Today's engineering professionals are expected to conduct business globally, often collaborating within teams that are geographically distributed in various countries with diverse languages, business cultures and governmental regulations. This increasingly important aspect of distributed teamwork has not yet been addressed by engineering institutions. The Global Product Development course described in this paper tackles this issue by using e-technologies to create a global classroom spanning three continents and allowing global teams of students to work collaboratively to develop global products. It provides students a unique understanding of time, space, and cross-cultural barriers that need to be overcome in the new distributed workplace of global companies.
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