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ADSE4108 - Product Development and Innovation

Offering Academic Unit
Department of Systems Engineering
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Pre-requisite(s)
Students under 2-year curriculum (ASII Entry): Completion of at least 30 CUs of the programme requirement (excluding OOD, University Language) by semester B of the preceding academic year. Students under 4-year and 3-year curriculum (both normative 4-year and ASI entry): Completion of at least 45 CUs of the Major Requirement (excluding GE & College Requirements).
Equivalent Course(s)
Course Offering Term*:
Not offering in current academic year

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

Modern enterprises need to continually design and innovate their products and services in order to stay competitive in the globalized marketplace. This course aims to help students learn the fundamental knowledge and techniques useful for designing new products and services for modern enterprises. After an introduction to issues surrounding the challenges of product and service development, this course will provide students with the learning of methodologies in identifying opportunities and customer needs for developing new products and/or services. Students will also learn the basics of planning and managing product/service design projects. It will include creativity for concept generation, IP search and concept selection and concept testing for developing new products and/or services. The students will practice these techniques through a team project. The course covers both physical innovation and digital innovation.


Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)
Continuous Assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%
Examination Duration: 2 hours
Examination: Students will be assessed via the examination to their understanding of the concepts and techniques learned as well as the capabilities to apply these concepts, theories and techniques.

For a student to pass the course, at least 30% of the maximum mark for the examination should be obtained.
 
Detailed Course Information
ADSE4108.pdf