POLE
What is POLE?
Project Oriented Learning Environment – POLE
is an international and interdisciplinary study platform that permits the development of innovation projects in cooperation with industry partners.
POLE´s Ideology
Knowledge producers and knowledge users need the dialogue to bring about better and sustainable solutions! There is something like collective intelligence. Transdisciplinarity trans-gresses boundaries and searches for more socially robust solutions. Learning is a social activity. We are looking for solutions that are
- boundary crossing - integrative - holistic - sustainable
POLE´s History
POLE exists for over 10 years now. It has been founded in 2001 by Prof. Dr. Christoph Holliger. On that time he was visiting professor at Standford University and strongly involved into the beginnings of „design thinking“. This approach is still one of the fundamentals of POLE. In the meantime, challenging and complex projects have been realized in cooperation with companies such as Nestlé, Volkswagen, Mammut Sports Group and others. In 2012 POLE has become part of the progam of studies in iCompetence.
2012 - ON TRACK (A-Welle) Move! (Actismile Inc.)
2011 - AIR ® (Elica) 7x24x52 Water & Ice
2010 - Highlight (Mammut Sports) 50m for Basel
2009 - DrivenDriver (Volkswagen) The Kitchen
2008 - Sun&Shade (Schenker) Human Centred Medicine
2007 - Xframe (Collano)
2006 - Planning for Davos SmartLight (Stryker)
2005 - CanPlus (Nestle)
2001 - 2004 ...
FormerProjects
POLE´s former projects
Stanford University, USA Helsinki University of Technology, FIOlin College Boston, USA NTNU Trondheim, NOTecnológico de Monterrey, MX UNITEC, Auckland, NZAalborg University, DK Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INBauhaus Weimar, DE ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, CHTU Delft, NL Tongji University, Shanghai, CNETSA Barcelona, ES University of Colorado, Boulder, USAMerz Akademie, Stuttgart, DE SCAD The University of Creative Careers
Partners
POLE partners
Industiral and Product Design
System Engineering
Plastics Technology and Material Sciences
N.N
Mechanical Engineering
BusinessEngineering
Computer Sciences
N.N.Mechatronics
Electircal Engineering
Process Management
Team Composition and Interaction
Project Organisation
- disciplinarily mixed teams of approx. 6 students - individual coaches from each faculty - use case given by industry partner - project organisation by POLE lead
Sept. 11
Virtual Kick-off
Topic Introduction
Team BuildingTrust Building First insights
Comapny visitCompany inputCoaches input
PresentationRequirements &
Stakeholders
PresentationQuality of conceptsDecisiton Analysis
Planning
Design Presentation and Documentation
Interdisciplinary cooperation
Sept. 21 - 26
Kick-off weekOct. 23 (by VC)
1st ReviewNov. 27 (by VC)
2nd ReviewJan. 9.2013
Final Presentation
Have an insight into POLE „OnTrack“, 2012
Caroline Schnell:
„I liked working on the POLE project - it was an inspiring and challenging experience to breed innovation in an international team.“
Sibylle Ramseier:
„It was a great oppor-tunity to learn aspects outside my core compe-tence within a collabora-tive and heterogeneous team.“
Huan Than:
„I felt responsible for aspects outside my core competences and the role I assumed to have in the team in the beginning...“
Sept. 3
Virtual Kick-off
Topic Introduction
Team BuildingTrust Building First insights
Comapny visitCompany inputCoaches input
PresentationRequirements &
Stakeholders
PresentationQuality of conceptsDecisiton Analysis
Planning
Design Presentati-on and Documen-
tationInterdisciplinary
cooperation
Sept. 20 - 25
Kick-off week 1st Review 2nd ReviewJan. 2014
Final Presentation
Project Time Line – Upcoming 2013
How to participate? Application is open now!
- Letter of Motivation and CV
- Application until 31.5.13 [email protected]
- Notification of acceptance before 10.6.13
POLE will be able to host 12–18 students from the school of engineering, FHNW.
Thank you for your attention
http://www.pole-project.ch/