Course content

Academic contentProject management, HR, collaboration, teamwork and team process.Project management, project planning with project strategy uncertainty and risk assessment.Practical project work, organization, quality assurance and safeguarding health, environment and safety (HSE).Innovation and new creation.Holistic systems thinking.Project economics, costs, investments, budget and follow-up.

Academic basis for planning, collaborating, leading and implementing a technology project - rooted in real issues, technically and socially in the profession. shall contribute to enabling students to work professionally in a holistic and interdisciplinary context. shall also contribute to students being able to work from a systemic whole, and shall also give students a better basis for understanding the environmental and social consequences of technology.

Learning outcome

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

The candidate

has knowledge of project organization, methods and reporting, including risk analysis and quality assurance.

has knowledge of project innovation in a technological perspective.

has basic knowledge of project management and project economics,costs, investments, budget and follow-up.

has knowledge of sustainable technology with connections between technical individual elements and the systemic whole.

Skills

The candidate

can create a project plan and set up a project budget and assess investments, profitability and financial risk.

can carry out a project and apply methods for creative thinking on technology processes.

has developed team skills and can exercise good project collaboration and communicate project results and the subject in a systemic context.

can assess the economic and environmental properties of products, processes or services

General competence

The candidate

has an understanding of and can assess the need for innovation to contribute to good and holistic system solutions in the labour market and society.

can assess ethical dilemmas that may arise through a project and design process.

has an understanding of the impact of a project and can take into account ethics, the environment, technology, the individual and society.

can demonstrate holistic systems thinking in interaction with others in technologists (in design, creativity and innovation).

can communicate sustainability issues within the technology subject to professionals within their own and other fields and communicate results orally and in writing in teams.

Learning methods and activities

Learning methods and activities

It is planned that students will work in teams on this topic.Team work can take place both across study programs and within their own program. It is arranged to use a wide and varied selection of work and learning methods that contribute to students achieving personal development and independence in their own profession.

Flexibility of teaching arrangements that enable a high degree of online participation in work requirements and workshops. Online lectures

Mandatory work requirements.

Individual assignments are graded as pass/fail.

Teamwork

Compulsory assignments

• Assignments, see course description

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

Passed 100 credits at NTNU.

Required previous knowledge

Admission at NTNU

Course materials

Recommended textbooks and curriculum requirements are given at the start of the course.