The CDIO 2018 conference will begin with a welcome party on Thursday, June 28. The three-day program for June 29th to July 1st will include keynote speeches on state-of-the-art topics in Engineering Education, scholarly presentations including poster sessions, and Engineering Education workshops. Presentations by new CDIO collaborators, regional meetings, and other working-group sessions are scheduled for July 2nd, the final day.
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The detailed Conference Program is available here.
The list of Papers and to be presented at the conference is available here.
The list of Workshops and Roundtables to be delivered at the conference is available here.
View the opening ceremony here. 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
TERESA BALSER (TERI)
John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Dean, Teaching and Learning
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University
Professor Teri Balser is Dean of Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University, where she came after having been Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Florida. She received a Ph.D. in soil microbiology from the University of California at Berkeley, and she completed postdoctoral research in ecosystem ecology at Stanford University. Chosen as an NSF Early Career award winner in 2006, and currently a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, her research interests range from restoration ecology, to sustainability of managed systems, to microbial stress responses and soil carbon sequestration. Her primary aim is to understand the role of microbial community ecology and ecophysiology in ecosystem functioning, specifically carbon and nutrient cycling.
In addition to international recognition as an accomplished research scholar, Professor Balser is recognized as a master teacher, and has received numerous accolades for her educational accomplishments including a USDA National Excellence in College and University Teaching Award in 2009 and recognition as the 2010 U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching). More recently, she was announced as one of three finalists for the 2016 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the largest teaching prize in the English-speaking world.
Dr. Balser is widely known in higher education as a change agent and leader in STEM. She is a co-founder of the Society for Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), a National Vision and Change Fellow with the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE), and was a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair to India in 2015 to help build capacity at the national level for pedagogically advanced and responsive STEM education. She has long been an active advocate, speaker, and workshop facilitator in research, leadership and teaching across the sciences and engineering.
Dr. Kazuo KYUMA
President
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Former Executive Member, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office
Former Executive Vice President, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Dr. Kazuo Kyuma was born in Tokyo in 1949. He graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering in 1972, and Ph.D. degree also in Electronic Engineering in 1977. That same year, he joined the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. He was assigned at the Central Research Laboratory (presently known as Advanced Technology R&D Center) and was responsible for the promotion of R&D and commercialization of optical fiber sensors, optical neurochips, artificial retina chips, image processing systems etc. Then he was promoted to executive positions notably as General Manager of the Advanced Technology R&D Center, Executive Officer of the Corporate R&D, and Senior Vice President of the Semiconductor & Device Business Group. He was named as Executive Vice-President of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in 2011 and as Senior Corporate Advisor in 2012.
Dr. Kyuma served the Cabinet Office as executive member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy in 2013 and as executive member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation in 2014. Then in April 2018, he assumed his current position as President of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization.
He has been a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology, and part-time lecturer of several universities including the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka University, Kobe University, and Keio University.
Dr. Kyuma has been honored for his work and received several recognitions such as the Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Award from the Optoelectronics Industry and Technology Development Association (1991), Okochi Memorial Technology Prize (2000), Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation Award (2001), and the New Technology Development Foundation Ichimura Prize (1996).
He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Optical Society of America, Applied Physics Society, Electronic Information Communications Association, Institute of Measurement Automatic Control, and Laser Society of Japan. He is also a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan.
From March 2013 to February 2018, Dr. Kyuma served as a full-time executive member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation under the leadership of the Prime Minister and the Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy. He participated in the comprehensive planning and coordination of the science and technology innovation policy, contributed in the establishment and promotion of new national projects such as ImPACT and SIP, and the conceptualization of Japan’s societal transformation plan known as Society 5.0.
Dr. Kyuma has been appointed as President of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization from April 2018, and is currently promoting science and technology innovations in food and agriculture by strengthening cooperation with the industrial sectors, agricultural sectors, universities, and research organizations.
Dr. Satoko Fukahori
Visiting Senior Researcher, National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan.
Professor, Kyushu University, The University Education Innovation Initiative, Planning and Evaluation Division.
Dr. Fukahori received her Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Teachers College in 2000. After serving as an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo and associate professor at Kyoto Women’s University and Junior College, she obtained a position as Senior Researcher of the Department for Higher Education Research at the National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan in 2008. Since then, she has engaged in various global projects related to quality assurance of higher education and assessment of learning outcomes and was appointed Director of the Department for Higher Education Research in 2016. Her main areas of research include Comparative Education, Educational Sociology, and Higher Education.
Dr. Fukahori is the lead researcher of “Global Quality Assurance of Higher Education based on Tuning: Focusing on the Tuning Test Item Bank in the Field of Mechanical Engineering”, in which she discusses the potential of “test item banks” as a tool to generate among faculty a common understanding of abstract level disciplinary competence frameworks, through collaborative development of test items requiring concrete level discussions of learning outcomes. Additionally, she serves as a committee member of the Science Council of Japan (Psychology/Education Committee, Special Committee to Deliberate Disciplinary Reference Points for Education), a member of the Board of Directors, Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE), and a member of the Evaluation Committee, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO).