
IE is a professional skill consisting of technology
and management [10], of which the purpose is to train
talented manager with engineering background in
manufacturing enterprises. The practical curriculum of
engineering includes two aspects that consist of
mechanical practice corresponded with mechanical
curriculum and comprehensive practice of IE. The purpose
of strengthening the engineering background is indicated
in the curriculum on the whole. The exploration has been
developed for many years for the talents training project to
improve the background of students. However, CDIO is
not used as direction. In another word, the four aspects in
the CDIO outline consisting of basic knowledge of
engineering, person competence, team interpersonal
competence and systemic competence of engineering are
not applied in neither planning nor operation of talents
training project.
III. CDIO TALENTS TRAINING MODE OF IE
PROFESSIONALS
A. The purpose of talents training of IE professionals
Explore the talents training mode of IE professionals
based on CDIO engineering education concept and IE
major cultivation program in existence, in order to
determine the joint of colleges, enterprises and students as
soon as possible, enhance thinking skill, quality,
engineering background and ability of practice widely and
optimize comprehensive competence of students.
Demand
from
enterprises
joint
Professional Employmen
education t of students
B. Basic idea of talents training of IE professionals
C. Implementation of talents training of IE professionals
1) Optimize the talents training project of IE in
existence, and determine the integrative curriculum
system with CDIO.
Setup of curriculum, with four aspects of CDIO
Based on engineering competence of IE students with
CDIO
Training of
engineering
education
competence of
teachers
problems
l
ua t
in en
nt em
co rov
p
im
Build up the talents training mode of IE major
directed by CDIO, based on which system of curriculum
should be developed according to the demand of
competence level. Teachers should receive training on
skill of engineering education, so as to possess high level
competence of engineering education to get technical
support for developing project and heuristic education and
correlative practice. It is necessary to establish continual
improvement security system on education quality project,
make an improvement step by step in planning of training
as well as in ideal and method of education, reform
engineering education, and actualize the combination of
education, employment and demand. Figure 1 indicates
the basic idea that help build up talents training mode of
IE major with CDIO.
Training of
active learning
methods of
students
Setup of integrative curriculum system of IE talents
training with CDIO
Fig.1. Basic idea of reformation of talents training mode
of CDIO professionals majored in IE
consisting of basic knowledge of engineering, person
competence, team interpersonal competence, and systemic
competence of engineering, is the foundation of realizing
training of students. It is meaningful to analyze the
relationship between professional curriculum and CDIO
competence, and perform a good beginning of engineering
education. The planning of curriculum is indicated in
figure 2.
Curriculum project
Graduation project
Practice of mechanics
professional comprehensive
experiment
Social investigation
Professional comprehensive
practical project
Production exercitation
Education of team work
competence
Education of engineering
system competence
Curriculum ofscience
Core curriculum of IE
Curriculum of humanism
Core curriculum of mechanics
Core curriculum of
management
Social investigation and
writing practice
Education of individual
quality
Education of basic knowledge
of engineering
Fig.2. Planning of curriculum of IE major with CDIO
Education of basic engineering knowledge is led
by professional curriculum. Every type of curriculum
should be developed by the reformation of teaching
way. The main curriculum are adjusted, of which 20％
of teaching hours will be used to comprehensive
practical training.
Education of systemic competence on engineering is
led by practice. Based on the practical training (including
experiments) in class, a new training plan of IE major is
drawn to add more teaching hours, develop more
comprehensive practice. Curriculum project, exercitation
of different grade, professional practice by the integrative
skill, professional comprehensive experiment, and the
graduation project are suited to satisfy CDIO. Students’
engineering skill will be represented during the practice.
Team work competence is developed by a teaching
method that provides some project accomplished by more
than one student. The core curriculum is determined and
provides more chance for students on team work, which
will be helpful for students to form team spirit and
method.
The quality-oriented education is developed by the
elective course provided for students from different
majors and the comprehensive quality compulsive course
established by university. In addition, instruction of the
Training of engineering education
competence of the teacher of IE major
major is provided, and managers from enterprises, experts
and scholars are invented to share in professional quality.
It is also useful for team work.
2) Realize engineering education, lead and impart
student’s active learning competence.
Engineering education competence of teachers
includes two aspects, the training of engineering for
teachers and teaching method of engineering, which is
indicated by the update of teaching content, teaching
method and teaching measures. Importing a problem in
the way of project, teachers lead students to explore, think,
practice, summarize and evaluate. It is useful for students
to learn something new actively and solve engineering
problem systematically. See figure 3.
3) Focus on comprehensive ability, satisfy
enterprises’ demand and make a combination between
professional education and employment of students.
The final purpose of engineering education is
Put
forward a
problem
method
purpose
Practice in
enterprises for
teachers
Teaching content
improvement for IE
major
Scientific reach
for teachers
Teaching measures
improvement for IE
major
Employ experts
from enterprises as
practical teachers
Teaching method
improvement for IE
major
Problem
leading
Problem
guidance
Explore the
problem
Thinking and data
analysis
Design and practice
Summarization and
communication
learn something new actively and solve
engineering problem systematically
Fig.3. The training process combining engineering competence for teachers and active learning competence for students
based on CDIO
transforming knowledge learned by students into
productivities. In another word, the joint of three factors
should be the final purpose of exploration for IE talents.
Based on the exercitation bases in existence, more new
exercitation bases should be built up continually. More
tutors from exercitation bases will be employed. The
combination between heaviest of scientific research and
teaching content should be encouraged, so that students
can get instruction directly by professional teachers and
technician from enterprises both in laboratories and
enterprises.
4) Education quality engineering, as well as
enterprise quality engineering, should follow the principle
of PDCA that means cyclic process of continual quality
improvement. Correlative management mechanism will
be build up to ensure continual improvement.
As support and safeguard of the whole project,
teaching management system, teaching operation system
and teaching quality control system of the IE major is a
necessity. Dynamic improvement system is to be built, to
follow the industrial upgrade of manufacturing in
Zhejiang Province and satisfy the social requirement.
Demand conditions for talents are investigated to obtain
the information of the knowledge structure and skills
requirement of IE talents from manufacturing. What’s
more, the system evaluates the IE talents training mode
with CDIO.
IV. CONCLUSIONS
The purpose of IE talent training is to build a system
with direction of CDIO and mutual support curriculum
system. Let students obtain experience of active learning.
Good continual operation security management system
will help students of IE major to be modern IE engineers
with deep foundational knowledge of mechanical
engineering, ability of developing and operating new
system, management for new product and other
comprehensive application competence. Through the
exploration for talents training mode for many years, the
IE students from Zhejiang University of Technology are
always highly appreciated in manufacturing in
Zhejiang Province.
REFERENCES
[1] Edward F. Crawley, Gu PeiHua, trans. “To recognize the
engineering education- international CDIO training mode
and method”, Higher Education Press，2009.
[2] Pei-Hua Gu, Min-fen Shen, “From CDIO to
EIP-CDIO--Shantou university engineering education and
talent training mode to explore”, Higher Engineer
Education Research, Jan.2008.
[3] Dong Qiu，“21 century industrial engineering construction
and talent education”, Consume Guide, Nov.2007.
[4] Yue-jin Zhou, “Construction characteristic with industrial
engineering”, Industrial Engineering, Api.2008.
[5] Yun-ping Wang， Chao-xun, Sheng “Different economies
manufacturing
recovery
path
and
background
countermeasures”, China's economic and trade journal,
Dec.2011.
[6] Bi-Jian Zhou, “The new trend of development of the global
manufacturing
industry”,
http://www.drri.gov.cn/32749-1439/66829_17654.html,
Oct.2009.
[7] Wei-ping Yang ， Wen-Li Shi ， “Industrial engineering
construction and talent training mode is discussed”, Journal
of Kunming university of Science and Technology（JCR
Social Science Edition）, Api.2006.
[8] Li-jun Liu, “Discussed with industrial engineering college
construction”, Modern Chinese education equipment,
Oct.2007.
[9] Hao-ping Li, Zi-fan Fang, Ying Wang, “Nearly Major in
machine of industry engineering professional training mode
study practice”, China Electric Power Education, Jan.2011.
[10] Xiao-ying Yang, Jian-hai Han, Wei-feng Fan, “Industrial
engineering major orientation and talent training mode
study”, Educational management of universities, Jan. 2007.