Track 2. Engineering Education and Technological / Professional Learning Authors: Christopher Mahon, Marta Majewska, Manuel Baptista, Melanie Tscholl, Sven Bergervoet, Benedita Malheiro, Cristina Ribeiro, Jorge Justo, Manuel Silva, Paulo Ferreira and Pedro Guedes.

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Outdoor Intelligent Shader – An
EPS@ISEP 2018 Project
Christopher Mahon, Manuel Baptista, Marta
Majewska, Melanie Tscholl, Sven Bergervoet,
Benedita Malheiro, Manuel F. Silva, Cristina
Ribeiro, Jorge Justo, Paulo Ferreira, Pedro Guedes

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Outlook
1. Introduction
2. Project Supportive Modules
3. Project Development
4. Conclusions

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1. Introduction
2. Project Supportive Modules
3. Project Development
4. Conclusions

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Introduction
What is EPS?
• What is EPS?
(http://europeanprojectsemester.eu/)
– one-semester capstone project / internship
programme
– prepare future engineers to think and act globally
– engineering, product design and business
undergraduates
– 19 European engineering schools: 10 Golden Rules
– EPS is project centered
– Working language is English
– Accompanying subjects must support the
project
– Main focus in EPS is team work
– Multinational project groups, size 3-6 students,
min. 3 nationalities, multi disciplinarily desired

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Introduction
EPS@ISEP
• EPS@ISEP

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Team formation
• Arriving to Porto – begin EPS
– Belbin test
– group formation
• Marta Majewska, Logistics, Poland
• Melanie Tscholl, Media Technologies, Italy
• Manuel Baptista, Mechanical Engineering, Portugal
• Christopher Mahon, Electric, Electronic & Energy Engineering,
UK
• Sven Bergervoet, Industrial Product Design, The Netherlands
• List of different projects
– Outdoor Intelligent Shader
– budget 100.00 €

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EPS@ISEP

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Outlook
1. Introduction
2. Project Supportive Modules
3. Project Development
4. Conclusions

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Project Supportive Modules
Marketing
– “state of the art”
– Outdoor Intelligent Shader
• design new type of parasol, granting a novel wellness and luxury
experience
• combine functionalities of smart electronics with traditional
parasol

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Project Supportive Modules
Marketing
• Market segmentation, positioning, brand, design
– focus on Europe
– proposed product has yet no rival on the market
– combines smart technology and modern design canopy, but provides
an environment friendly solution

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1. Introduction
2. Project Supportive Modules
3. Project Development
4. Conclusions

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Design concepts

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Final design

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Prototype rendering

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Blackbox diagram

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Finite element analysis

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Detailed assembly drawings

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Electrical schematics

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Software flowchart

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Tests and results

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Outlook
1. Introduction
2. Project Supportive Modules
3. Proposed Solution
4. Conclusions

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Conclusions
• EPS program provided an innovative educational experience
for the team members
– learning approach, drawing knowledge from different fields in a
series of subjects, from the different attributes and cultures of each
member of the group
• Tangible result is the “Outdoor Intelligent Shader”
– Team learning experience more important
• Main difficulties faced by the team
– differences in culture, study fields and personalities can lead to
frictions within the team
– maintaining the motivation and unity of the team was not always an
easy task

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Conclusions
• Personal and learning outcomes of this process
– “[…] EPS has widened my horizons in terms of what to expect when
working as part of a team in an engineering environment. It has been a
wonderful setting for me to better understand how to function as part of
a group to meet deadlines, work together and to achieve goals in a
relatively short space of time […]”
– “[…] the fact that the groups were multicultural and multidisciplinary
was, sometimes overwhelming to deal with, because of the different
backgrounds […]”
– “[…] it is such an experience to work in a small group with people from
different countries and all sorts of expertise’s. You really need to
cooperate because you rely on everyone! And another good thing is that
it is possible to build a product from beginning till the end. From
marketing till the electronics […]”
– “[…] EPS was a great opportunity to discover fields of engineering and
also diverse people from other countries. […] With all the ups and downs.
I will never forget my semester here in Porto! […]”

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Team Video

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Acknowledgments
• COMPETE 2020 project «POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961»
• FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia project
UID/EEA/50014/2013

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Questions?