Global Engineering Teams is a global university course offered by the department of Assembly Technology and Factory Management from the Technische Universität Berlin. Standard university courses rarely provide the competencies required for global team work.  

  In todays world, engineers are not only required to have state-of-the-art technical knowledge, but also to apply it in global teams. They have to work with colleagues, suppliers, and clients from a different cultural backgrounds, operate as part of a team, and master the challenges of virtual cooperation in industrial engineering tasks.
Companies rarely provide training programs for these skills.
Therefore, engineers must learn global team work on the job. Without proper coaching, this can require years of experience, making work inefficient.