Entry requirements

200 credits within the Master's Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management, including an Independent Project in Industrial Engineering and Management, and 15 credits at the second-cycle level in Technology.

Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course students should be able to

• in a group, plan, lead and implement a complex industrial development project based on goals, methods and timetable in collaboration with a technology-intensive organisation,
• identify and apply relevant in-depth knowledge in industrial engineering and management and other related technical areas to carry out the project,
• develop and report solutions that take into account business, engineering, ethical and sustainable aspects of the challenge the project addresses,
• critically review and discuss the proposed solutions of others and reflect on their own role in their group's work,
• critically review, discuss and reflect on current issues in practice and research in industrial engineering and management.

Content

The course functions as a capstone course where advanced knowledge is integrated and deepened to solve an engineering problem. The course thus implements an advanced industrial development project that brings together the different sub-areas of the programme. The project highlights current challenges with industrial innovation, industrial engineering and management, and technology shifts. The project is carried out in collaboration with companies, organisations or in some cases research groups. Business development and strategic management of technology shifts both within research in industrial engineering and management and, among other things, strategic thinking in technology-intensive businesses.

Instruction

Lectures, seminars, supervision of project work and study visits. The project work is supported by supervision and seminars and concludes with presentation of the project work.

Assessment

Active participation in seminars and study visits and also written assignments (3 credits). Oral and written presentations of project work and also oral and written opposition on other students' project work (7 credits).

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding targeted pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.

Other regulations

The course cannot be included in a degree together with 1TS351 Technology, Business Development and Management.