Module ENGI45730: Strategy, Innovation and Design Management

Department: Engineering

ENGI45730: Strategy, Innovation and Design Management

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• This module is designed solely for students studying Department of Engineering degree programmes.
• To introduce key concepts from strategy, innovation and design management.
• To understand strategies, processes and methodologies to manage innovation, design and operations within engineering contexts.
• To develop and practise critical thinking in analysing the organisation of engineering innovation and design.

Content

• An introduction to business economics and organisations.
• Introducing key concepts and frameworks for understanding and analysing the business of engineering and engineering innovation.
• An introduction to technology commercialisation and intellectual property.
• Tools and frameworks for the strategic management of technology.
• The module is developed through four key topics: strategy, innovation, design management and operations.

Learning Outcomes

• Knowledge and understanding of innovation and design as processes.
• Knowledge and understanding of organisational settings for engineering innovation.
• Knowledge of tools to support the strategic management of design and technology.
• An understanding of intellectual property management and technology commercialisation.

• An ability to engage critically with approaches to the strategic management of technology.
• An ability to apply tools for the strategic management of design and innovation across engineering settings.
• An ability to critically assess environmental and societal implications of engineering innovation.
• An appreciation of varied roles and perspectives within innovation processes.
• An ability to take an inclusive approach to engineering innovation practice and recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion as a foundation for effective leadership, teamwork and creativity.

• An ability to apply critical and strategic thinking across multidisciplinary settings.
• An ability to function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader of a team and to reflect on one’s own performance.
• An ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, evaluating the effectiveness of the methods used.
• An ability to reflect upon experiences and performance to further personal development and learning.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The module content is delivered through a series of workshops, equipping students with the required knowledge and providing opportunity for discussion, reflection and group working (weekly).
• Content is reinforced through interactive seminars, allowing students to experience techniques and approaches (approximately fortnightly, 4 per term with one as the poster presentation session).
• Drop in sessions will be scheduled as required, these allow students to discuss any aspect of the module with teaching staff on a one-to-one or group basis.
• Assessment will be through 1) a group poster (with presentation) (30%) synthesising and applying taught material 2) an individual portfolio (70%) of pieces of classwork completed throughout the module and individual learning reflections.
• A formative assessment on a sample portfolio entry (classwork & associated reflections) will be conducted in Michaelmas term.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Portfolio sample

■ Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.