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:

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.

Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:

Students activities are continuously monitored, surveys, the quality of developed prototype.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

By mastering the course the student will improve the following skills: - communication in egnlish within teamwork in multicultural and multidisciplinary environment - active usage of asynchronous and synchronous communication tools - presentation abilities - graphic and speech - organisation abilities by planning and managing a real project - experimental skills are being imporved by product prototype production - analysis of real problems together with industrial companies increases the number of different examples and problems for better mastering and understanding of basic engineering and natural sicence knowledge - social skills through training of dislocated individuals to work and learn together using videoconferencing equipment - searching and integrating of knowledge necessary for problem solving Also the student will be qualified: - to generate and select conceptual solutions of technical system and to make production documentation in the framework of dislocated teamwork and in cooperation with dislocated company.

Lectures

1. Product Lifecycle design, Eco design

2. Second project review

3. Consolidation - analysis and discussion on reports and presentations of all teams

4. Discussion with industrial partner - which concepts will be selected for detailed design and production

5. Product oriented lecture: Microelectronics and control

6. Detail designing - examples from engineering practice

7. Advanced manufacturing technologies

8. Selection of materials

9. Third project review

10. Consolidation - analysis and discussion on reports and presentations of all teams, Discussion with industrial partner - issues of manufacturing and components purchasing

11. Visit to industrial partner premises

12. Guidelines and advices for working on final workshop

13. Meeting with engineers (designers) at industrial partner premises

14. Fourth project review

15. Consolidation - analysis and discussion of the final workshop and whole course results

Exercises

1. Preparing report and presentation for 2nd project review

2. Second project review

3. Analysis of the feedback on second project review

4. Distribution of tasks for detail design

5. Detail design of chosen best concept

6. Detail design of chosen best concept

7. Detail design of chosen best concept

8. Preparing report and presentation for third project review

9. Third project review

10. Analysis of the feedback on third project review

11. Final workshop preparation - manufacturing plan, purchase/production of parts and subassemblies

12. Final workshop - manufacturing the prototype

13. Final workshop - manufacturing the prototype

14. Final workshop - manufacturing the prototype

15. Final workshop - presentation of results

Compulsory literature:

Ulrich, Eppinger: Product Design and Development, McGrawHill, 2004

Otto, Wood Product Development, Prentice Hall, 2001

B. Prasad: "Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals: Volume II: Integrated Product Development"; Prentice Hall, 1997.

J. Usher: " Integrated Product and Process Development: Methods, Tools, and Technologies"; Wiley 1998.

Crawely F. E., Malmquist J., Ostlund S., Brodeur D. R. (2007) Rethinking Engineering Education - The CDIO Approach, Springer Science + Business Media, LLC

Recommended literature:

All lectures, additional materials and guidelines are available on server on Mechanical engineering faculty in Ljubljana https: //bscw.lecad.fs.uni-lj.si/