Urban Mining project with Volvo CE, Stanford University and BTH

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Urban Mining project with Volvo CE, Stanford University and BTH

The basic idea is that in any city today, constructing a new building usually involves deconstructing an old one. Instead of carting all the debris to a land fill, one should reprocess and reuse as much as possible onsite. This concept of Urban Mining shall be explored by a joint team of BTH & Stanford University students in engineering.

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BTH and Stanford students are during autumn 2014 – spring 2015 working together on a project to develop a concept for Urban Mining. The project is part of the course “ME310 Global” (Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering) which aims to build students capabilities in design thinking by matching students with real life problems, and hence in collaboration with corporate partners.

Kick-off happened late October at Stanford University where BTH students and faculty took part and also all other global teams.

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After an exploratory phase that include benchmarking, needfinding and rapid prototyping, the students meet for the 2md time in Sweden.

Course setup according to below sketch. More info at me310.stanford.edu.

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“I’ve been collaborating with Stanford and the Design Division and d.school for several years and now we aim at deepening the collaboration between BTH Mechanical Engineering and Stanford Mechanical Engineering to be able to offer continuous project collaboration in global innovation projects together with industry“, says Professor Tobias Larsson of Mechanical Engineering / Product Development Research Lab. He continues; “We are now scouting for projects with industry connection for upcoming autumn, and also interested students to participate. The projects are tough and demanding, but extremely rewarding.”

Partners in the 2014/15 project are:

  • Volvo Construction Equipment
  • Blekinge Institute of Technology
  • Stanford University
  • Explorers Club (Culture Coaching)

For more information, contact Professor Tobias C. Larsson, tobias.larsson@bth.se, Product Development Research Lab.

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