A Study of Undergraduate Engineering Management Education Reform Using CDIO Engineering Education Model

CDIO (conceive, design, implement, operate) is a key accomplishment of higher education reform, which is widely adopted in engineering management education and training in most engineering centric university. In order to improve the practicality of project management professionals in applied institutes under CDIO engineering education model, this paper studies the current situation of engineering management education in applied institutes and discusses a CDIO framed application-oriented institution project management model. Based on a case study conducted in engineering management education in Fujian University of Technology, the authors propose a novel roadmap and specific strategies for optimizing and reforming the engineering education curriculum and teaching pedagogies respectively in this paper.