MG2117 Production, Business and Management 15.0 credits
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Application
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Autumn 2024 Start 26 Aug 2024 programme students
Application code
50564
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
The course is carried out in project form.
The projects are carried out as a cooperation between KTH and companies that are the employers of the projects. The emphasis for the projects lies within the production engineering field, i.e. is mainly of technical character, but it also contains important aspects of business and management.
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- apply knowledge and skills from earlier courses and acquire new knowledge when necessary
- identify, compare and critically assess aspects of a complex production engineering related problem that requires knowledge within production, business and management for its solution
- apply models and practical methods for preparing and suggesting a solution to a complex production engineering related problem that requires knowledge within production, business and management for its solution, considering relevant scientific, social, ethical and sustainability aspects
- organise, handle and lead a complex project that runs over a long period of time, in collaboration with employers and project members
- present the work both in writing and orally, in a scientific and convincing way
- argument for the chosen working methods and the reliability of the results when they are exposed to criticism, and give constructive criticism to an equivalent project task
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
MG1001, MG1006, MG1016, MG1026 or MG2104 and
MG1002, MG2020 or MG2040, MG2028 & MG2029
or the equivalent
Recommended prerequisites
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Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- PRO1 - Project Assignment, 15.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, 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.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- 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.
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Supplementary information
The course replaces MG2015 from autumn term 2015.