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Hogeschool Brabant
CIRRUSproject duurzame technologie van de Faculteit Techniek en Natuur
Duurzame Chemie
Multidisciplinary projects as learning tool for sustainable approaches
Experience and some critical assessment
L.M.F. Dejong
2Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Multidisciplinary projects
Students in any (technical) discipline have to learn:
• To understand each other’s language
• To start thinking in systems
• To dedicate their specialism to a system approach
3Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Sustainable development
The “CIRRUS” approach:an integrated focus on sustainability in all the study programmes, by integratingKnowledge InsightCompetences In different subjects, courses and projects.
Main aspects, creating an awareness of sustainabilityA vision on sustainabilityLearning a systems approach
4Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Multidisciplinary projects
Objectives multidisciplinay projects program:• To gain experience• To develop an integrated course• To develop a protocol for MD-projects
Important problem definition• Students from various disciplines truly
cooperate ?• MD-collaboration sustainable solutions?
5Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Practical approach
Directly at the start of CIRRUS project, the “ENO” MD-project was carried out
The results of that “ENO” MD-project formed input for a protocol
The protocol was used in three further projects.
6Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Protocol
Intake phaseAssessment project subjectAllocation people & resources +
acceptance
Execution phaseOrientation / problem definitionAnalysis / designImplementationEvaluation / finalising
7Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
“Eno” project
To assess the need of information on sustainable energy options
Major experiences MD-projectDurationLevel participants equalAmount of time availableCohesion of the group (Belbin / Tuckman)
Interactivity project <=> project groupRelation external party
Projects / learning experience
8Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Projects / learning experience
“De Pettena” projectTo improve the energy economy of a
home for the elderlyProject result: very successfulMajor experiences MD-project:
Protocol worked well.Coaching of teambuilding, in particular
cooperation of students, is too hard for supervisors in the field.
11Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Projects / learning experience
“De Pettena” projectTo improve the energy economy of a
home for the elderlyProject result: very successfulMajor experiences MD-project:
Protocol worked well.Coaching of teambuilding, in particular
cooperation of students, is too hard for supervisors in the field.
12Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Projects / learning experience
“Xerox” project
Design a process to reuse parts of a new generation copiers
Partly successful
Major experiences MD-projectThe willingness and ability to collaborate.The level of the studentsLarge projects, hard to demarcate in time
13Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Observations, conclusions and recommendations (1)
• StudentRecruitment of students is hard“Equivalence” requires special attentionGroupforming process needs attention
• OrganisationBringing in line of department programmes
remains a problem
14Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
Observations, conclusions and recommendations (2)
External partiesToo high hopes Impact of supervision MD projects too much Inexpierence of external supervisors with tackling
problems in teamwork
ProtocolTuning with regard to the planning of the study
programmesTeambuilding in house
ProposalsMD-projects planned in earlier stage of the studies
15Project CIRRUS Expertise Center
Sustainable Business Operations
SummaryPro
MD-projects enriches the student’s learning process
Companies were quite taken with such projectsStudents must become better in their own field
NeutralTeambuilding within the Faculty
ContraStudents are tired of being leveled downThe programming of the different studies differs
too muchAcquisition of external MD assignments is hard.