Advances in Collaborative Engineering Education
This paper describes a project called ProVerStand (“Produktentwicklung uber Verteilte Standorte” or product development involving distributed locations) initiated by the Chair and Institute for Engineering Design (ikt), RWTH Aachen University and is participated by universities within the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in Germany. This paper will show the infrastructure of the cooperation within this project as well as information on license capacities and the current state of utilization. Further the influence and efforts of ProVerStand on curricula within NRW will be presented to give an example of effective and successful collaboration among universities at distributed locations. The paper also includes a perspective of future plans concerning expansion and upcoming projects.