Experts in Teams at Faculty of Engineering, SDU

1. Experts in Teams at Faculty of Engineering, SDU Søren Jensen Assistant professor soj@ib.sdu.dk

2. The DSMI education model • Experts in Teams focuson: • Interdiciplinarycollaboration • Innovation and entrepreneurship

3. Aimwith Experts in Teams Cross culturalcollaboration Innovation and entrepreneurship Engineering skills Basicskills

4. Experts in Teams • Youcanchooseamong a number of Theme Islands • Experts in Teams willfocusonCollaboration, Entrepreneurship and innovation Othercourses (20 ECTS ) Experts in Teams (10 ECTS) Business plan on a productideadeveloped by you and your Team Reportoncollaborativelearning Reportontechnicaldevelopment, subgroup 1 Reportontechnicaldevelopment, subgroup 1 Reportontechnicaldevelopment, subgroup 1

5. Organisation Island no 3/Theme Island supervisor 30 students in 5 – 6 Teams Island no 1/Theme Island supervisor 30 students in 5 – 6 Teams Island no 2/Theme Island supervisor 30 students in 5 – 6 Teams Island noN/Theme Island supervisor 30 students in 5 – 6 Teams Autumn 2009: approx 200 students Autumn 2010: expected 250 students

6. Island Organisation Team 1 (5-7 students) 1 Island supervisor 2-3 Technical supervisors • Teams: • 5 - 6 teams oneach Island • 2 – 3 lines of study in each team • Min. 2 students from the same line of study • Supervisors: • 1 Island supervisor (primarilycollaboration and business plan) • 1 technical supervisor per eachstudy line represented in the team • the technical supervisors are not linked to the Island, but to the • line of study

7. Learningactivitiesthrough the semester • Lectures • Recommendedreading/Tools • Project supervision • Student-to-studentteaching

8. Island Themes • The Healthy Life • The energyefficient house • Environmentalproducts • Odense Let’sPlay • 3rd worldproducts • Mekatronics • Learning and living • Formula student

9. Project examples • Claybrickswithseashellsincorporated • Biofuelterasseheater • Solar cellcoveredrooftile • Edutainmentrobotics • Building a flying robot

10. Pedagogic approach • Problembasedlearning • And the students create the problems themselfs ! • We give them a number of tools to workwith. A.o. • Collaborameter • Belbinprofile • Team rules and collaborationcontract (subjects to consider) • Island presentationday • Meeting an externalexpert • Student-to-studentteaching

11. Supervision by bothtechnical and Business/collaboration supervisor • Deliverables: • A portfolio • A coherentreportoncollaboration/business and technicals

12. Collaborameter Aim: to have the students evaluate their collaboration during the semester 1. Goal (aims and direction for the team work) 2. Results3. Management (team coordination and management of the teamwork) 4. Collaboration (social aspects) 5. Learning Culture (the team's ability to evaluate themselves)

13. Collaborationcontract Aim: to have the students set up commongoals and rules for the collaboration Collaborationcontract When drafting a collaboration contract within your team consider as a minimum the following questions: • 1. Who should be included in the collaboration contract • 2. Set up a number of team rules • 3. Team coordinator/contact person • 4. Agree on a work plan • 5. How often will you reconsider the work plan and milestones • 6. How do you make sure that the learning environment you create suit all team members • 7. What if a team member do not perform according to our agreements

14. Student-to-studentteachingactivities. Aim: to have the students exercise knowledge transfer In each Team it is required that each subgroup of students from the same study program conduct a teaching session, within their area of expertise, for the rest of the Team. The session should be documented as follows: a small report (1-2 pages) with the following items are prepared and signed by the audience part of the Team: Topic of the session. Evaluation of the session, both relevance of the topic in relation to the Business idea and planning and implementation of the session. The material used in the session is enclosed. Each teaching session should bring the rest of your Team up-to-level on a subject where you are expert. The topic of the session should be relevant to the business idea your Team is working on.

15. Island presentationday Aim: To have the students readcritically and understand another teams business plan • Name of the Business plan/Team • Name of the opponent team. • What are the Unique selling points of the product ? • What is the market potential – do they know their customers and competitors ? Is it realistic that they can reach those customers ? • Is their business model reasonable ? • Team/organization. Do they have the competencies it takes to implement the business plan • Budget/financing. Is there correlation between the business plan – work plan – budget ? • Work plan. Does the work plan seem realistic ? Are there a number of well defined milestones ? • Where do you see the three main barriers for this project becoming a success ?

16. Learningobjectives • Business planning • Collaboration • Technicalskills • Aim is to preparethemevenbetter for their future work in a company.

17. Thanks to all mycolleagues • 6 Island supervisors • Approx 20 Technical supervisors • Administrativ staff