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A Fictitious Vehicle Manufacturing Company at a University as Interdisciplinary Framework to Combine Study Programs

  • Interdisciplinary thinking is becoming an increasingly important competence for meeting the challenges of our time, for example in the areas of sustainability or even digitalization. Successful value creation can only be achieved if all subject disciplines work together. Universities, too, must adapt to these needs and anchor the teaching of these competencies in their courses of study. In this context, interdisciplinary cooperation cannot be limited to the curricula, but must also bring together the teachers and the learners in a common context. Traditionally, universities have found it difficult to develop interdisciplinary scenarios. The teaching scenarios themselves must already provide interdisciplinary content and learning objectives. The challenge here is multi-level. First, it is a great challenge to connect the modules of a course of study in a thematically meaningful way. Second, it is the linking with other study programs that brings about the most sustainable interdisciplinary effects. One possible solution, which has been tested for several years, is to set up a fictitious company as a digital learning factory, which serves as a basis and reference for the interlinking of individual modules of the various courses of study. The scenarios that can be depicted here are extremely application-oriented, which means that not only can internal university modules be very easily aligned with them, but external partners, can also get a simple participation. Furthermore, the participating courses of study can continue to maintain their original core competencies while participating in the interdisciplinary scenarios via the modules that are aligned accordingly with the learning factory. A company from the vehicle construction sector was selected as the business model in order to be able to map another focus at the same time, autonomous driving. The individual departments of the company are linked professionally with the contents of the individual courses of study. Study programs, such as industrial engineering, form the design department, whereas technology-oriented study programs, such as business computing, represent technical development, in particular the area of driver assistance system development. In addition, the relevant departments also include economics and so on. The special feature, however, is the fact that real products in the form of vehicles on a scale of 1:14 are also created and continuously developed, which is an important success factor of the learning factory. The following article transfers the experiences made into a scheme of different levels of interdisciplinary forms of teaching within the framework of the learning factory and classifies and explains the existing scenarios accordingly. Furthermore, the teaching formats used, which have proven to be effective in imparting competences, are described.

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URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-20213
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.36315/2023v2end097
Author:Tobias Peuschke-Bischof, Stefan KubicaORCiD
Parent Title (English):Education and New Developments 2023 : Volume II
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of Publication:2023
First Page:429
Last Page:433
Publisher:inScience Press
Place of publication:Lisbon
Faculties an central facilities:Fachbereich Wirtschaft, Informatik, Recht
Editor:Mafalda Carmo
Publishing Institution:Technische Hochschule Wildau
Tag:educational environment; higher education; new learning and teaching models; science and technology education; technology in teaching and learning
Source:Peuschke-Bischof, T., & Kubica, S. (2023). A Fictitious Vehicle Manufacturing Company at a University as Interdisciplinary Framework to Combine Study Programs. In M. Carmo, Education and New Developments 2023 (pp. 429–433). Lisbon: inScience Press. doi:10.36315/2023v2end097
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 378 Hochschulbildung
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
Licence (German):Das Dokument ist urheberrechtlich geschützt.
Release Date:2025/03/04
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