Want to create a new Blue Dot project?

How to start a new Blue Dot project

Starting a new Blue Dot project takes place in two steps:

1. The project lead or a group of students meets with Dean Lars D. Christoffersen, who formally approves the project.
2. The project is then published on the DTU Blue Dot website with a photo, description, contact person, and information on how interested students can get involved.

Criteria for a Blue Dot project

To be considered for a Blue Dot project, your project must meet the Blue Dot characteristics:

• They exceed the normal scope of project work by putting learning into a new context and by involving real-life and relevant engineering projects
• They extend beyond a single student, semester, and department
• They have a clear purpose. Students test their skills in practice. It must also be possible to use the result in practice and, for example, present it at an engineering competition or the like
• The projects involve close contact with the business sector or other relevant external and internal stakeholders
• They are academically very demanding and require a commitment out of the ordinary in relation to the theoretical and practical challenges of the project
• They are interdisciplinary and require intensive teamwork between the various engineering domains with a view to finding the best solution to specific engineering problems or challenges
• They have open problems that require creative solutions, which the students have to work out and describe, plan and implement as well as complete (parts of)
• In their structure (and organization), they reflect how an engineer actually works in practice
• They create identity and strengthen students’ academic and personal development
• They result in sustainable solutions.