Educational project
SUPSI - Penn State University Collaboration
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The project involves around ten second-year students from the CdL of Computer Science Engineering, who are working on multidisciplinary projects together with fellow students from
Penn State University (PSU), Pennsylvania.
Penn State University (PSU), Pennsylvania.
Working groups are mixed and distributed, consisting of 4, maximum 5 students, of which at least 2 SUPSI and 2 PSU.
The collaboration is divided into 3 phases:
In this module, entirely in English, students are given a unique opportunity to develop global communication and collaborative skills, practise their language skills and apply methodologies to work in an intercultural and distributional environment.
The collaboration is divided into 3 phases:
- During the first phase, the students meet for a week at PSU and begin their collaboration, with the choice of projects, the formation of mixed groups based on project interests and an initial planning of the work. This takes place one week before the start of the SUPSI spring semester.
- Afterwards, the groups work on projects in a distributed manner, with weekly online coordination meetings, supervised by lecturers, both at SUPSI and at PSU.
- After 10 weeks of work, the final meeting takes place with the arrival of the PSU students in Switzerland. In this final phase, projects are finalised and final presentations prepared.
In this module, entirely in English, students are given a unique opportunity to develop global communication and collaborative skills, practise their language skills and apply methodologies to work in an intercultural and distributional environment.