Sustainable international experience: A collaborative teaching project

Within engineering education, there is an increasing need for providing our students with international experiences. This is most often done by exchange studies abroad. However, a majority of the students on engineering programs do not engage in any international exchange. This paper presents insights from a collaborative cross-disciplinary international project to give students international experience without having to travel. From both a sustainability perspective and a situation where e.g. a global virus outbreak stop students from travelling, solutions that give engineering students experience of working in an international setting are becoming increasingly important. Initial challenges, for the teachers involved in the project, that were addressed before the project started, included the assessment of students, the use of online collaborative tools, assessment of students and the dependence between the two courses. The learnings from the first and second iteration of the collaborative project were mainly focused around transparency, introduction of students to each other, communication, real-time issues and deadlines. By gradually remove these peripheral challenges for the students, resulting in making the students focus on the actual challenges surrounding the actual collaborative project. Even though this project is ongoing, the initial results clearly show that by integrating courses between different countries and disciplines, it is possible to create an environment that strengthens the students’ ability in teamwork, communication and addresses the cultural and professional aspects of working as an engineer in an international context

REFORMATION AND PRACTICE OF OPERATING SYSTEM COURSE BASED ON CDIO TEACHING MODE

ABSTRACT The content of Operating System course is highly theoretical and closely related to applicatio n. It emphasizes on cultivating students' ability of engineering practice. The traditional learnin g mode places great emphasis on theoretical knowledge learning, but ignores the practical a pplication of capacity-building. In connection with the characteristics and problems of Operati ng System course, CDIO teaching ideas were introduced into the course teaching. Teaching and learning method based problem-solving as well as organization based on project were u sed as the principles of the course. In this way, theories were studied in practice and practic e was guided by theories. Students were guided to explore actively and solve problems to im prove their practical ability, innovation ability and team spirit. A "strong kernel, soft shell" cour se schema was established. Students were supported to master the basic knowledge of oper ating system and obtain development capacity through team project design. Teaching metho ds of active learning and practice were implemented. Students were led from passive to activ e exploration by a variety of learning styles such as project/problem based learning, inquiry-b ased learning, research & teaching fusion learning, case teaching, etc. CDIO real training pla tform was created. Basic knowledge, personal capacity, team collaboration and social enviro nment were fused in together similar to real enterprise and social environments to train stude nts with quality practice and deepen their understanding of theoretical knowledge. Teaching t eam with school teachers and company experts who complemented each other was formed t o help students to acquire knowledge and enhance their general engineering. Theory & pract ice assessment was implemented. Basic knowledge, basic personal capacity, interpersonal c apacity and system construction capacity of student were included in course assessment. St udents' career capacity of team collaboration, communication exchange and language expre ssion was trained in this assessment. Students' practical and research learning ability can be reflected throughout the assessment results. At last, the training objective of high-level appli cation-oriented talents was achieved