The students are expected to work actively and independently with the course material as well as to reflect on their own ethical positions and that of others.
Lectures and exercises support the students in their knowledge acquisition and development of skills.
ML1108 Decision Models and Impact Assessment 7.5 credits
Information per course offering
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Information for Autumn 2025 Start 25 Aug 2025 programme students
- Course location
KTH Campus
- Duration
- 25 Aug 2025 - 24 Oct 2025
- Periods
- P1 (7.5 hp)
- Pace of study
50%
- Application code
51802
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
Swedish
- Course memo
- Course memo is not published
- Number of places
Places are not limited
- Target group
- No information inserted
- Planned modular schedule
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- Schedule
- Schedule is not published
Contact
Course syllabus as PDF
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Course syllabus ML1108 (Autumn 2023–)Headings with content from the Course syllabus ML1108 (Autumn 2023–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )
Content and learning outcomes
Course disposition
Course contents
- Decision models, among other QFD (Quality Function Deployment), Pugh, FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) and Kesselring
- Introduction to ethics/moral philosophy
- Introduction to gender equality and equality of treatment, connected to design and product development
- Current regulatory frameworks and control documents for sustainable development relevant for production and product development
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- Choose and use decision models for production and design from given preconditions
- Produce relevant criteria and make consistent decisions for production and design of a product
- Account for current regulatory frameworks and control documents for sustainable development relevant for production and product development
- Illustrate and discuss current challenges connected to sustainable development in production and product development
- Argue for an ethical position about sustainability and the engineering role from different perspectives
- Discuss a product's/design's expression based on the societal norms regarding JML (gender equality, diversity and equality of treatment)
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
No information inserted
Literature
You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- INL1 - Assignment, 1.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- KON1 - Test, 1.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- TEN1 - Written examination, 4.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- ÖVN1 - Exercises, 1.5 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.
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.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.
Offered by
Main field of study
Technology
Education cycle
First cycle