A Curriculum Design Approach by the Means of a General Morphological Analysis
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The context of conceiving, designing, implementing, and operating real-world systems and products, namely the CDIO initiative, is a framework for engineering education. It considers 12 standards, which are the reference for curriculum design and assessment. A good implementation of the CDIO standards can be considered as a multi-dimensional complex problem. In order to propose strategies for implementing the CDIO initiative in the Electronic Engineering curriculum at Universidad del Quindío, the General Morphological Analysis (GMA) was used. Some relevant dimensions of the curriculum and their values were contrasted in a cross-consistency assessment (CCA), where 8 dimensions were established, and a total of 34,560 combinations were obtained in the problem space. Through the CCA, the number of coherent combinations was significantly reduced. Finally, these combinations were analyzed to propose the corresponding strategies that are the input for the implementation of the CDIO curriculum in the Electronic Engineering program.
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