Experiences with Multi-National, Multi-Semester Design Team Projects

Author

Groll, Eckhard A. ; Krousgrill, Charles M. ; Meckl, Peter H. ; Hirleman, E. Daniel

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

fYear

2006

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

17

Abstract

This paper describes the experiences gained by the instructors of the first three multinational, multisemester design team project classes of the Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE). The experiences with respect to technical challenges, communication within the assigned groups, leveraging the different educational backgrounds, technology transfer to supporting entities, interactions between students and support staff, transfer of credits and grades, and lessons learned are outlined in this paper

Keywords

design engineering; engineering education; team working; technology transfer; GEARE; Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education; educational backgrounds; multinational multisemester design team projects; support staff; technology transfer; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering students; Europe; Knowledge engineering; Mechanical engineering; Natural languages; Outsourcing; Technology transfer; Design project; Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education; Multi-national; Multi-semester;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 36th Annual

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0256-5

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2006.322341

Filename

4116833