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Programme objectives

Master (One Year), Product Realisation (TPRPM), Study programme for batch Autumn 11

Last edit: 16/03/2011
Approved: 16/03/2011

In addition to the aims that are specified in the higher education ordinance and KTH's local degree ordinance, there are specific aims for this programme.

Knowledge and understanding

  • show a broad technical basis for work with development in production or production and manufacturing methodology
  • show expertise in the chosen field of technology, including knowledge in mathematics and natural sciences
  • show an understanding of how different variables interact in product realisation

Skills and abilities

  • show good ability, independently and in groups, to identify, formulate and handle technical and organisational problems in machine engineering fields, considering prevailing possibilities and limitations, from idea/need to specification, development, phasing-out, and managing processes for problem-solving/realisation
  • show basic ability to lead people and activities on different organisational levels in multicultural and multi-disciplinary project groups
  • have good ability to utilise modern modelling and simulation methods, and their applications as support for decisions in the professional role
  • show ability to handle and design products, processes and systems based on technical, ethical and economic aspects
  • show knowledge about how the design of products and systems is best adapted to human wishes and needs and with regard to environmental and other societal aspects
  • have abilities in presentation and communication to constitute good preconditions for achieving efficient work, both individually and in groups
  • have individual and professional skills, such as leadership, project management and communication for work as an engineer in a leading position or as a leader in technology-intensive companies

Ability to make judgments and adopt a standpoint

  • have a good understanding that engineering problems often are complex, may not be completely defined and may sometimes contain conflicting conditions
  • show a sense of responsibility and ethics for technical, organisational, economic, ecological and social activities
  • have an understanding of how environmental and cultural differences influence the product realisation process

KTH's local degree ordinance can be found in KTH's regulatory framework. www.kth.se