Content, progress and pedagogy of the
module
For students to develop key competences in how to use innovation
technologies and simulation tools for the development of products
and services. Overall the project balances around possibilities and
limitations of innovation technologies, virtualization
technologies, concepts, user and employee driven innovation and the
necessary modelling of processes, products and services.
Learning objectives
Knowledge
- Must have knowledge about methods for planning and developing
products in order to identify, analyze and assess the contextual
impacts and perspectives of a given product through virtualization
and rapid prototyping and the impact for manufacturing.
- Must have knowledge about how to model the interaction between
a potential user and a product through virtualization
- Must have good knowledge about the most important concepts in
innovation technology such as for example VR, rapid prototyping,
and design and a basic understanding of state-of-art production
technologies.
- Must have knowledge about central innovation development models
such as lean innovation, agile development, etc.
- Must have knowledge about development of requirement
specifications as a basis for developing a product of service
- Must have basic knowledge about how to compose teams, how to
involve and motivate peers, and how to organize projects
systematically
- Must know how to program production related problems and how to
visualize results
- Must have knowledge of the scientific method and approach used
in the project - as well as possible alternative methods /
approaches
Skills
- Analyze and model individual as well as organizational learning
processes based on experiences from P0 and P1
- Must be able to apply product development models to an actual
case
- Must be able to apply end-user interaction models as a basis
for requirements specifications
- Must be able to apply innovation technologies and design and
production technologies
- Must be able to develop a requirement specification for a given
product or service
- Must be able to link user requirements with the requirement
specification for a given product
- Must be able to evaluate a development project based on
requirements
- Reflect on the construction and reconstruction of science and
technology in a user and society perspective
- Relate the professional practice within the discipline to the
needs of humans and different societies
- Analyze technical or natural scientific problems by use of
social science methodology
- Assess the impacts on human and society from the proposed
solutions
- Assess team competencies and project plans and risk
- To perform a stakeholder analysis
- Must be able to communicate the project ideas, goals and
results to individuals with non-engineering background
- Must be able to use programming techniques to solve and
visualizing production related problems.
- Must have gained an understanding of the methodological and
science-related approach to the management of the project's
problem as well as its advantages and disadvantages.
Competences
- Manage a longer termed project independently
- Generalize the gained experiences with project management and
put them into perspective of the future course of study
- Reflect on the ethical perspective of engineering and science
and discuss implications of a responsible professional
practice
- Must have competencies in development of a requirements
specification
- Must have competencies in elicitation of end-user requirements
and to translate these into the requirement specification for a
specific product/service
- Must have competencies in user interaction models
- Must have competencies in product and/or service development by
use of the innovation technologies and design and production
technologies.
- Must have the competence to oversee and model the entire
process from the innovation to the potential production.
- Must have the competence to coordinate an interdisciplinary
project.
- Must have the competence to communicate with interdisciplinary
project partners.
- Shall have programing skills to solve and visualize production
related problems based on mathematical models.
Type of instruction
The module is carried out as group-based problem-oriented
project work. The group work is carried out as an independent work
process in which the students themselves organize and coordinate
their workload in collaboration with a supervisor. The project is
carried out in groups with normally no more than 7 members.
Extent and expected workload
Since it is a 15 ECTS course module the expected workload is 450
hours for the student.
Exam
Exams
Name of exam | Project in Product and Service Development |
Type of exam | Oral exam based on a project |
ECTS | 15 |
Assessment | 7-point grading scale |
Type of grading | External examination |