The aim of the Joint Interdisciplinary Project (JiP) is to prepare Master students for their entry into the workforce after their study. In JiP they will contribute to solving impactful, real-life technological challenges provided and supervised by renowned companies. Interdisciplinary student teams are guided by a company coach and are offered academic and industry expertise. These projects not only demand good engineering working knowledge but also a solid grounding in interdisciplinary and systems thinking, and both knowledge and mindsets of innovation and entrepreneurial behaviour. The curriculum of Jip was designed to deliver this. The current study aims to evaluate the curriculum design with a pre and post-test survey amongst students about their, cognitive, social and emotional expectations and challenges in interdisciplinary working and the highlights of the learning process during the programme.
