Industry-University Collaboration: An Educational Program with Automotive Industry Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • © 2019 IEEE.In universities, it is well known that implement projects with Industry is beneficial for students as they develop different outcomes that will help them in their professional activities. If to this relationship between Industry-University, students from different universities of the world are added to collaborate in international engineering projects, the benefits will be greater: Students will learn ways of working from other countries, so that will help to create societies of engineers who will interact with harmony between countries and cultures. Links between students from different countries will be created to solve common engineering projects. This article is about the experiences of Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus State of Mexico, as a member of an academic program with Automotive Industry called PACE (Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education). In this program, international projects were developed, making teamwork with students from different universities of the world. Students worked in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams with different time zones and languages. Videoconferencing tools were used for long-distance communication. Each year a forum was organized, where teams met to deliver progress and their finished project. Projects were related to different areas of Automotive Engineering such as design, manufacturing and production of components.

publication date

  • December 1, 2019