Appendix 1 contains a literature list. We have also collected course material without direct contact with the teachers involved. Some of the contacts and material have resulted in formulations of student projects, others have given less concrete results. Appendix 2 contains a list of contacts. Several of the ideas for problems have not yet emerged into student projects due to one or several of the following reasons the problem is too simple the problem is too difficult the problem is not in the main stream of our interests we have not yet had time to work it out completely There seems to be a systematic difficulty with contacts regarding undergraduate teaching over departmental borders.
Most people are very busy with their own classes and projects in teaching and research.
Yet they find the idea of our student projects interesting and are willing to discuss in general terms and to look at suggestions from us, but in most cases one can not expect more than that. There is probably not enough incentive for further cooperative work. See however the subsections on Computer assignment shared between two courses and Guest Professor below. Assignments involving numerical methods, theory of ordinary differential equations and strength of materials are presently discussed. A technical difficulty here is that the time-schedule for the courses may change and thus locate the courses far from each other in time.