European initiative on CDIO in raw material programmes
Paper i proceeding, 2017
One of five Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), was launched in Europe in 2014
and has its focus on exploration, extraction, mineral processing, metallurgy, recycling and
material substitution of raw materials. To reach the vision, where the European Union’s
industrial strength is based on a cost-efficient, secure, sustainable supply and use of raw
materials, a new generation of skilled people entering industry, universities and research
needs to be developed. Today’s technical MSc graduates in raw materials and especially
primary resources (i.e. exploration, extraction, mining and mineral processing and metallurgy)
best suits large companies where they often act as specialists and experts. For small to
medium enterprises as well as for our future engineers other skills than technical are
necessary. As a part of the KIC Raw Materials, the education project “The implementation of
CDIO in raw material programmes” started in 2016. The project focuses, during 2016-2017,
on (WP1) faculty- and (WP2) pilot case development. There are no academic institutes in
Europe that have yet applied CDIO for primary resource related MSc programmes. This
paper describes an education project within the KIC Raw material and presents key outputs
with implementing CDIO in mining and metallurgy related programmes.
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raw materials
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Faculty development