{"id":1083,"date":"2015-06-10T00:43:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T00:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.productdevelopment.se\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2022-03-21T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:42:42","slug":"urban-mining-global-innovation-project-with-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.productdevelopment.se\/urban-mining-global-innovation-project-with-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Mining global innovation project with Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Seven final-year BTH students in Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management and Engineering have attended the ME310 EXPE – the Stanford Design Experience – which is the end-of-year celebration of the project results in the ME310 design program at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley. Attending the EXPE were Stanford and global partners’ students and faculty, as well as many industrial representatives from surrounding businesses – interested in both the project results and in interacting with the students.<\/p>\n Given the task to turn waste into value, the students in the Volvo CE project framed their work on focusing their needfinding on construction and demolition activities in urban areas. Needfinding was conducted in various demolition sites both in California and in Sweden.<\/p>\n