Over the last few years NNE’s Process Automation department has increased its engagement into the education of engineering students of innovation and business on a cross-disciplinary basis.
At the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) the education is run under the title Innovation Pilot and the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) runs a course called Experts in Teams, which is mandatory for all students in the 5th term of their engineering studies. We have supplied concrete cases for both universities.
At SDU, this fall’s version of Experts in Teams has recently been concluded. NNE’s case was centered around challenges in handling components for single-use based production: automated sterile transportation and assembly and online tracking of components through the plant.
The course started out this September with a speed-dating presentation of the company cases followed by a fair with booths for in-depth presentation. At this event, also Danish professor Eske Willerslev was invited to give an inspirational pep-talk to the students. He encouraged everyone to seek inspiration in the unknown, stay curious and to take advantage of the cross-disciplinary interaction presented by the course as well as by engineering work in general.
12 weeks later, the students presented their posters with conceptual solutions for our case – as interpreted and elaborated by themselves during the course. Once again, we were very impressed to see how far the students can get in such short time. The results are quite promising for the next generation of engineering experts, and we at NNE are really proud of having contributed just a little bit to their development.
