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Stanford University VW AutoUniME 310
Collaboration

• Philipp L. Skogstad for Larry Leifer, Ph.D.

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Goal

• To start a clone of ME 310 in Wolfsburg with the
  intention that VW AutoUni will be able to teach
  this course independently of Stanford University
  in the future.

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Agenda

• Expected Students in Wolfsburg
• Expected Faculty in Wolfsburg
• Collaboration with Stanford University
  University of St. Gallen
• Timeline for Year 1 Academic Year 2005-2006
• My role

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Expected Students

• In Wolfsburg 6 8 Students at the Masters
  Level with backgrounds a variety of backgrounds.
• Students form 2 teams working on different
  projects to facilitate learning in parallel

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Expected Faculty in Wolfsburg

• Instructors who have visited Stanford University
  and experienced ME 310 and its coaching workshop.
  (Potentially Klaus, Bill Cockayne, ???)
• Preferred Scenario One Instructor one
  near-peer (Georg?) as TTeam, One Technical
  Consultant (Experienced Engineer), One Business
  Consultant (Experienced Manager), Coaches
  (Stanford Visitors)

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Collaboration with Stanford University
University of St. Gallen

• Teams Collaborate with Student Teams at Stanford
  University ( maybe HSG, Switzerland)
• Calendar Stanford University Calendar drives
  everything.
• Infrastructure Use of ME 310s Docushare, Wiki
  etc.
• Assignments Same for all Teams
• Travel Teams visit each other

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Timeline for Year 1 Academic Year 2005-2006

• Course Planning over Summer early Fall 2005
• Start Course in October (or September if Paper
  Bike included)
• Finish with EXPE on June 1
• Team Travel December April

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My Role

• Visit Wolfsburg this summer to help instructors
  determine expectations
• Write Project Proposals with VW
• Help Start-up Course potentially
• Write Assignments
• Help Grading first set of reports
• Research on Design Habits by Observation at all
  sites of the project