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Imperial and Technische Universität München fund aids education innovation
Five teams from across the College, partnering with colleagues at TUM, have been awarded funds to support them deliver experiential online education.
One of many strands of Imperial and Technical University of Munich’s strategic partnership in education, research and innovation, the education seed fund aims to encourage staff and students at each institution to co-develop new applications for digital technologies. The objective is to fund project teams that are ready to develop innovative, inclusive and impactful online experiential learning opportunities in partnership with our students.
Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of Germany’s most international and entrepreneurial universities, producing highly ranked research, like Imperial, in science, engineering and medicine.
The pandemic has been a surprising innovation force in all areas of design engineering, from advanced manufacturing developments through product design. Oddly, many remote design teams have become more efficient and more creative than their office-based counterparts. Cormac O’Conaire, creative director at Design Partners, spent time with
Design News to explain how virtual reality (VR) has come of age as a design tool during 2020.
Part of the advancement in VR as a design tool comes from ongoing advances in the software and hardware delivered by VR vendors. Yet another part of it comes from the necessities of remote teamwork. “Over the years, our team at Design Partners has designed experiences for AR and VR for various applications from healthcare to gaming, but over the past nine months, we ve been experimenting with VR in its capability in the design process,” O’Conaire told