Abstract:

Two years ago a new program development and design was presented at INTED. At that stage very little had been implemented. Many envied the opportunity to design a new education with flipped classroom and CDIO integrated from start. At the same time the University initiatied many centrally lead initiatives to integrate sustainability and equality into existing and mature engineering programs. The new program and other early adopters to new requirements for equality and sustainability as well as CDIO now find themselves ahead and yet not well suited to adopt mandatory central modules.

So this paper follows the first paper and continue to follow the development and implementation of a new program, now with three year students as well as with newly developed program courses in a mature and well-established program.

Interoperability is a system theory concept and describes how system of systems has challenges to work well together as a whole. Especially due to the many different life cycle phases that different system or components are. In this paper we describe programs as system of systems of courses and various independent actors (teachers) as well as the interdependencies between courses in progression and integrated aspects such as sustainability and equality.

The study is designed as case studies of two years of program development and CDIO standard for program assessment in one all new program and one well established one, yet both are praoctive when it comes to compliance to new centrally required educational innovation.

Keywords:

Interoperability, educational program, system of system, CDIO, development, implementation.