Transformative project
MGT-535 / 10 credits
Teacher(s): Profs divers *, Wicki Samuel David
Language: English
Withdrawal: It is not allowed to withdraw from this subject after the registration deadline.
Summary
The Transformative Projects (TP) aim to encourage the students to develop hands-on skills in various sectors. It reinforces project management and team work skills to solve practical issues at the crossroad of technology, management and sustainability and to develop applied solutions.
Content
Transformative Projects (TP) aim at solving applied, real-life interdisciplinary issues with technology, management and sustainability dimensions. The project outcome needs to be transformative with regard to an existing situation, a current practice, or situation with a systemic aspect that can trigger large-scale transformation towards sustainability.
Examples of topics that could be handled in transformative projects include (among many other possible options):
- A process or organizational innovation
- A new product/service
- A new way to bring a product/service on the market so that it diffuses at a large scale (or to bring an existing product/service from niche to mass market
- Any other issue that is considered as problematic in terms of sustainability, or a solution that significantly improves a sustainability-related problem
Keywords
Sustainability, technology, hands-on learning, project management, problem solving, industry
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
Course only available to SMT students. The students need to have completed all courses of the first two semesters.
Learning Outcomes
- Manage projects in an autonomous way
- Present innovative and applicable solutions to relevant sustainability issues
- Apply the technology, management and sustainability knowledge acquired in the first two semesters.
Transversal skills
- Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
- Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
- Communicate effectively with professionals from other disciplines.
- Resolve conflicts in ways that are productive for the task and the people concerned.
- Respect the rules of the institution in which you are working.
- Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.
- Make an oral presentation.
- Demonstrate a capacity for creativity.
Teaching methods
Project based learning with intro qualitative research methods
Assessment methods
Report 60%
Presentations 40%
Supervision
| Office hours | No |
| Assistants | No |
| Forum | No |
Resources
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
No
Websites
Moodle Link
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Number of places: 40
- Exam form: During the semester (winter session)
- Subject examined: Transformative project
- Project: 10 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: mandatory