APPLYING PROJECT-BASED LEARNING METHOD TO MEET LEARNING OUTCOMES OF CDIO-BASED TRAINING PROGRAMS

In the integration and development period, training students, which probably meets the urgent requirements of the companies, businesses in professional and soft skills, is becoming a challenge for all universities as well as for the teachers. To accomplish these requirements, CDIO-based training program not only requires students in criteria about knowledge, skills, and behaviors but also be an expert in the technical design process: conceive, design, implement and operate the systems in the entrepreneurial, social and environmental background. Therefore, how can students be skilled in both soft skills and specialist knowledge, but still meet the CDIO requirements? Based on these things, the authors propose solution to integrate soft skills into teaching specialized knowledge through project-basedbusiness method which helps students satisfy  specialized knowledge and soft skills directly related to future careers, and meet CDIO requirements.