The Business and Engineering course aims to show how business and management concepts and skills have become all important in the world of engineering and innovation. Understanding today's globalised world and the resulting social trends will help students relate to the real needs of society and this ability will further their potential to find creative solutions to the challenges we face.
Students will learn how to step-by-step approaches to innovative and entrepreneurial projects. All of the course material and the deliverables are in English and the oral and written English language skills are an important component of the course.
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Students are expected to be able to properly use the grammatical and functional aspects of the English language which correspond to the B2 independent user, established in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Students should be able to grasp the main idea of written or oral information of professional, academic or leisure-related subjects. Students should be able to cope with most linguistic situations which they may come across when travelling in an English-speaking country. Students should be able to produce coherent, although not free of error speech when expressing ideas or opinions.
The Business and Engineering course aims to show how business and management concepts and skills have become all important in the world of engineering and innovation.
Understanding today’s economic climate and the resulting social trends will help students relate to the real needs of society and this ability will further their potential to find creative solutions to the challenges we face in our increasingly competitive world.
Block 1.
• Globalization
• Introduction and definition
• Basic types (presentation)
• Extended types and how they affect us
• Navigating our global future (TED Talk)
• Global challenges
• Global priorities and challenges
Block 2.
• Soft skills.
• Definition of soft skills: what they are and why they are important
• Survey and identification of personal strengths and weaknesses
• Multiple intelligences
• Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences
• Multiple intelligence tests
• Emotional Intelligence vs. IQ
• What is emotional intelligence? Daniel Goleman
• Effective communication skills
• Assertiveness
• Teamwork and conflict management
• Emotional intelligence in the workplace
Block 3.
• Innovation.
• Definition: imagination, innovation, creativity, and invention
• Innovative companies and innovation teams
• The ten faces of innovation
• Adoption and diffusion of innovation
• Everett Rogers’ five factors
• The adoption process
• The role of social networks in the diffusion and adoption of innovations
• The Design Thinking Process
• Theory, case studies, and application of the Design Thinking process
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Block 4.
• Entrepreneurship
• Introduction
• Definition
• Study of profiles of well-known entrepreneurs / start-up profiles
• Reasons for becoming an entrepreneur / barriers to starting a business
• Business success: social, financial, and/or status-based?
• Entrepreneurship on campus – Technova
• Business Model Canvas and Sales Pitch.
• Validating problems and challenges.
Given the nature of the subject of Business and Engineering and the topics covered on the programme, the following methodologies are implemented in order to help the students secure the learning outcomes:
MD0 Lectures
MD1 Problem-solving tasks and exercises
MD4 Seminar
MD5 Self-paced Learning
MD6 Project-based learning
MD7 Flipped Classroom
MD10 Real events
MD11 Challenge based learning
MD12 Grow through Experiences
MD13 Case studies
All first-year students who are not in possession of an official B2 or above English language accreditation take the Oxford Placement test to find out their level. Students whose results correspond to B1 or inferior are offered a 1.5 hour language support class in order to help them to follow the course, participate in class activities and complete the coursework.
This subject is assessed exclusively on coursework. Deliverables may be individual or involve group collaboration. Students are required to submit different types of task, such as essays, reports, presentations, projects, etcc. All coursework must be submitted in English and linguistic expression is an integral component of the marking in all activities.
The evaluation of the different activities is carried out based on the following criteria:
- Accuracy in the use of the English language (correspondence, presentations, meetings, written work, etc.).
- Range of technical vocabulary related to the fields of Engineering and Business.
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral.
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