International Mechatronics Educational Project IMEP 2015

Abstract

The annual International Mechatronics Educational Project (IMEP) was set up as a cooperation between three European universities from The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium in 2013 and was held for the 3rd time in Spring 2015. IMEP 2015 started with a kick-off meeting in February and ended 17 weeks later with an assessment including a demonstration of the students' work. During the fifth and tenth week the international students met each other for project weeks with additional workshops. The purpose of this project was to let students from different nationalities with various cultural backgrounds learn to work together on a mechatronical assignment and communicate in English. The students were making use of the internet and modern communication means while working on different locations.