Are we ready for Reshuflable Machine Tools

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EPRODE Test Course for people from industry
Prof. Maciej Szafarczyk, Warsaw University of
Technology, Poland CIRP Human Factors and
Education Krakow, 26 August 2004
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• Partners of EPRODE are Universities in Sweden,
  Germany and Poland along with industrial
  institutes and organizations in Spain and Sweden.
  
• Through this programme, students will develop
  competencies that will guarantee initiative,
  adaptability and mobility as well as ability to
  learn, communicate and collaborate.
• For the test courses given within the project,
  co-operation with companies for student selection
  will be an important task. The actual delivery of
  test courses is important short time goal.

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• MAIN CHARACTERISTIC
• The course should check requirements for
  Production Engineers and teaching methods
  developed in the project EPRODE.
• The students know already English language. The
  course should improve their knowledge, especially
  in the field of production engineering.
• In the course there will be 10-12 students
  working in Pratt Whitney Kalisz. They have
  already BSc in engineering or have already basic
  knowledge and are working on the production
  engineering position.

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• The main task of the course is to acquire by the
  students self learning attitude to the
  professional activity. There will be only limited
  time of lectures.
• The students should learn by themselves from
  printed material or through internet. The
  knowledge should be tested at the seminars.
• Apart from the personal contacts teachers and
  students will use e-mail links.

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• During the course there will be four subjects
  from the third year of the BSc course equivalent
  to 20 ECTS
• 1) Modern cutting and grinding 6 ECTS,
• 2) CAD/CAM 4 ECTS,
• 3) Automatic control in manufacturing
• 6 ECTS,
• 4) Economy in industrial practice 4 ECTS.
• The average time needed from the student for 1
  ECTS is equivalent to 20 hours of work.

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• TIMETABLE
• The course will be organized in 2005 with the
  preliminary actions in the fourth quarter of
  2004.
• There will be three didactic meetings and two
  organization meetings.
• The didactic meeting will take five days in two
  parts Thursday-Friday in the first week and
  Thursday-Friday-Saturday in the second one.
• Organization meetings will last several hours.

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• Organization meeting, September-October, 2004.
  Discussion with the students about the course.
  Modifications of the course, if needed.
• First didactic meeting, January-February, 2005.
  Short lectures. Seminars testing abilities and
  attitudes of the students. Distributing
  individual tasks.
• Second didactic meeting, April-May, 2005.
  Seminars with individual presentations of the
  students. Distribution of projects and laboratory
  tests, which should be made by students.

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• Third didactic meeting, June-July, 2005. Seminars
  with presentation of results of projects or
  tests.
• Organization meeting, September-October, 2005.
  Distributing the diplomas. Discussion about the
  course and general evaluation of this kind of
  education.

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