The paper presents experiences from an international student project course in turbomachinery aeromechanics, which has been established within the framework of the H2020 research project ARIAS (“Advanced Research Into Aeromechanical Solutions”). The main activities, challenges, and lessons learned from the students’ feedback and instructors’ experience from 2020 to 2022 are presented from an educational point of view. A key goal of the aeromechanic project course (APC) is to strengthen the link between education and research based on multinational collaborative work. The course focuses on gradually enabling the students to perform a forced response analysis within one academic semester. This is achieved by providing the necessary fundamentals as well as training and application of interdisciplinary tools to investigate structural and aerodynamic effects. The course is based on online lectures, tool-specific tutorials, literature reviews, and guest lectures. The students work via web-based communication in international teams conducting various numerical analyses to determine distinct influences on forced response phenomena at the ARIAS TUDa transonic compressor. Metrics regarding the course structure, quality, project rating, and students’ feedback are obtained via an anonymous survey. The shown collaborative results and conclusions presented by the students display that the gap between theoretical knowledge and application is reduced.
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