Samenvatting

With regard to the surplus value and the appreciation by the students and companies, in our view the following can be said.
Pro:
• Such a project enriches the student's learning process enormously. Collaborating in a multidisciplinary team calls for the ability to learn and appreciate each other's language and way of thinking. Subsequently (very) good results can be achieved in the border areas of each other's specialisms.
• Companies, such as ECN and Xerox were quite taken with such projects.
• Students must be better or become better in their own fields to be able to work in a multidisciplinary project.
Neutral:
• The teambuilding process can better take place within the Faculty.
Con:
• Students are tired of being levelled down due to group assessments; therefore recruitment of good students in particular is very difficult.
• The programming of the studies, especially the start of the final year project and the positioning in the curriculum, differs greatly within the Faculty of Technology and Science.
• The acquisition of external multidisciplinary assignments is hard; companies feel the supervision of a group of students with such a broad assignment to be problematic.