Tag Archives: CDIO

Success in study and career highly depends on grit

Posted on 01/11/2018 by Aldert Kamp

September 15, 2018 TU Delft was thrilled by the success of the Human Power Team. This student team won the world speed challenge for women for cycling in the Nevada desert with a speed of 120 km/h. Two weeks later, … Continue reading →

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Can staff competencies sufficiently be enhanced through Kaizen?

Posted on 28/07/2018 by Aldert Kamp

Today’s higher engineering education faces an existential crisis. The changing world of work, the blurring of boundaries between disciplines and between industry and academic boundaries, the rise of continuous learning, the evolving globalisation and digital behaviour, and the increasing international … Continue reading →

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Joint Interdisciplinary Master Project at TU Delft: the idea whose time has come.

Posted on 03/06/2018 by Aldert Kamp

Thursday 24 May, Buccaneer Delft, the 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education, TU Delft staff, students, and industries organised the kick-off of the so-called Joint Interdisciplinary Project (JIP) pilot for about 30 Master engineering students. The location was  special: the Buccaneer, a … Continue reading →

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Teaching technology innovation and Reframing academic careers with an educational accent

Posted on 17/03/2018 by Aldert Kamp

My one but previous post was about the confluence of talent development, discovery and innovation at Skoltech, using the CDIO framework. At that same gathering the 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education took the opportunity to run workshops about topics that really … Continue reading →

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Following the CDIO framework Skoltech develops into a powerhouse for innovation and talent development

Posted on 25/02/2018 by Aldert Kamp

Visiting a massive campus building under construction in an extensive technology park which is under development at the same time. Understanding the impact of CDIO thinking on the development of Skoltech. Discussing a career development framework that has an accent … Continue reading →

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Russia’s catching up on active forms of engineering education

Posted on 28/10/2017 by Aldert Kamp

As the Co-director of the CDIO Initiative I was invited for a Russian national conference 25-26 October at a place that was not directly on my mind: Surgut, city in northwest Siberia on the Ob River, about 400,000 inhabitants and … Continue reading →

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Educating engineers for a resource constrained future: do we understand what we are doing?

Posted on 14/01/2017 by Aldert Kamp

Has it ever been different? “Engineering Opportunities in a Resource Constrained Future”. When I read this theme of the CDIO European Regional Meeting at Trinity College Dublin on 12-13 January 2017 the very first time, I wondered: “Has it ever … Continue reading →

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An innovative educational framework that lies on your doorstep

Posted on 23/12/2016 by Aldert Kamp

Most curriculum innovations fail As a board member of the Educational Leadership Course that is organised under the sponsorship of Erasmus University, TU Delft and University Leiden (LDE), I reviewed the application files of the 17 candidates for the course … Continue reading →

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