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GM CRP4 Product Development in Mentor Company (CU2007) ( forår 2011 - 10 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

  • Uddannelsessprog: engelsk
  • Niveau: Bachelor
  • Semester/kvarter: 4 th semester
  • Timer per uge: 8 hours per week
  • Deltagerbegrænsning: 40 students max.
  • Undervisningssted: Herning
  • Hovedområde: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
  • Udbud ID: 29600

Formål

The objective of the interdisciplinary project is:

- To provide the student with broad and practical knowledge of product development disciplines through a practical and theoretical project in the mentor company/own company or other company.

- To let the student use some of the acquired knowledge from the course GPD1 and other relevant knowledge (own search) in a problem oriented project.

- To train the student in perspectivating the acquired theoretical and/or practical knowledge in the project.

- To further strengthen the student's capabilities in project oriented teamwork in a company compared to previously project TVP1, TVP2 and CRP3.

- Furthermore to train the student in using new and previously taught working methods to describe parts of problems through analysing the problem. Subsequent the project aim is drawn up.

- To gain practical knowledge about planning and solving a defined problem within a given time period in a close and binding collaboration with the advisor, in order for the project to contain a documented and usable solution.

- To ensure that the student acquire routines with project within their field of profession.

Indhold

It is a precondition for the success of the project that a close and committed cooperation between all interested parties throughout the entire project period is established. (Mentor company, Own company or other company)

 

The centre of CRP4 is a general product development task where further development of the process-related skills, work methods and practice of acquired theories are stimulated through a problem-based project.

 

The student will be working on a problem based project in relation to the GPD1 course development. The project must contain and apply in practice elements from the GPD1 course and other relevant scientific knowledge.

 

Due to GMCRP4 being coordinated with the GPD1 course, it is possible for student to carry out interviews with key employees of the cooperating company, collect data and carry out structured analyses and subsequently identifying the main problem in close cooperation with the advisor.

 

The students are to hand in a project with a clear problem statement, which through diverse analyses is answered in the following processes.

Faglige forudsætninger

The GMM courses: OPE1, MAN1, TVP1, TVP2 and CRP3 - or something equivalent - must have been passed by the student.

Concurrently with the course, the student must attend the GMM courses GPD1 and GKO2

Underviser

Helle Bloch Jessen (responsible)

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

The teaching methods for this course (CRP4) are:

 

Mainly project-/problem-oriented teaching, self-study and presentations.

Litteratur

Mike Baxter and Stanley Thornes: Product Design

 

Ulrich and Eppinger Product design and development

 

Tushman and Anderson Strategic Innovation - a collection of readings

 

Kotler/Keller - Pearson / Prentice Hall Marketing Management 12 th Ed.

 

Arjan J. van Weele, Purchasing and supply chain management, analysis, strategy, planning and practice, fourth edition, 2005, Thomson Learning, ISBN 1-84480-024-5

Bedømmelse

Oral examination based on the completed project report.

External examiner.

 

The evaluation and examination is based on the complete project report incl. the management report, process report and enclosures. It is an individual exam based on the complete project report.

 

If more than 1 student have worked together and created a joint project report, then the student needs to include a list stating which student have contributed with what. Maximum 2 students for one report if they are in the same mentor company.

 

Each student will get an individual mark according to the Danish 7-step scale.

 

In general the course is evaluated according to the guidelines for evaluation.