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Each year, a few of the teams in ME310 will have remote partners at other universities, in the US or abroad. The teams use a combination of phone, videoconferencing, fax, email and web site to keep in touch.
Still, a site visit early on to meet the other students and get to know them is almost essential for building trust and understanding.
At the end of the year, the results of the teams that had global partners are the same quality as the strictly local teams.
But the quality of design documentation is invariably better (because it had to be).