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INGA2301 - Engineering Systems Thinking

About

Lessons are not given in the academic year 2024/2025

Course content

Supplementary course within the study field of technology, with innovation and entrepreneurship as generic theme.

  • Innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship
  • Project-based work, organisation and methods, including risk analysis and quality assurance
  • Teamwork and team process
  • Hands-on environmental engineering systems analysis
  • Sustainability and sustainable development
  • Economic management and investments

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate has

  • knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship in a technological perspective
  • basic knowledge about economic management and investments
  • knowledge about project organisation, methods and reporting, including, risk analysis and quality assurance
  • knowledge about sustainable engineering and environmental systems analysis

Skills

The candidate can

  • perform investment calculations, and assess profitability and economic risk
  • prepare simple budgets
  • analyse economic and environmental characteristics of products, processes or services
  • practice good interdisciplinary teamwork
  • apply methods for creative thinking on technology processes
  • define systems and analyse value chains with footprint analysis, life cycle assessment and energy analysis, as well as define and calculate energy and material efficiency indicators on systems level

General competence

The candidate can

  • assess the need for entrepreneurship in labour marked and society
  • assess ethical dilemmas that may arise in an entrepreneurship process
  • account for ethical, environmental, technological, individual and societal perspectives
  • demonstrate systems thinking and interaction with other engineers for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship
  • communicate business and sustainability related issues to professionals within own and other disciplines
  • disseminate results orally and in writing in teams

Learning methods and activities

  • Lectures
  • Individual exercises
  • Interdisciplinary teamwork

Further on evaluation

Compulsory assignments given at the beginning of the semseter, consisting of

  • Individual assigments (exercises and possibly other individual tasks)
  • Group-based assignments and presentation (possibly project subtasks, peer-to-peer evalution and presentation)

Off campus exam: Individual digital exam in March constitutes 60 % of the final grade.

Group work: Group report constitutes 40 % of the final grade.

The re-sit examination may be conducted as an oral examination.

The re-sit exam is conduced in May/June.

Continuation and voluntary repetition / improvement can be carried out for some sub-evaluations without having to reassess both sub-evaluations in a topic. There is an opportunity to complain about partial assessments in this topic before all sub-evaluations have been completed.

Required previous knowledge

None

Course materials

Given at the beginning of the semester

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
INGG2301 7.5 AUTUMN 2023
INGA2300 7.5 AUTUMN 2023
INGT2300 7.5 AUTUMN 2023
INGT2301 7.5 AUTUMN 2023
INGG2300 7.5 AUTUMN 2023
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Intermediate course, level II

Coursework

Language of instruction: Norwegian

Location: Ålesund

Subject area(s)
  • Engineering
Contact information

Department with academic responsibility
Department of Energy and Process Engineering

Timetable

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Examination

  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

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