Successfull finale of the IDEEA event

IDEEA – International Design and Engineering Education Association – is an international organization of universities and companies whose goal is to advance education and research with regard to the challenges of future technologies in the areas of mobility, product development and industry 4.0. At the IDEEA Annual Forum in Monterrey, Mexico, which was held for the first time, about 150 representatives from industry and science as well as students took the opportunity of a scientific dialogue. A special highlight were the presentations of the prototypes as a result of the international “Design Thinking” study project, which was carried out in international cooperation with 15 universities from North and South America, Europe and Asia. In spatially distributed teams, the students on the four continents with many different time zones used methods of distributed work to go through the phases “Research – Definition – Ideation – Making – Testing”. As a result of the international cooperation, each project team presented its variant of a modular drone developed for a specific category to an international jury from industry and science. Teams 13 and 14, each with two master students from TU Darmstadt, developed a drone for use in agriculture and life saving, and delivered a convincing performance.