E-learning Platform for Innovative Product Development

Two conference papers related to ELPID project outputs have been accepted at the ICED21 conference, to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from the 16th to the 20th of August 2021. The conference paper “Use of Information and Communication Technology Tools in Distributed Product Design Student Teams“, co-authored by Nikola Horvat, Niccolò Becattini‬ and Stanko Škec, is focused on the usage of various ICT tools in distributed project-based learning environment (related to design course). The […]

We would like to thank, Bernhard Eberl and PTC Education, for supporting our e-learning practices! #Onshape is a fully online #CAD solution that provides students and educators access from any device and the ability to collaborate on the same document at the same time.

There is no doubt that the Covid-19 crisis has major impacts on higher education. Fast paced changes with respect to the health situation of countries and regions requires institutions to constantly adjust their teaching strategies. As a consequence, educators are confronted with the problem that the way they can safely offer courses often changes within days or weeks. In many cases the necessity of fast […]

We previously introduced you to this-year edition of our E-learning Platform for Innovative Product Development (ELPID) project. The core of ELPID is a semester-long project-based engineering course in which teams composed of international students develop solutions for industrial partners with the support of the proposed e-learning platform. This year, the project task is to develop seats and seating arrangements for the new generation subway car […]

The conference paper “Identifying Indicators for the Use of Virtual Prototypes in Distributed Design Activities“, co-authored by Nikola Horvat, Niccolò Becattini, Tomislav Martinec‬ and Stanko Škec, has been accepted at the CAD21 conference, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, from the 5th to the 7th of July 2021. This paper presents an approach to identify and validate indicators for the use of virtual prototypes (VPs) during distributed design activities. This study reflected on the usage […]

ELPID21 course in collaboration with Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH officially started! The new edition of the ELPID course officially started with the kick-off workshop in a virtual environment. During the first day, students were welcomed to the course by lecturers and team coaches from four participating institutions UL, UNIZAG-FSB, POLIMI and TUW.  This year’s ELPID hosts (TU Wien) took us on a virtual sightseeing tour […]

The conference paper “E-LEARNING INFRASTRUCTURE PROTOTYPE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED PROJECT-BASED LEARNING” co-authored by N. Becattini, S. Škec, N. Pavković and G. Cascini was presented on DESIGN2020 conference. The paper presents the original integration of ICT tools and e-learning platform into an infrastructure to support Project-based learning for a design class that is geographically distributed across different countries. 30 Mechanical Engineering students from 4 European countries […]

As representatives of the ELPID consortium, Stanko Škec and Niccolo Becattini participated in The Design Society Chat Room related to “Successful transition to online teaching”! They presented the preliminary outputs of the ELPID project and collaboration with companies Electrolux and Rold! For more details, please check the link below.

On Wednesday, June 10th, 2020, POLIMI representatives (Prof. Cascini and Dr. Becattini) organised the final workshop for the this-year edition of ELPID course. The final workshop was completely and seamlessly conducted in an online form (by using MS Teams platform) and gathered more than 70 participants from academia and industry. During the workshop, international teams that participated in this course revealed and presented their solutions […]

Nikola Horvat, PhD student from the University of Zagreb, tried out various existing eye-tracking tools in order to explore their functionalities to analyse benefits of the proposed e-learning platform. As such, GazeRecorder emerged as one of the very useful applications that can be used for that purpose. GazeRecorder is available as desktop or Web App version and uses a webcam to produce a heat map […]

With the initial ELPID workshop, this-year edition of ELPID course officially started. Students are familiarised with the design task given by Rold and Electrolux, and provided with necessary instructions to start working and collaborating in the virtual environment! Electrolux Open Innovation (https://open.electrolux.com/), Electrolux Global R&D Fabric Care and Dish Care and R-Lab (https://www.rold.com/research-innovation/r-lab/) propose two themes you will be asked to tackle during the project. […]

On the final day of the initial ELPID workshop (21.2.2020.) organised by POLIMI, students and educators visited several very nice laboratories in Campus Bovisa La Masa of Politecnico di Milano. Students and educators had a nice opportunity to listen to excellent presentations first-hand from researchers that actively conduct their studies in these labs. Students and educators visited many interesting labs such as: SPARK, I.DRIVE, Lego Factory and […]

Based on the experience from the first project year, we decided to slightly change the sequence of the activities in the second project year. We organised the ELPID workshop at the beginning of the course  when all students from four different universities (POLIMI, TU Wien, University of Ljubljana, University of Zagreb) physically met from 17th to 21st of February in beautiful POLIMI campus in Lecco, […]

A paper titled “E-learning infrastructure prototype for geographically distributed project-based learning“, co-authored with Niccolo Becattini, Stanko Škec, Neven Pavković and Gaetano Cascini has been accepted at the DESIGN2020 conference, to be held in Dubrovnik from the 18th to the 21th of May 2020. Based on the insights obtained from the previous year, this paper presents the original integration of ICT tools and e-learning platform into an infrastructure to support […]

We inform all interested students from four participating universities ((POLIMI, TU Wien, University of Ljubljana, University of Zagreb) that they may apply for the second edition of ELPID course. This year, students will work on a very exciting task provided by companies Rold and Electrolux (Italy). Please submit your applications latest by 24.01.2020. to respective lecturers (prof. Cascini – POLIMI, prof. Grafinger – TU Wien, dr. […]

POLIMI reported about the ELPID project and the 1st-year course! More details can be found on the link.

At the end of the 1st year ELPID final workshop, students from four partner HEIs presented their development projects at the facilities of industrial partner BSH (Nazarje, Slovenia). Throughout the summer semester, students collaborated and worked through newly established e-learning environment (output of ELPID project) on this year design project – a smart waste bin for domestic use. Please find pictures of presentations and related discussions afterwards. […]

Zvonko Martinović presented preliminary outputs of the ELPID project on the MoodleMoot  2019 conference held on Friday, June 7th 2019 at the University Computing Centre – SRCE. The MoodleMoot Croatia is organized with aim of gathering moodlers and all interested in Moodle to exchange experiences and to socialize and connect into an interactive collaboration network. For more details, please refer to this website.

The 2nd Transnational Project Meeting took place at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana on 6th of June, 2019. The purpose of the meeting was discussion and dissemination of legal, financial and administrative aspects of the project, organisational issues, industrial partners, deliverables, research topics, plan for the following project year and other matters.

The 1st year ELPID final workshop was organised at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana between 3rd and 7th June 2019. After 3 months of collaborative design activity that students (from four partner HEIs) typically shared in a virtual and mobile environment, they participated in a blended short/term mobility initiative: a one-week ELPID final workshop held in Slovenia, where they had the chance […]