Product Development (7 cr)
Code: 5000BL69-3006
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.12.2021 - 17.01.2022
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 10.01.2022 - 30.04.2022
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 7 cr
- Local portion
- 7 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- English
- Seats
- 100 - 150
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Information and Communications Technology
- Degree Programme in Information and Communication Technology
- Teachers
- Jaakko Lamminpää
- Poppy Skarli
- Mauri Suhonen
- Jetro Vesti
- Leena Mattila
- Tiina Ferm
- Course
- 5000BL69
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
January–April 2022
• 1/2022 - 4/2022: Different tasks of product development.
• 1/2022 - 4/2022: Groups' optional project in which the planning and implementation and reporting are included
• 4/2022: Demo Day in the ICT-City.
Objective
After completing the course the student can:
- describe and perform product development process steps
- create a project plan - act as a member of a project group
- perform technical problem solving in small groups
- plan, design and document simple programs
- write reports and design promotional materials
- utilize an e-learning platform.
Content
- Planning, implementing and documenting an R&D project
- Life cycle of a product
- Safety at electrical work
- Basic programming (iteration, selection, parallelism)
- Documentation of a program
- E-learning platform
- Office programs, tools for project planning and management
- Team working
Materials
Network material in Itslearning.
Teaching methods
lessons, tasks, independent studying, teamwork, project work
Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development
During the course, the students study the basic skills of product development. The students work in groups and produce a new innovative solution to problems of everyday life. The student groups make a project plan, marketing plan and testing plan during the course for their groups' own project. Furthermore, the groups have to track their hours for the whole course. The course culminates in a competition taking place in April where company representatives will evaluate the quality of the student products.
After completing the course the student can:
- describe and perform product development process steps
- create a project plan
- act as a member of a project group
- perform technical problem solving in small groups
- plan, design and document simple programs/products
- write reports and design promotional materials
- taking into account patents, laws and directives relating to various products
- utilize an e-learning platform.
Student workload
Lessons 60 h
Independent studying, making and presenting groups' optional project 130 h
Evaluation methods and criteria
• Weekly tasks
• Final report
• Working hours. (peer review)
• Success in the Demo Day.
The weight value of all these has been informed in the Assessment form of the group
Further information
The laptop is needed during the course.