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European Global Product Realization Course I

Teaching: Completely taught in English

ECTS: 4

Level: Graduate

Semester: Summer

Prerequisites:

Passed exam "Product development".

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Lectures	Exercises	Laboratory exercises	Project laboratory	Physical education excercises	Field exercises	Seminar	Design exercises	Practicum
15		0	30	0	0	0	0	0

Course objectives:

The Global Product Realization (GPR) course is an academic virtual enterprise, consisting of four universities from Milano, Wienna, Ljubljana and Zagreb and one industrial partner. The human resources of the academic enterprise are the academic instructors, university students and company specialists. The enterprise is formed for one study semester. The primary goals of the enterprise are to gain the professional and communication knowledge and the solution of the practical problem, assigned by the partner company. The people involved in the EGPR course will be brought together by advanced communication means, where videoconferencing is considered as the key communication tool. The students will gradually gain knowledge by attending lectures, given by renowned professors and other experts and professionals. Student international teams will be formed to bring together their knowledge from different fields to try to solve the problems arising from the assignment. The teams will then elaborate and present their research work during common sessions. At the end of the semester, students will develop physical prototypes

Student responsibilities:

Lecture attendance, participation in working process of international teams formed of students from 5 universities. Making of presentations and reports, participation in final workshop where product prototype is being produced.

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

During the semester students are working on project which has three review points. On each review point the students (teams) have to present results of their work in that particular project phase. They have to make an extensive report and deliver the presentation through videoconferencing equipment. On final workshop students are making the developed product prototype in cooperation with industrial partner. Every student team has one teacher which acts like a team "coach" - continuously monitoring and advising the teamwork as a whole and the work of each student individually.

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