Innovation and Continuing Professional Development Report

On successful completion of this module, student should be able to:

1. Critically evaluate and apply appropriate innovation and creativity tools and techniques to solve a technical problem to achieve a sustainable future.

2. Reflect objectively on your own career aspirations and potential professional development for the next 10 years to produce a suitable output for dissemination.

As part of your continuing professional development you will assess how ethical  engineering concepts and your responsibility of as an individual engineer is part of your 4 future career as an engineer striving for a sustainable future for the planet. You will also consider how this interaction with the responsibilities of governments, industrial companies and nongovernmental institutions. You will plot your career path using an appropriate technique such as trajectory diagram and produce an enhanced CV for external use.

A list of possible examples of suitable areas which could be used for your solving of technical problems is shown below. These are not exhaustive and you are encouraged to explore novel ways of achieving the learning outcomes;

- Apply creative methodologies for the solution of a design problem that affects the function of a component and undertake a suitable study to overcome this,

- Undertake a study of your engineering industry and look at a specific problem in design, manufacture, construction or infrastructure.

- Solve a process problem which has affected the manufacture of a project, the supply of a service or a maintenance activity. You will undertake a structured reflection on your work to solve a particular technical problem and locating the demonstrable outcomes in an academic context.

Learning outcome 1

An individual technical report and presentation (any format) that demonstrates the use, and application of innovation andcreativity concepts and theory to solve a technical problem to achieve a sustainable future This is word count includes the initial innovation project report 2,500 words in length or equivalent with a power point presentation of around 500 words , giving a total word count of 3,000 words

Critically evaluate and apply appropriate innovation and creativity tools and techniques to solve a technical problem to achieve a sustainable future.

Innovation Report and Presentation The aim of this assignment is to produce an individual technical report and presentation that demonstrates the evaluation, use and application of innovation tools and theory to solve a technical problem to achieve a sustainable future.

Reflect objectively on your own career aspirations and potential professional development for the next 10 years to produce a suitable output for dissemination.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this assignment is to produce an individual report that demonstrates the evaluation, use and application of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) tools and theory in order to reflect on your own career aspirations for the next ten years.

• The assignment has 2 Tasks. Please read ALL TASKS carefully.

• The Innovation Report and Presentation will cover LO1 of the module.

• The Continuing Professional Development Report will cover LO2 of the module

• The attendance percentage and participation in class tutorials will contribute towards the achievement of First class grade.

• Both the assignments must be submitted on time to be considered for a First class grade.

• PLAGIARISM is considered a serious offence and will automatically lead to a Referral grade. In the event of similar/identical submissions, please note that both students will automatically be referred in the module When IPADS/TABLETS/MACS are used please make sure documents are saved as .doc. Otherwise submission will not be valid and considered as a non-submission.

This assignment covers the following learning outcomes:

LO1. Critically evaluate and apply appropriate innovation and creativity tools and techniques to solve a technical problem to achieve a sustainable future.

LO2. Reflect objectively on your own career aspirations and potential professional development for the next 10 years to produce a suitable output for dissemination.

Innovation and Creativity Concepts and Tools for Engineering Problem Solving:

Various innovation and creativity aspects and tools will be studied depending on the particular engineering discipline being undertaken. These would typically include:

Sustainability

Environmental life cycle analysis and appropriate future technologies and approaches within your engineering discipline, e.g. Product Service Systems (PSS). Sustainability and ethics. Use of case studies.

Continued Professional Development

Structured reflection on future career pathway typically including:

The use of tools e.g. SWOT analysis, Personal Development Planning (PDP.

Continued Professional Development (CPD) and professional registration requirements pertinent to your engineering discipline

Qualifications routes and future roles requirements and development

Research a range of potential tools and approaches that have the potential to provide solutions to the identified “challenge”. This should be set out as a critical review considering the suitability and appropriateness of the range  of tools available to you if they were applied to your problem area. Don’t just describe the tools you are expected to research and critically evaluate their suitability for your purposes.

Your task is to:

· Plan and carry out research on a successful engineered product You will need to:

· choose a suitable product

· plan how to undertake the research

· research what made the product successful. Your evidence must include:

· a research plan

· details of information sources

· an explanation of why the product has been successful

Critical Evaluation of the innovation tools

In a separate section, provide a critical evaluation of the tools reviewed in 2.above using advanced techniques such as Decision Matrices (Kepner Tregoe would be one technique, for example). Justification of your decisionsrelated to completion of the evaluation should be based on reasoning and included in a methodology for the study. You should also include rationalisations, from your own perspective, whether you feel that they may or may not be appropriate and provide reasoning for this. Citations of other case studies or examples from innovation literature to support your arguments and justification would be useful additions.

Your task is to:

· Investigate the product in terms of its innovation and new technology at the time of its development.

· analyse the products design and the technology that produced it

· identify how this product has led to other innovative designs

· evaluate how this product exploited new and emerging technologies

· Describe what is entrepreneurship.

· analysis of the products design and technology

· research of what is entrepreneurship