Conference paper
Collaboration between two innovation courses enhances students’ understanding of organisational context
Afdelingen for Produktionsudvikling, Center for Bachelor of Engineering Studies, Technical University of Denmark1
Center for Bachelor of Engineering Studies, Technical University of Denmark2
Afdelingen for Maskin og Design, Center for Bachelor of Engineering Studies, Technical University of Denmark3
The present paper presents the results of an experiment of close collaboration between two courses at the fourth semester at the bachelor programme ‘Process and Innovation’ at Technical University of Denmark. The two courses are Innovation and Knowledge Management (IKM) and Innovation in an Organisation Context (IOC).
Design-based learning had been use as a learning philosophy in both courses. The aim of the collaboration was to prevent premature closure of the problem definition, when engineering students engage in innovation and design processes. The two courses shared six hospital cases, and the students did initially conduct an in-depth organisational analysis of a hospital department in the IKM course, followed by problem definition and an innovative process in the IOC course.
The case partners answered with some variation that the students had understood their organisational context and that the solution they proposed had taken the context into consideration e.g. economic issues and understanding of the problem they solved. For some of the case partners it was not only the final solution that made value, also the initial analysis and the discussions about the organisational context and problems gave inspiration for the case partners.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2018 |
Proceedings: | Exploring Teaching for Active Learning in Engineering Education (ETALEE 2018)Exploring Teaching for Active Learning in Engineering Education |
ISBN: | 879988982X and 9788799889822 |
Types: | Conference paper |
ORCIDs: | Gish, Liv |