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The 15th International CDIO Conference: Proceedings â Full Papers
The 15th international CDIO conference was held at Aarhus University from 25 June 2019 to 27 June 2019 with activities on 24 and 28 June. The main theme of the 15th International CDIO Conference was CHANGE in Engineering Education.
The conference programme included:
Keynotes
General presentations
Working groups
Workshops
Round tables
Social events
CDIO Academy (A CDIO experience for students
The 15th International CDIO Conference: Proceedings â Full Papers
We discuss a conceptual thesis structure model and visual tool for enhancing the writing process in the context of an engineering Masterâs thesis. Our model is based on visualizing the thesis as a series of funnels that adjust the writing focus to the desired scope in each individual chapter. At the end of the thesis, the focus is widened back into the original topic area with a reflection on how the solutions proposed in the thesis have impacted or potentially will impact the field. Using our model gives students the opportunity to write a good Masterâs thesis in various engineering disciplines. In our experience, the Focus Funnel approach has been very useful and effective, resulting in an overall improvement in the quality of engineering Masterâs theses in our degree program.</p
Design as Democratic Inquiry
Through practices of collaborative imagination and making, or "doing design otherwise,â design experiments can contribute to keeping local democracies vibrant. In this counterpoint to the grand narratives of design punditry, Carl DiSalvo presents what he calls âdoing design otherwise.â Arguing that democracy requires constant renewal and care, he shows how designers can supply novel contributions to local democracy by drawing together theory and practice, making and reflection. The relentless pursuit of innovation, uncritical embrace of the new and novel, and treatment of all things as design problems, says DiSalvo, can lead to cultural imperialism. In Design as Democratic Inquiry, he recounts a series of projects that exemplify engaged design in practice. These experiments in practice-based research are grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. The projects DiSalvo describes took place from 2014 to 2019 in Atlanta. Rather than presume that government, industryâor academiaâshould determine the outcome, the designers began with the recognition that the residents and local organizations were already creative and resourceful. DiSalvo uses the projects to show how design might work as a mode of inquiry. Resisting heroic stories of design and innovation, he argues for embracing design as fragile, contingent, partial, and compromised. In particular, he explores how design might be leveraged to facilitate a more diverse civic imagination. A fundamental tenet of design is that the world is made, and therefore it could be made differently. A key concept is that democracy requires constant renewal and care. Thus, designing becomes a way to care, together, for our collective future
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