{"id":985,"date":"2019-12-18T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=985"},"modified":"2022-01-20T10:41:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T10:41:24","slug":"engineering-students-complete-their-first-cdio-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/engineering-students-complete-their-first-cdio-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Students Complete their First CDIO Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Students from the University\u2019s Foundation Year courses in Engineering have completed their first projects, working together to find creative solutions to real world issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

One of the projects was assigned to the students by Whitstable company Barton Marine (www.bartonmarine.com<\/a>). Founded nearly 80 years ago, the company makes specialist and innovative equipment for dinghies, yachts and power boats. It is currently working with a company in Latvia to develop a new roof-track system for boats and has tasked the students to design their own product that will be robust enough to use for their client.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dermot Bealey, Operations Manager for Barton Marine with students involved in the roof-track system CDIO project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dermot Bealey, Operations Manager for\nBarton Marine explained: \u201cFollowing some conversations\nbetween the University and ourselves it was decided that we could help each\nother as we have some projects that need working on, and the students need\nprojects to work on, to gain experience and skills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re developing a\nroof-track system for a company in Latvia and we need to make it more robust.\nWe have asked the students to design their own product that has the potential\nto be used as a solution. Everything they are doing will help to go towards the\ndevelopment of this product, so it is a very relevant and real project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe try to ensure\nthat we only engineer products which stand up to our high standards of\nendurance, performance and quality. We\u2019re very impressed with the work the\nstudents have produced. We have seen a wide variety of ideas and several\npotential solutions. It\u2019s a very real problem for us and they have come up with\nideas which will help us a lot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWorking with the\nUniversity is ideal. It is a good opportunity as we\u2019re a small company, so it\noffers us more resources in both people and equipment and we can develop ideas\nthat we don\u2019t have the ability to do in house. It\u2019s a good extra resource.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collaborative CDIO projects benefit Canterbury Christ Church University students as well as the businesses who provide them. Student Abdulhamid Nour said: \u201cI really enjoyed the practical side of the project given to us by Barton Marine. They asked us to create a mechanism that can pull and release a roof opening, which we had to test it quite a few times to make sure that it wouldn\u2019t break down and work out how to improve it each time, until we arrived at the mechanism we now have.  Everyone worked hard and we\u2019re glad that it payed off.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About CDIO (Concieve, Design, Implement and Operate)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The projects the Foundation Year students are working on are part of the University\u2019s CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate Initiative) framework that is incorporated within all engineering and computing courses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christ Church is one of only a few UK universities to be accepted to the Worldwide CDIO Initiative (www.cdio.org<\/a>), a community pioneered by the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CDIO model focuses on creativity\nand problem-solving in engineering and technology education, and recognises the\ngrowing importance of close collaboration with businesses and industry.\n\nThe new approach will be critical in helping to\nnarrow the gender and participation gap in engineering and technology education\nand careers, injecting an additional 1,250 highly-skilled graduates into the\nlocal economy by 2024.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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