Open AccessTransferring an Interdisciplinary Student Product Development Project to Full Online Conduction
Author(s) -
Patrick Herstätter,
Andreas Franz Kohlweiss,
Maria Hulla,
Christian Ramsauer
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tehnički glasnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1848-5588
pISSN - 1846-6168
DOI - 10.31803/tg-20210729105617
Subject(s) - work (physics) , product (mathematics) , new product development , project based learning , project management , course (navigation) , covid-19 , engineering management , mathematics education , computer science , engineering , psychology , business , systems engineering , marketing , medicine , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , aerospace engineering
"Product Innovation" is a 7-month product development course, conducted at the Institute of Innovation and Industrial Management with international and interdisciplinary student teams. A close connection and interaction between industry, students and research has been an important part of this project-based learning course. Due to the COVID19 pandemic and the worldwide occurring lockdowns, students were not able anymore to interact and conduct their projects in the proven manner. Being in a critical phase of the project, the course concept had to be reorganized and transferred to online conduction by using computer supported collaboration work within a few days. Both observations and surveys were used to compare changes in student´s behaviour and results of the project. This paper will describe 1) the original situation and course concept, 2) show how the course was transformed to online conduction, 3) describe the observations made and 4) analyse how the students experienced the transformation.