Full Program
Sunday 1 June
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Platform 28, 82 Village Street, Docklands
Welcome Reception & Pre-Registration
Monday 2 June
8:00am | Registration Desk Opens
8:30am - 9:15am
Auditorium, Monash College
Conference Opening:
Professor Nicoleta Maynard, CDIO2025 Conference Chair
Professor Yiannis Ventikos, Dean of Engineering, Monash University
Welcome to Country:
Wurundjeri Elder Colin Hunter Jnr and Ganga Giri
9:15am - 10:00am
Auditorium, Monash College
Keynote Presentation
Madeleine McManus OAM, Chair, Yarra Trams; Global Director, Robogals and CEO, Centre for Professional Engineering Education
10:00am - 10:30am | Morning Tea
10:30am - 12:00pm
1A – Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies
Room 9.41
Session Chair: Katerina Yang
120 – Using immersive virtual experiment to develop safety mindset and process operation skills
Yunyi Wong
Ai Ye Oh
Katerina Yang
Sin-Moh Cheah
182 – Secure local generative AI coding assistant: a CDIO approach
Zineb Hidila
Mohamed Tabaa
111 – Designing a digital twin virtual lab for PLC applications
Chew Lin Chia
Rick Chua
Toh Yen Pang
Alex Kootsookos
George Wu
Chi-Tsun Cheng
1B – Workshop
Room 9.42
102 – Developing teamwork skills through the “player” peer feedback model
McKenna Sperry
Samantha Jones
Nicole Larson
Thomas O’Neill
1C – Roundtable Discussions
Room 9.43
176 – Challenges in design- implement projects in student groups with diverse academic backgrounds
Dag Raudberget
Patrik Cannmo
1D – CDIO Intro Workshop
Room 9.44
Session 1 – Impact and benefits of CDIO approach to engineering education
Helene Leong
Working Groups
Room 9.52
Mark Nivan Singh
Room 9.53
Suzanne Brink
Juha Kontio
Reidar Lyng
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch
1:00pm - 2:40pm
2A – Sustainability in Engineering Education
Room 9.41
Session Chair: Zhengping Liow
152 – Assessing sustainability in Kuwait’s higher education institutions’ engineering curricula
Hassan Salti
Hania El-Kanj
Suad Alradhwan
Fadi Alkhatib
Mohammed Abdul-Niby
178 – Pathways to sustainability in engineering education: a constructively aligned change in framework
Tommaso Mondovì
Anna Wieczorek
142 – Community-engaged problem-based learning (CE-PBL): preparing sustainable energy experts for applied contexts
Mominul Hasan
Bernd Moeller
Wulf Boie
112 – Contexualized roadmap to advancing sustainability in school of electrical & electronic engineering
Chew Lin Chia
Sin-Moh Cheah
105 – Inculcating sustainability mindsets in students from architecture education through CDIO framework
Zhengping Liow
Sin-Moh Cheah
2B – Workshop
Room 9.42
MATLAB Workshops
Part 1 – 1:00pm- 1:50pm
Automatically grade problems and provide real-time feedback using MATLAB Grader
Emmanuel Blanchard
Daniel Lim
Part 2 – 1:50pm- 2:40pm
Improving learning outcomes in mechanical engineering dynamics
Emmanuel Blanchard
Daniel Lim
2C – Roundtable Discussions
Room 9.43
175 – Curriculum agility narratives roundtable
Suzanne Brink
Carl Johan Carlsson
2D – CDIO Intro Workshop
Room 9.44
Session 2 – Purpose, tools and resources of the CDIO initiative
Juha Kontio
Joanne Tanner
Working Group
Room 9.52
Mark Nivan Singh
2:40pm - 3:00pm | Afternoon Tea
3:00pm - 4:30pm
3A – From Inclusion to Integrity: Educating Engineers for Social Impact
Room 9.41
Session Chair: Vairavel Gurusamy
Elizabeth McCarthy
Aster Cosmos
Dana Bui
Helmy Cook
Prudence Perry
192 – Challenge based learning: cultivating social responsibilty in a community connect course
Vairavel Gurusamy
Dhanenthiran M
146 – Closing the gap in engineering education: a positive psychology approach to CDIO
Nikdokht Ghadiminia
Salman Saeidlou
Anne Nortcliffe
125 – Embedding ethics and professional responsibility in engineering education: preparing future engineers for industry 5.0
Isam Zabalawi
Khalil Khanafer
Mohammed Abdul-Niby
3B – Workshop
Room 9.42
138 – Innovating education to foster change agents for sustainability challenges
Tommaso Mondovì
Marcello Sala
Anna Wieczorek
Chantal Brans
Isabelle Reymen
3C – Roundtable Discussions
Room 9.43
107 – Using CDIO for non-engineering programs
Sin-Moh Cheah
Mark Nivan Singh
Zhengping Liow
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Room 9.55
CDIO Council Meeting
Tuesday 3 June
8:30am | Registration Desk Opens
9:00am - 9:15am
Auditorium
Welcome
10:00am - 10:20am | Morning Tea
10:20am - 12:00pm
4A – Industry Collaboration and Perspectives
Room 9.41
Session Chair: Svante Gunnarsson
151 – Building scalable industry collaboration in engineering education through the CDIO framework
Marika Säisä
Annukka Kinnari
163 – Developing quality management competencies in software engineering: a CDIO approach
Marika Säisä
Annukka Kinnari
126 – A framework for the teaching of autonomous mobile robotics
Aldo André Díaz-Salazar
José Rafael Rebêlo Teles
José Gabriel Rebêlo Teles
Eduardo Dias Peixoto
Alexandre Costa Ferro Filho
Nigel Joseph Bandeira Dias
Svante Gunnarsson
122 – Commercial pilot education: aligning EASA 100 KSA with CDIO standards
Doris Novak
Tomislav Josip Mlinarić
Davor Mistrić
Petar Andraši
171 – Transforming technical education through industry-institute collaboration ecosystem
Jerold John Britto John
Sivaprakasam Rajakarunakaran
Ganesan Lakshmanan
Gurusamy Vairavel
4B – Workshop
Room 9.42
159 – Australia-Asia nomadic curriculum design
Arlinta Barus
Siegfried Rouvrais
Haraldur Audunsson
Eka Sinambela
Sari Silalahi
4C – Roundtable Discussions
Room 9.43
Sin-Moh Cheah
Thijs Willems
4D – CDIO Intro Workshop
Room 9.44
Session 3 – Using the CDIO Syllabus and Standards in educational development
Suzanne Brink
Reidar Lyng
Working Group
Room 9.52
Marcello Sala
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch
1:00pm - 2:40pm
5A – Transdisciplinary Approaches
Room 9.41
Session Chair: Géza Fischl
161 – Six months of engineering with CDIO approach
Yslam Orazov
Mukam Ekayev
Ulugbek Jummanov
Mekan Saipov
Nurjemal Bayramova
Dovletmyrat Porrykov
148 – Designing for diversity: soft landings and developmental portfolios in aerospace education
Yinglu Tang
Ines Uriol Balbin
Daniël Peeters
Prem Sundaramoorthy
Baris Kumru
Mahsa Sajedi
Calvin Rans
117 – Stakeholder analysis for curriculum transformation in higher engineering education
Cecile Gerwel Proches
Macdonald Kanyangale
Angela James
Arlinta Barus
Siegfried Rouvrais
Roger Waldeck
Haraldur Audunsson
Ásrún Matthíasdóttir
Valentina Dagienė
Clara Lemke
150 – Integrating language learning in engineering education: a CDIO approach at ETUT
Yslam Orazov
Lachyn Gurdova
Nurjemal Bayramova
Ulugbek Jummanov
149 – Examining architectural design projects through CDIO: preparedness, task design, feedback, and collaboration
Geza Fischl
Carlos Sauco
5B – Sustainability in Engineering Education
Room 9.42
Session Chair: Marisol Rico-Cortez
103 – Using CDIO for development of students’ sustainability mindset
Sin-Moh Cheah
Katerina Yang
Zhengping Liow
Yunyi Wong
Chew-Lin Chia
Erwin Wouterson
154 – Resilience in engineering education: exploring industrial skills towards sustainable synergies
Marisol Rico-Cortez
Elvira Kaneberg
156 – Approach to developing key competencies for sustainability in chemical engineering using CDIO
Katerina Yang
Sin-Moh Cheah
Yunyi Wong
118 – CDIO peer-to-peer support on education for sustainable development: experience from pilot run
Katerina Yang
Sin-Moh Cheah
Divina Gracia D. Ronquillo
Rhonalyn Maulion
Mary Rose F. Persincula
Ai Ye Oh
Juha Kontio
127 – Green growth and CDIO approach in food engineering: initiative and implementation model
Thi Viet Ha Phan
Anand Nayyar
Anh-Quang Dao
5C – Workshop
Room 9.43
162 – Using student personas and learner journey mapping for increased inclusivity in teaching
Suzanne Brink
5D – CDIO Intro Workshop
Room 9.44
Session 4 – CDIO Collaboration and Community
Matthew Murphy
Working Group
Room 9.52
Marcello Sala
2:40pm - 3:00pm | Afternoon Tea
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Free time to explore Melbourne
Working Group
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Room 9.53
Future of CDIO – Working Towards 4.0
Suzanne Brink
Juha Kontio
Reidar Lyng
6:00pm - 9:00pm
The Bank on Collins, 394 Collins Street, Melbourne
Conference Dinner
Wednesday 4 June
8:30am | Registration Desk Opens
9:00am - 9:15am
Auditorium
Welcome
9:15am - 10:00am
Auditorium
Keynote Presentation: Strengthening CDIO
Emeritus Professor James Trevelyan, Engineer, Educator, Researcher & Entrepreneur
10:00am - 10:20am | Morning Tea
10:20am - 12:00pm
6A – Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies
Room 9.41
Session Chair: May Lim
189 – Verbal peer feedback in project based learning course: insights from Microsoft Teams meeting recaps
May Lim
106 – Continual improvement: sense-making of convergence of institutional initiatives on digital technologies
Sin-Moh Cheah
Mark Nivan Singh
115 – Enhancing technicians’ knowledge of CDIO through generative AI
Mark Nivan Singh
185 – Developing an AI expert to support student learning in chemical engineering
Jane Carolyne Hantanto
Aditya Arun Advani
Michael Crocco
Joanne Tanner
6B – Curriculum
Room 9.42
Session Chair: Cesar Ortega-Sanchez
108 – Reflecting on reflections: leveraging student feedback for continuous program development
Svante Gunnarsson
Helena Herbertsson
Anders Ekinge
Malin Wiger
Magdalena Smeds
181 – The tyranny of numbers: why marking CDIO activities could be difficult
Cesar Ortega-Sanchez
133 – Integrating sense lab and project-based learning in lighting design education
Yu-Chan Chao
147 – Preparing for the future: aligning engineering competency standards
Zachery Quince
Anna Lidfors Lindqvist
Patcharin Chen
191 – How effectively are CDIO standards integrated and recognised in the food safety and quality program at the Technical University of Denmark?
Anoop Kumar Sharma
6C – Workshop
Room 9.43
168 – Peer-to-peer support: CDIO activity to share and learn
Juha Kontio
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch & Regional Meetings
1:00pm - 2:40pm
7A – Learning Environments
Room 9.41
Session Chair: Veronica Halupka
134 – Grasping structures: affordable hands-on column buckling activity for first-year engineering students
Marta Gavioli
Giuseppe Radaelli
Renate Klassen
Annoesjka Cabo
158 – Flipped learning to foster students’ self-directed learning: a study of first year students’ self-directed learning competencies
Mei Yee Chan
Gavin Bryan Lee
Kian Chee Loh
Helene Leong
144 – Enhancing learning outcomes by using some electronic technologies
Darkhantsetseg Batsumber
Temuujin Altansukh
153 – CDIO learning space in digital transformation: a case at Vinh University, Vietnam
Huong Thi Pham
Tien Tran Ba
Yen Hai Hoang Phan
Ai Vinh Le Nguyen
Elizabeth McCarthy
Veronica Halupka
Lila Azouz
7B – Workshop
Room 9.42
174 – Curriculum agility quick scan of your education
Suzanne Brink
Carl Johan Carlsson
Reidar Lyng
7C – Roundtable Discussions
Room 9.43
119 – Experiences in sustainability mindset and education for sustainable development using CDIO
Sin-Moh Cheah
Katerina Yang
2:40pm - 3:00pm | Afternoon Tea
3:00pm - 4:30pm
8A – Educational Research and Innovation
Room 9.41
Session Chair: Andrei-Raoul Morariu
173 – Examples of enablers for curriculum agility
Suzanne Brink
Carl Johan Carlsson
Mikael Enelund
Sonia M. Gomez Puente
Elizabeth Keller
Reidar Lyng
Charles McCartan
Remon Rooij
139 – Defining challenge based learning and education in the autonomous shipping context
Peter Sandell
Johanna Salokannel
Andrei-Raoul Morariu
Anastasia Tsvetkova
Victor Bolbot
Jouni Saarni
Jouni Isoaho
Seppo Virtanen
190 – Designing a tool to measure innovation competence perception in engineering students
Ignacio González-Aravena
Gerardo Baro
Horacio Buldrini
140 – A challenge based education framework for autonomous shipping
Peter Sandell
Johanna Salokannel
Andrei-Raoul Morariu
Anastasia Tsvetkova
Victor Bolbot
Jouni Isoaho
Jouni Saarni
Seppo Virtanen
Sin-Moh Cheah
Thijs Willems
8B – Supporting Educators: Strategies for Development, Outreach and Innovation
Room 9.42
Session Chair: Tony Vo
116 – Operationalizing CDIO engineering learning workspaces in East Kazakhstan Technical University
Zhadyra Konurbayeva
Samat Baigereyev
Kim-Fai Soh
Sin-Moh Cheah
113 – Active learning community for professional development: a CDIO standard 10 implementation model
Geok Ling Soo-Ng
Zhengping Liow
143 – Engineering clean water solutions: a chemical engineering outreach activity for secondary students
Joanne Tanner
Poh Xian Tay
155 – Bridging technical and leadership competencies: integrating CDIO with the SUSI YWLP
Chynar Garlyyeva
Ayna Annayeva
Jennet Mowlamova
Sodgerel Gansukh
Gurbangul Sapargeldiyeva
Ayshirin Soltanmyradova
Yslam Orazov
8C – Roundtable Discussions
Room 9.43
167 – The future of CDIO
Juha Kontio
Reidar Lyng
Suzanne Brink
8D – CDIO Intro Workshop
Room 9.44
Session 5 – Feedback
Thursday 5 June
9:00am - 10:30am
Monash University, Clayton Campus (Meet at Woodside Building, 20 Exhibition Walk)
10:30am - 10:50am | Morning Tea
10:50am - 1:15pm
Room 1.02, Woodside Building for Technology and Design, Monash University
CDIO Academy Presentations
Working Groups Presentations
Awards Presentation
Closing Ceremony
1:15pm - 2:00pm | Lunch
2:00pm - 2:45pm
Room 1.02, Woodside Building for Technology and Design, Monash University
How Digital Engineering Technologies can be used to enhance Engineering Education: Focus on Augmented Reality (AR) & Internet of Things (IoT) technologies
Imran Muthaliph, LEAP Australia
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Room 2.07, Woodside Building for Technology and Design, Monash University
CDIO Council Meeting