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    Productivity in engineering education
    ( 2009)
    Eisenberg, M.
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    Heyer, S.
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    Reise, C.
    Innovation is progressing today faster than ever before by integration of knowledge from different domains. This makes agile management of the individual competence portfolio a core competency of engineers. The borders between economics, mechanical and electrical engineering as well as computer, natural and social sciences must be crossed without losing basic qualifications that form the foundation of being an archetype of engineer. One of the core functions of universities is to teach knowledge and provide training that allows development of the individual competence portfolio. Work as an engineer is focused on solving problems with regard to available resources. Solution finding is determined by analysis, modeling, experiment and design. Needed information must be identified, filtered, understood and applied in a timely manner. Therefore engineering education must enable engineers to acquire and process relevant information as complete as possible and on adequate level of detail on time. Productivity is well defined in economical or technical context as output per input. In the context of engineering education output relates to educational standards and educational quality, while input is determined by invested time, money and expertise. One of the main educational challenges today is to improve productivity in engineering education. In this paper approaches to define and measure productivity in engineering education are discussed. It is presented how TU Berlin faces the challenge of increasing productivity in engineering education in a pilot project. Methods to improve productivity are described and the experiences during implementation in the curriculum are shared.
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    Implementation of problem based learning in global engineering teams
    ( 2009)
    Eisenberg, M.
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    Oladiran, M.T.
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    Scheffer, C.
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    Uziak, J.
    An increasing percentage of modern industry is active on the global market. Their work is increasingly organized in projects consisting of globally distributed engineers. For this they must be able to rely on special competences often not learned from university courses. Professional intercultural collaboration requires competences that are rather acquired from training on the job than from ex-cathedra teaching. Filling this gap at the university level is a major challenge of modern engineering education. To face this challenge the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Berlin, Germany, the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Carlos, Brazil, are collaborating since 2004 in a special course named Global Engineering Teams (GET). Here students work for six month in teams evenly composed of future engineers from the involved university partners. The projects are actual problems from the reality of the involved industrial partners. There are no case studies or training exercises involved, so the project results are desirous expected by the industry. The concept of GET was constantly improved and is accompanied by constant action research. During the last six years GET included more global university partners every year. Today GET consists of five partner Universities: SOCIESC, Brazil, Stellenbosch University (SBU), South Africa, TUB, Germany, University of Botswana (UoB), Botswana, and USP, Brazil. In this paper the idea and working principle of GET is described. The benefits for the students engineering education are explained. An overview over the projects of the year 2008 will be given. The effects on competences of this form of project oriented engineering education will be discussed.
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    Engineering hybrider Leistungsbündel - Automatisierung in der Erbringung hybrider Leistungsbündel
    ( 2007)
    Eisenberg, M.
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    Binder, T.
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    Meyer, M.
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    Geisert, C.
    Im Rahmen des von der DFG geförderten Transregio 29 entwickeln die Ruhr-Universität Bochum und die Technische Universität Berlin gemeinsam innovative, nutzenorientierte Geschäftsmodelle für den deutschen Maschinen- und Anlagenbau. Diese bauen auf einem neuen Produktverständnis auf, in welchem Dienst- und Sachleistungsanteile der Produktion in integrierter und sich gegenseitig determinierender Form betrachtet werden und zu hybriden Leistungsbündeln (HLB) verknüpft sind. Im Vordergrund steht dabei der Gedanke der Problemlösung als HLB-Angebot. Zur Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle im Bereich der Investitionsgüterindustrie ist ein Paradigmenwechsel, weg von der getrennten Entwicklung von Sach- und Dienstleistung, hin zur integrierten Betrachtung als hybride Leistungsbündel notwendig. Voraussetzung für eine effiziente Erbringung solcher hybrider Leistungsbündel ist ein hohes Maß an Automatisierung unter Einbeziehung beider, der Sach- und der Dienstleistungsanteile. Die Entwicklung des Konzepts der Virtual Life Cycle Unit, welches eine HLB-Steuer- und -Regelungseinheit beinhaltet, ist Bestandteil der Forschungsarbeiten im von der DFG geförderten Sonderforschungsbereich 'Transregio 29 -Engineering hybrider Leistungsbündel'. Entnommen aus TEMA