Distributed IPD Project - based Learning - a PhD Summer School Student's Perspective

A group of 5 international PhD students attended a 2 week Integrated Product Development (IPD) summer school (ipdISS15). The aim of ipdISS15 is to provide a platform through which postgraduates working in IPD related fields can sharpen their understanding of current and emerging research issues in this interdisciplinary field. Objectives of this project were to motivate the students to organize, specify roles, adapt views on the engineering tasks and to prepare for distributed collaboration. Perspectives and findings during IPD, related to project-based learning, are shown as conclusion.