Introductions to the Augsburg-Pitt Team
Our first day of meeting together as a group for the first time with the students from the University of Augsburg was actually a lot smoother than most would have foreseen. Dr. Ray Jones certainly helped us get to know our German teammates with an icebreaker and introductions. Meanwhile, it was also really quite helpful that the German students spoke such fluent English – with the exception of a very small amount of words that they had difficulty grasping into their vocabulary, we had absolutely no problems with the communication within our group. We were able to easily share our ideas and what we were looking to accomplish with our analysis of Fujitsu Technology Solutions.
Although it was a bit intimidating to address our project, as we noted that Fujitsu Siemens had just been bought out by Fujitsu and converted to Fujitsu Technology Solutions – we had no prior information or company objectives due to the recent change, we realized quickly that we could be confident just by relying on the skills that we already possessed. As engineering students, we had good technical knowledge of many different aspects of the computer manufacturing and information technology fields, and the business students could clearly identify possible outcomes and strategies that a company in their position may utilize. We soon realized that together, we could make a project like this work quite smoothly, as each member could input what he or she had good knowledge of, and with a group effort to reason and tackle the project at hand, we would be able to weather whatever may be in store.