Why BerlIn - Global Production Engineering - TU Berlin

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International
attitude
The special international make-up of the
GPE student body (composed of students
from 20 different countries and 5 continents)
that attends GPE every year is the
hallmark of the program. This kind of special
mix of students is rarely found in comparable
programs. In courses designed to orient
them toward working in the global village,
students learn from each other on a daily
basis how to develop ideas, come up with
common solutions, and implement them. In
this way, their educational training prepares
them for intercultural teamwork with a
changing mix of team members to deal with
tasks under the tutelage of experienced
instructors.
Several lectures with an international perspective
are available, such as Global Supply
Chain Management, Global Production
Management, International Procurement
and Technology Transfer. In addition, courses
are offered in which GPE students carry out
industrial and research projects with students
from Korea, the USA, Brazil, and South
Africa Students take up the latest research
developments and open up new application
areas for technologies or deductively analyze
problems from industry on their way to
developing solutions.
The TU Berlin infrastructure surrounding the
GPE is sharply defined by the Production
Technology Center (PTC), which consists of
departments from the TU Berlin and the
Fraunhofer Society. The PTC collaborates
intensively with partners in research and
in education from around the world. Its
network of partners consists of roughly
200 businesses, research facilities, and universities
worldwide. These partners jointly
seek out engineering projects and scientific
business questions from the production
technical environment.
The international flavor of the student body
and assistant professors plays a key role in
the educational process. Every year, visiting
professors give lectures for GPE; in recent
years these have included professors from
the University of Michigan, USA; the University
of New South Wales, Australia; the
Korean Institute of Science and Technology,
Korea; the University of Cincinnati, USA; the
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA; the
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, China;
Tongji University Shanghai, China; and Waseda
University Tokyo, Japan.
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