Innovation Pilot (summer edition)

Enable you to solve complex challenges in companies through using your engineering knowledge and thereby train an innovative mindset. - In the course, you will learn how to organize and implement a multidisciplinary innovation process using relevant innovation models and methods as well as technological knowledge. - Give you a basic understanding of activities and processes in an innovation process and work on how innovation models and methods are applied and adapted to an innovation challenge in practice. The goal is also to connect business understanding and value creation with the innovation process as well as solving this kind of challenges in a manner of an engineering professional. - Train the understanding and analysis of a problem and its context, and relate it to a business, organizational, technological and user perspective and, on this basis, formulate a number of possible solutions. - Train communication of problem awareness, needs and solutions to relevant stakeholders through, pitch, prototypes and written presentation. - Provide insight and experience in working and collaborating across engineering disciplines as part of your engineering professionalism. The course is based on interdisciplinary team-work on a company project. Interdisciplinary team-work requires that you work together. Consequently, an active attendance is expected to pass the course. Teaching takes place as a combination of project work, e-learning, and workshops. Course duration is 6 weeks NB!! Please note, for S25 the course is offered in these weeks: 27-28-29 and 32-33-34 (all 6 weeks are included).

At the end of the course the learner will be able to: • Explain basic theory and methods in innovation and business understanding as well as cooperation and communication • Explain and apply the course's innovation theory foundation in connection with an innovation process • Investigate and map the context of a given problem in order to understand for example market, value creation, trends, needs and technological opportunities. • Set up vision and goals for an innovation process by looking at the innovation challenge from different perspectives and using relevant innovation methods • Organize and design an innovation process to solve a concrete innovation challenge and explain and evaluate the chosen process and method based on theory • Use relevant innovation methods and tools for key elements of the innovation process. • Analyze, evaluate and describe possible solutions to an innovation challenge from a business, technological, organizational and user perspective. • Select and argue for a chosen innovation solution and describe how to implement the solution as well as the business potential and budget. • Work and collaborate across engineering disciplines and organize cooperation in a heterogeneous project group Illustrate and present results of project work orally for relevant stakeholders • Communicate a solution proposal as a written presentation that includes a documented prototype as well as analyses and considerations on business, users, sustainability, organizational and technological issues and furthermore considers the implementation of the proposed solution. • Evaluate and reflect on co-operation in an interdisciplinary team, including the role of own and others in the innovation process in order to understand how the team communicates, plans, makes decisions, solves problems, manages discrepancies, and manages professional and personal differences as well as how own and others' competencies are used in the solution of a concrete task.

Evaluation is based on e-learning exam, process reports, innovation presentation, and prototype. The final grade is an overall assessment of the mentioned elements.

First two years of study

The course is based on interdisciplinary team-work on a company project. Active attendance is expected to pass the course. Teaching takes place as a combination of project work, e-learning, and workshops.