Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Must have knowledge of the collection and analysis of empirical data.
• Must have knowledge of analytical methods for contracting order process.
• Must have knowledge of project management theories and methods.
• Must have knowledge of modelling processes.

Skills

• Analyse a construction order process with emphasis on design and manufacturing issues.
• Process empirical project data.
• Explain the production, quality and cost issues in the order process.
• Interpret the relationship between activities in production through the construction of whole models and detailed models that describe these conditions.
• Analyse process flows and value creation.
• Reasoning between the project and the organization's structural, technical and resource building.
• Interpret the interaction between the parties involved in a project or contract manufacturing company's various organizational units.
• Argue by using precise production-related terminology.

Competences

• Must be able to assess the proposed systems and their sensitivity to changes in e.g. customer demands, regulatory, quality, etc.
• Must be able to establish operational production models. The models can be based on a deterministic, stochastic or heuristic basis.
• Must be able to assess the impact on the company or the project if the current conditions are changed and the supposed changes are implemented. The changes should be evaluated by for example economical, organizational, social and technical consequences. 
• Must be able to assess the importance for the company or the project of changing the current situation and introduce the proposed amendment, which must be assessed from e.g. economic, organizational, social and technical consequences.
• Must be able to prepare and reflect on concrete implementation plans
• Must be able to communicate the results obtained from the project work in a project report.
• Must be able to work around the problem field project and make a joint presentation of the project results.

Type of instruction

Project work with teacher feedback supplemented with lectures, workshops, presentation seminars and more.

Extent and expected workload

Since it is a 15 ECTS project module, the workload is expected to be 450 hours for the student.

Exam

Exams