Integrated Product Development and Industrial Design 2024/2025

Danish title

Integreret produktudvikling og industriel design (DA)

Study programme

Product Development and Integrative Technology

Type of education

Full time education

Level of education

Bachelor (top-up)

Semester

6. semester

Duration of the subject/module

10 Weeks

Ects

Programme elements

Compulsory

Language

Danish and English

Start time

Spring

Location

Lygten 16, København NV

Subject number

9989601 / 4107-10156

Responsible for the subject(s)/modul(es)

Peter Sommer ‏

Purpose and learning objectives
Integrative Technology:
Essential to the programme element is an understanding of the concept of technology, research in new technologies and how to apply them - in a commercial context that will allow students to work with integration, exploitation and implementation of technology and concepts in a cross- organisational perspective. The programme element also includes methods and tools for consultative purposes as well as management of interdisciplinary development activities.

Product Development:
This programme element covers product development and process optimisation from a business perspective and how to identify and involve experts and users in the development and optimisation processes. Focus is on interdisciplinary cooperation and on how to identify, collect, process and further develop data in a product and process development context.

Construction and Sustainability:
This programme element covers construction and dimensioning based on students’ qualifying education and specialisation. Sustainability is included in relation to the specialisation and the programme’s focus on product development and integrative technology.

Innovation and Industrial Design:
The programme element focuses on innovation in general and systematic innovation in product development and process optimisation based on an understanding of the relevant industry and its conditions.
Knowledge
Integrative Technology:
The student has acquired:
- (3) development-based knowledge of essential practical and theoretical aspects of product and system integration as well as management, planning and evaluation tools in the field of the environment, including environmental management, environmental management systems and philosophies of sustainability.
Skills
Integrative Technology
The student is able to:
- (3) apply methods and tools for the identification and analysis of important technological
aspects pertaining to the relation between a product's design, production and use as well as master the assessment of significant practical and theoretical aspects of the integration of products and systems including the relations between technology, technique, knowledge and organisation(s).

Product Development:
The student is able to:
(3) apply methods and tools for the identification and collection of relevant company data so
as to contribute to the development and optimisation of processes across the organisation, and master planning of the development work, testing of the product/ the solution (proof of concept) and identify the quality of technological project work compared to the results, validity, reliability, and relevance.
Competences
Integrative Technology:
The student is able to:
- (3) independently engage in academic and interdisciplinary collaboration for the purpose of
implementing technologies and concepts and assume responsibility within the framework of a professional code of ethics, including management of technical development projects.
- (3) identify their own learning requirements and develop their own knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to the development, implementation and management of the
integration of technologies.

Product Development:
The student is able to:
- (3) independently engage in academic and interdisciplinary collaboration across the
organisation for the purpose of implementing product development and assume responsibility within the framework of a professional code of ethics.
- (3) identify their own learning requirements and develop their own knowledge, skills and
competencies in relation to product development.

Construction and Sustainability:
The student is able to:
- (3) handle the construction of complex and development-oriented solutions specific to the specialisation.
- (3) independently engage in academic and interdisciplinary collaboration to optimise existing solutions in an industrial context and assume responsibility within the framework of a professional code of ethics.
- (3) identify their own learning requirements and develop their own specialisation-specific knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to construction and sustainability.

Innovation and Industrial Design:
The student is able to:
- (3) handle innovative methods for solutions to complex and development-oriented industrial situations specific to the specialisation.
- (3) independently engage in academic and interdisciplinary collaboration for the design of new, innovative solutions in an industrial context and assume responsibility within the framework of a professional code of ethics.
Type of instruction
The professional bachelor program in product development and technical integration uses a wide range of teaching and working methods, including:
- Classroom teaching
- Group work
- Case based exercises
- Games and role-playing games
- Business excursions
- Interdisciplinary project-oriented teaching
- Problem-based learning
- Interdisciplinary knowledge sharing
- Student presentation
- Cooperative learning
- Digital learning technologies and learning spaces
- Workshops
- Self-study
Exam
The learning outcomes of the exam are identical with the learning outcomes of the subject(s)/modul(es)
Prerequisites for access to the examination
A crucial part of the justification for this study is the integration part - gaining competence to integrate technical disciplines in interaction with others. This is the integrator role. The study is i.a. for that reason based on group project work, and a satisfactory outcome will only be achieved by participating in these projects. We therefore recommend that students participate in the teaching, including handing in and presenting assignments and projects.

In examination forms where the evaluation is based on a written work, it is a prerequisite that the written work is handed in on time and meets the set formal requirements in order to participate in the examination. If the prerequisite is not met, the student cannot take the test until the prerequisite has been met and the student has used a test attempt.
There is an obligation to attend plenary days at the education.

The sixth semester’s “Interdisciplinary product development and design project”, constitutes the assessment criteria for the exam and must be submitted on time in accordance with the exam plan which can be found on the intranet and satisfy all the formal requirements listed below.
Exam in one or more subjects
Subject/module is tested standalone
The exam is an internal individual oral exam based on a written group project and assessed according to the Danish 7-point grading scale.
Type of exam
Combined written and oral examination
The exam is an internal individual oral exam based on a written group project and assessed according to the Danish 7-point grading scale.

The recommended group size is 2-4 students.
Type of assignment
Project report that documents the development of a physical and/or digital product in cooperation with a company or organization or from a brief provided from the educational program
Formal requirements
The project report must, as a minimum, contain:
- Front page including a title, student photo, name, number of characters and an indication of whether or not it can be published.
- A solemn declaration, table of contents and a list of abbreviations
- Introduction/statement making it explicit how the assignment relates to product
development and integrative technology
- Problem statement with additional questions
- Theory and method
- Analyses and discussions
- Solutions, including digital and/or physical models from trials/mock-up to final proof of
product
- Financial and construction-related impact analyses
- Conclusion
- Perspective
- Bibliography, index of figures and illustrations (including all sources referenced in the
project)
- Appendices (only appendices essential to the report)
- A summary of no more than 3 standard pages with pictures of the final solution must be submitted separately. The pictures are not included in the three standard pages.

The project report for groups with
2 people, maximum number of pages is 18 (43200 characters)
3 and 4 people - maxium number of pages is 20 (48000 Characters)
Individual exam or group exam
Individual
Exam languages
Danish (Norwegian/Swedish)
Duration
The project is presented individually. Each team member has 5 minutes max. to give their presentation followed by examination. 30 minutes are set aside for each examinee including deliberation, grading and a break between students.
Permitted exam aids
All materials and aids, including electronic aids, are allowed unless otherwise stated in the individual exam. KEA may restrict the access to electronic devices for reasons of capacity.
Type of evaluation
7-point grading scale
Examiners
Internal censure
Exam criteria
Students are awarded one aggregate grade as an overall assessment of the written and the oral performance.

The assessment criteria for the exam are equivalent to learning objectives above.
Deadline for submission
The exam is placed at the end of 6th semester. More information with regards to the place and time for the exam can be found in the PTi Roadmap
Re-examination and re-examination due to illness
Students who have been prevented from taking an examination due to a documented illness or another unforeseen circumstance will be given the opportunity to take a new exam as soon as possible. If the exam is in the final exam period of the programme, the student must be allowed to take the exam in the same period or in continuation of this period. The re-examination may be the same as the next regular exam. The student is responsible for finding out when the sick and re-exams take place.
If several individual parts of an exam are to be graded separately, the student can only take an exam in the part(s) not yet completed. This also applies to exams where the individual grades are aggregated in one single grade.
Illness must be documented by a medical certificate and KEA must have received the medical certificate three working days after the exam at the latest. If the illness is not documented, the student will have used an examination attempt.
Preliminary literature list
This is a preliminary literature list. A final literature list will be provided in connection with study start.
Will be given at the start of the studies

120

hours of teaching

154

hours of preparation

The figure shows the extent of workload related to the subject divided into different study activities.

In the subject Integrated Product Development and Industrial Design you will receive 120 hours of instruction, which corresponds to 160 lessons (1 lesson = 45 min.) and 44% of your total workload for the subject.

The teaching primarily consists of the following activities: company collaboration, laboratory work, project work.
The preparation primarily consists of the following activities: project work, group work, searching for information, collecting empiricism.

Read about KEAs Study Activity Model

*KEA can deviate from the number of hours if this is justified by special circumstances