The Global Engineering Design Team (Gedt) Transatlantic Team Based Design For Undergraduates

Industries are becoming more global in nature, especially in their supply chains. Undergraduate engineering students rarely address this trend nor do they ever get to participate in international or non-collocated teaming. Furthermore, international companies have a desire to explore closer global relationships with their current or prospective supply chain companies. For these reasons, Arizona State University and the University of Leeds have begun a joint academic year course entitled the Global Engineering Design Team (GEDT). The goal was to create a single team of students on a company-sponsored design project that required continual global teamwork, thinking and communication and would prepare the students for Design in a Global Environment.