HH1901 Engineering Practice and Development 7.5 credits

• Developing social and emotional competence
• Group dynamics and team building
• Process concepts and project management
• Conflict treating, communication, ethic and moral
• Social responsibility, orientation of the surrounding world, building net works and mentorship
• Communication
• The engineer’s function in society, earlier, now and in the future

The aim of the course is to, in a wide sense, inform and prepare students for different situation at work. Focus is on general issues.

After completing this course students are to:

• understand the importance of personal and professional development in different fields of technique
• have been stimulated to see future possibilities within business and technique
• have a good ability to understand the user´s point of view
• have got further training in writing, presentation technique and reflection of future work
• be able to transform human needs of goods, services and systems to concepts of engineering
• be able to understand the own responsibility at work, and be able to put up aims and sub aims for work and personal development

Knowledge and skills corresponding to the requirements for acceptance to the engineering education

Nilsson, Björn: Samspel i grupp, Studentlitteratur, ISBN 91-44-04354-6

• ÖVN1 - Exercises, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• ÖVN2 - Exercises, 4.5 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Compulsory participation in lectures and seminars. Compulsory participation in exercise sessions
(ÖVN1; 3 cr.) credit rate P/F
Passed seminar papers and reports
(ÖVN2; 4,5 cr.) credit rate P/F
In total credit rate P/F.

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

In the course theory and practice is mixed and some part of this course interact with other courses. The students mix lectures with visits to work sites at companies and contacts with mentors. Through exercises and seminars they have, as the final report, to produce "their own course literature"