Course content

Industry Project - Project for working life

The assignment must be given by a company/organisation linked to the student's field of study. Business contact is established through career fairs/seminars/company visits, where the student himself must actively apply for relevant businesses in order to gain entry. The purpose is relevant problem solving/working life training and recruitment for the business.

The project-work and the project's consequences in an ethical perspective Impact in the life course in terms of the environment, society and technology.Apply project methodology in identifying, planning and executing projects. Project objective: Suggest/implemented improvements/HSE/KS in project.

1. PROJECT TEAM Group process. Establishment of project organisation. Distribution of: project roles (responsibility and authority) and collaboration agreement. Resource planning

2. IDEA DEVELOPMENT Identification of theme, ideas, possible solutions and input factors

3. PROJECTION (PLAN) planning, data acquisition and resource calculations. Project plan for execution.Work plan with resource calculations working hours.

4. EXPERIMENT PERFORMANCE (DO) Investigation/Practical trials - project work to obtain results and test the solution. Select and describe activities that ensure intended quality.

5. IMPACT ANALYSIS CHECK (CHECK) Investigate/uncover the project's impact on the economy, environment, society as well as social effects and consequences. (Risk analysis/Energy consumption in production - budget. (energy calculation operation)/CO2 equivalents).

6. EVALUATION AND DISCUSSION - ENABLE IMPROVEMENT (ACT) - CONCLUSION Evaluation and discussion / quality control of the results verifiability, reliability and validity. Verifying the quality of the project work.- quality control discussion and reflection

Learning outcome

You must be able to apply project methodology in the identification, planning and implementation of projects.

You must be able to perform digital modeling of sustainable processes, including understanding the project work and the project's consequences in an ethical perspective, including the project work's impact in the life cycle with regard to the environment, society and technology.

Learning methods and activities

Practice, Guidance Mandatory work requirements: Approval of project plan. The subject is carried out as a project. The student must establish the project with an industrial/production company. Before starting a project, there must be an approved problem, research outline and project plan. The project plan must be based on the principles of scientific method; see recommended literature.

There is a requirement that the subject manager approves the uniqueness of the project work. The course is given as guided self-study. If there are more than 25 registered students, more teaching will be offered in addition. The implementation has a degree of flexibility and can be completed online in its entirety.

Recommended previous knowledge

Experience working in an industrial company.

Course materials

A renewed bibliography is given at the start of the semester. Current literature: Knut Halvorsen: Researching society - an introduction to scientific methods, ISBN978-82-02-28194-6. Erik Lerdahl Innovation: workbook in creative methods. ISBN: 9788205514294; 2017.

NS-ISO 9000/1, NS-ISO 26000: 2010 Guidance on social responsibility ISO 14001 System comprehensive environmental work management. NS-ISO 21500: 2012 Guidance in project management CEN / TS 16555-6: 2014 Innovation management - Management of creative processes NS-EN 16271: 2012