Kristina Edström

Kristina Edström is an educational developer with an engineering background (MSc in Eng, Chalmers), Associate Professor in Engineering Education Development at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She is engaged in engineering education development and research at KTH, in Sweden and internationally – most notably in the CDIO Initiative since 2001. Since 2024 she is also Professor in Innovation in Engineering Education at Delft University of Technology.

• Program leader for KTH Royal Institute of Technology since 2005.
• Contributor in Crawley et al (2007; 2014) Rethinking Engineering Education: The CDIO Approach, Springer.
• Member 2005-2013 in the CDIO Council on a founding member seat. From 2014-2025 she was elected on a personal mandate in the Council as member-at-large.

Research interests: Conditions for improvement of engineering education on course, curriculum, institutional, national and international level.

Selection of CDIO related publications:

• Björn, C., Edström, K., Gingnell, L., Lilliesköld, J., & Magnell, M. (2023). The nature of progression between yearly project courses. In Proceedings of the 19th International CDIO Conference, NTNU Trondheim, Norway. [pdf]
• Malmqvist, J., Lundqvist, U., Rosén, A., & Edström, K. ... & Spooner, D. (2022). The CDIO syllabus 3.0-an updated statement of goals. In Proceedings of the 18th International CDIO Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland. [pdf]
• Rosén, A., Hermansson-Järvenpää, H., Finnveden, G., & Edström, K. (2021). Experiences from Applying the CDIO Standard for Sustainable Development in Institution-Wide Program Evaluations. In Proceedings of the 17th International CDIO Conference, Chalmers University of Technology (online). [pdf]
• Edström, K., Malmqvist, J. & Roslöf, J. (Eds.). (2020). Scholarly Development of Engineering Education - the CDIO approach (Special Issue). European Journal of Engineering Education, 45(1). [pdf]
• Edström, K. (2020). Integrating the academic and professional values in Engineering education–ideals and tensions. In Technical universities: past, Present and Future (pp. 145-164). Cham: Springer International Publishing. [pdf]
• Malmqvist, J., Edström, K., & Rosén, A. (2020). CDIO standards 3.0–updates to the core CDIO standards. In Proceedings of the 16th International CDIO Conference, Chalmers University of Technology (online).  [pdf]
• Edström, K. (2020). The role of CDIO in engineering education research: Combining usefulness and scholarliness. European Journal of Engineering Education, 45(1), 113-127. [pdf]
• Edström, K., & Kolmos, A. (2014). PBL and CDIO: complementary models for engineering education development. European journal of engineering education, 39(5), 539-555. [pdf]