Planning the integrated mold design course with CDIO concept

Abstract

This study aims to devise a set of mold designcourse modules that are based on conceive, design, implement,and operate (CDIO) teaching model. The goal is to cultivatefuture talents in the mold industry and to solve the globalproblem of university graduates being unable to meet practicalneeds. To coordinate with the development of industrialsystematic engineering, we devise six disciplines based on themold industry from the product life cycle and adopted the“precise mold system design practice” as the Capstone course tocarry out the integrated course design of CDIO. In LearningOutcomes, to ensure that the output meets the needs of theindustry, the subjects were designed based on the Mold DesignCompetency Projects. In Benchmarking of the ExistingCurriculum, we use the "competence project and course unitcorrelation matrix" to let teachers know what to teach, whatproportion and order? Finally, we used the course organizingprinciples, with skills and projects interwoven to develop anintegrated curriculum modular structure. That links the basicdisciplines and professional subjects with each other andsupport each other, and established a team cooperation modelto enable students to solve complex engineering problems andachieve the goal of CDIO engineering education reform. Theresearch results have been applied to the precise system designcourse of Feng Chia University. After four years ofexperimental teaching and curriculum revision, the CDIOintegrated teaching model has reached a more mature level.