An Experience for Practice-based Education including Student Mobility

Abstract- The collaboration experiences and the results of the second “Pfalzmetall European Teamseminar ” will be presented in this paper. The duration of the project is one semester term and it consists of the cooperation between two national student teams (German and Spanish) and a German company in order to study an industrial problem. The students composed an international team and were in charge of different aspects of the given problem. The project finished with a presentation of the students ’ work and its results to the company engineers. The subject of the team seminar was the planning of a new production line for seats chassis. The partner company Keiper has provided all the necessary specifications of the product and the assembly line. The German group had to design the assembly line. The Spanish group did a 3D animation in order to show the workflow of the assembly line. Index Terms- Collaboration between universities and industry, engineering in automation and robotics, practice