Designing Health Innovations
Syllabus, Master's level, 1TS311
- Code
- 1TS311
- Education cycle
- Second cycle
- Main field(s) of study and in-depth level
- Industrial Engineering and Management A1N
- Grading system
- Pass with distinction (5), Pass with credit (4), Pass (3), Fail (U)
- Finalised by
- The Faculty Board of Science and Technology, 25 February 2020
- Responsible department
- Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
Entry requirements
120 credits including 60 credits in science/engineering/medicine/pharmacy/business administration. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
Learning outcomes
On completion of the course the student shall be able to:
- apply the different steps in the Biodesign process focusing on health innovations,
- describe how the Biodesign process can be used to to identify, invent and implement health innovations,
- critically reflect upon and analyse the different steps in the Biodesign process,
- formulate and present a business plan regarding a specific health innovation.
Content
The method Biodesign and its use to identify, invent and implement health innovations.
Instruction
Seminars.
Assessment
Active participation in seminars, poster presentation and oral presentation of group project.
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 special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.