Learning outcome

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

The candidate can:

• Explain methods for risk and uncertainty analysis
• Provide an account of environmental analysis tools
• Explain quality control methods
• Explain methods used in concept and design analysis
• Provide an explanation of cost analysis methods
• Provide an explanation of documentation management methods
• Explain how HSE is organized and managed in an organization
• Provide an explanation of life cycle analysis methods
• Explain methods of calculation relating to social usefulness

Skills

The candidate can:

• Solve interdisciplinary problems using their own discipline as a starting point
• Prepare a project budget

General competence

The candidate:

• Has an understanding of an engineer’s social responsibility
• Is able to adopt an ethical perspective in relation to work
• Is able to contribute to HSE work in an organization
• Can follow up on the progress of projects

Course Description

The purpose of the course is to enable students to work with a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective in relation to engineering problems, experience group dynamics in a temporary project group, consisting of students from all programmes, and understand decision-making processes in business.

Teaching and Learning Methods

The learning outcomes will be ensured through a combination of lectures, seminars and interdisciplinary project work. The project is based on what is learned in project methodology and concludes with a written report.

Assessment Methods

Documents produced in an interdisciplinary project: Counts 40%.

Individual final examination in which the curriculum comprises subject material taught in class and exercises that have been carried out through participation in the project: Counts 60%.

Work requirement: Hand-in problem on ethics.

Students must earn a passing grade in the final examination and the project assignment and have the work requirement paper approved in order to be awarded a passing grade for the course.

Individual grade (A-F) will be given both for the final examination and the project assignment.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean