Community Service Engineering is a curriculum of the faculties of Engineering Technology and Engineering Science KU Leuven in collaboration with Thomas More

Week 30: Cultural Aspects24 Apr – 30 Apr – Face-to-face in Leuven

TOPIC: Cultural Aspects

Face-to-face meetingThis week we welcome you in Leuven

Friday 24/04Address: KU Leuven - DOEL | Kapeldreef 62 | 3001 Heverlee| Zaal Lyra

No class on Saturday

09:00 - 09:30Introducing the topic –Why are cultural aspects relevant for a CSE Engineer? - Inge Vervoort (Thomas More)

9:30 - 10:30 Preparing the ‘Debate on CSE across cultures’

10:30 -11:30 Meeting the European partners in CSE for a ‘Debate across cultures on selected ‘news items’’

11:30 -12:00 Pitching the status of your projects progress and expressing your needs – How can we help you? (all students)

12:00 – 13:00 BREAK BREAK

13:00 – 14:00Pitching the status of your projects progress and expressing your needs – How can we help you? (all students)

14:00 – 15:00

15:00 – 16:00

16:00 – 17:00

Mission Social Innovation Factory, Wicked Problems & Examples and practising your own ‘pitching skills’. Bernard Fornoville (Sociale Innovatiefabriek)

Individual assignment(s) Week 30

• Task 4.4: You've almost reached your project’s end result. You looked at business models. Now, do you think other businesses could use what you have developed? Contact them and explore interest. At the start of your project: Did you look at existing technology? Could existing technology (maybe used for other purposes) have been an added value for your project's end result? Is an international dimension important for your projects result in order to have chances for long term sustainability?

• Write down your findings and thoughts in a report (600 words) and post it on your Weebly website - tab Evaluation – Task 4.4

Group interaction Week 30

• Assignment 1: Looking back at what you experienced: What did you learn from interacting with the end users in the first place and from the stakeholders in general?

• Collaborative writing: Write down your group reflections in a Google Docs document. (Collaborative writing means that one student starts the document and the other students adapt and contribute to the same document.)

Group interaction Week 30

• Assignment 2: Prepare the presentation for your viva (end presentation in front of a professional jury), present it in group and give each other feedback. For compiling the viva (final presentation) we hope you will inspire yourself upon the Weebly website that you have gradually built. – Good Luck!

• Presentation for the jury is on Friday May 22nd – See separate invitation.

Group interaction Week 30

• Assignment 2: Prepare the presentation for your viva (end presentation in front of a professional jury), present it in group and give each other feedback. For compiling the viva (final presentation) we hope you will inspire yourself upon the Weebly website that you have gradually built. – Good Luck!

• Presentation for the jury is on Friday May 22nd – See separate invitation.