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“Dancing with ambiguity” in global Stanford/BTH/Volvo innovation project

Late October, a team of BTH Mechanical Engineering students, and future game-changers, travelled to Palo Alto, and the world #1 engineering university; Stanford University. It was time for the kick-off for the 2015/16 ME310 Global New Product Design Innovation. ME310 is a course where a global network of designers, engineers and innovators are challenging complex real world […]

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Urban Mining global innovation project with Stanford

Turning waste into value has been the topic of a global product development challenge for 11 students for the past year within the Stanford ME310 Global Design Innovation course. The innovation challenge was performed in collaboration with industrial partner Volvo Construction Equipment. The project culminated with a presentation at the prestigious Stanford EXPE. Seven final-year BTH students in […]

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Urban Mining project with Stanford & Volvo CE

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 […]

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IDÉUM – Beyond brainstorming!

IDÉUM was created during Stanford ME310 & BTH PSS Extreme Innovation courses with a joint team of mechanical engineering students with corporate sponsors. The prompt; How might we build confidence and make a user feel like an innovative genius, with a tool that actually helps develop creative skills? The context? In the eyes of our […]

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