About the MUPIC Course
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| Date: | Monday, 7 April 2025, 2:35 PM |
1. About the MUPIC Course
A multimodal online course was developed to support students' work in international multidisciplinary project teams. The online course is a part of the MUPIC educational model, where students work in international multidisciplinary teams on a real-life assignment from a company. The MUPIC educational model is a blended learning/ teaching activity that takes eight months. The activity starts with a face-to-face Kick-Off week (5 days) when students from different world universities meet for the first time and form international and multidisciplinary teams. After that, the students work online on a real-life assignment. The students' progress is checked at several checkpoints before the final submission. The Final presentations finish the course, and evaluation week is realized face-to-face.
The course consists of six modules:
Module 1 Intercultural and Virtual Communication
Module 2 Language
Module 3 Project Management
Module 4 Engineering Design
Module 5 Strategy and Business
Module 6 Industrial Design
2. Wecome and general information
To get an insight into what is expected, you can listen to the information presented to students at the beginning of the course Kick-Off week. This presentation will help you understand what to expect; however, the precise instructions will come from your teachers/tutors.
3. Rules of the Game - Course Assessment
This course is focused on problem-based, self-directed learning in teams and innovative work. In addition, it aims to improve your intercultural, communication and language skills. You can imagine that the assessment of your project work will be pretty complex. What are the rules of the game?
Watch the presentation explaining the game rules below, but remember the precise rules will come from your teachers/tutors.
4. Who is Who
It is important to understand the roles of all participants of the MUPIC educational model.
Four important roles are defined:
- Team
- Coach
- Experts
- Company contacts/experts
Ad1) A team consists of students from several universities/HE institutions (it is important that each university is from a different country). Ideally, each team should have from 5 to 6 students.
Ad 2) A coach is a lecturer/professor whose role is to meet with a team on regular basis and monitor their work progress. The coach helps the team manager to solve any problems by giving advice. When any problem occurs the coach is the first person to be contacted. Apart from monitoring the team, the coach is responsible for providing a feedback summary to the team after each checkpoint and the final evaluation. The coach does not evaluate the team reports.
Ad 3) An expert is a professor who is available to discuss field-specific questions. The expert is not the coach.
Ad 4) A company contact/expert is a person whose task is to be available to the students and answer questions connected with the real-life assignment.
Below you can see the examples of the teams organisation:
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Team 1 Accutherm |
Team 2 Accutherm |
Team 3 Vesuvius |
Team 4 Vesuvius |
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Team Manager |
TUAS 1 |
TUAS 2 |
TUAS 3 |
TUAS 4 |
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Mechanical Engineer I |
MONS 1 |
MONS 2 |
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UWB 2 |
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Mechanical Engineer 2 |
MONS 3 |
MONS 4 |
MONS 5 |
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Business Marketing |
FLORIDA 1 |
FLORIDA 2 |
FLORIDA 3 |
FLORIDA 4 |
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Business Marketing |
FLORIDA 5 |
MONS 5 |
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Industrial Design |
UWB 3 |
UWB 4 |
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Coached by |
UWB |
UMONS |
TUAS |
FLLORIDA |
4.1. Experts
Intercultural, Language and Virtual Communication |
| Mervi Varhelahti (TUAS) |
5. Course Description and a Time Frame
Course description
The multimodal course is focused on the support of international students´ cooperation using innovative methods in a multidisciplinary project management team.
Approach: Virtual or Blended learning, project-based learning in virtual teams.
Timeframe of the course:
- Week 1: Start of the online course (pre-tasks)
- Week 3: Virtual/F2F kick-off meeting, 5 days
- Weeks 9,15,29: Three official CheckPoints (CPs) online
- Week 36: Final meeting, 5 days
6. Checkpoints and Deadlines
In this section, you will find a list of checkpoints and deadlines. It is also the place where you will submit your reports and the final work. Please remember that your teachers will inform you about the exact reporting dates.
Check Point 1: week 9
Feedback returned to students week 11
Check Point 2: week 15
Feedback returned to students week 20
Check Point 3: week 29
Feedback returned to students week 31
Final work submission: 34 week
Final Presentation: week 36
6.1. Checkpoint Team Submissions
By each checkpoint, each team should submit only one report (document).
There is no specific format for the report but some basic requirements. Each team report document (only one per team) should have:
- a front page,
- a table of contents,
- respective chapters (sections) divided according to the field-specific requirements described in the Requested Outputs document.
After receiving the feedback and before submitting your report document for the next checkpoint, please, pay attention to the following:
- for the next checkpoint, update the current document and add all materials to be submitted, i.e. submit one updated report (cumulative report).
- In the report document, highlight all changes based on the feedback from the previous checkpoint.
- In the report document, highlight all new parts of the report documents.
7. Reflection Diary
Reflection Diary is an individual activity. In the diary, you are encouraged to reflect
a) Teamwork and your own learning
b) Topic-specific issues under Modules 1 & 2
by each checkpoint and at the end of the course.
Writing reflections on the project work are encouraged to enhance project-based learning experiences.
Detailed instructions for the diary reflections.
8. Glossary
In this section, you will find a glossary of terms across different disciplines. The main aim of the collection is to unify the terminology you will be using in your reports.
Presently, there are seven general domains for a total of 2257 words: engineering and industrial design (123), project management (670), the strength of materials (127), general mechanics (133), CAD (65), machine elements (231) and mechanical transmissions (63), and four specific domains, which were added according to the topics proposed by the companies: railway (108), metallurgy (309), thermodynamics (318) and robotics (110).
All words are available in English, French, Spanish, Finish and Czech.