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ME52047: Creativity for innovation

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 200
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CWPG 30%, CWRI 50%, CWVV 20%
Assessment Detail:
  • Innovative Practice Portfolio (CWPG 30%)
  • Innovative Practice Report (CWRI 50%)
  • Innovative Practice Viva (CWVV 20%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes:
* Discuss, analyse, and critique individual and collaborative creative processes and methods from theory and practice
* Develop, apply, and reflect on effective creative habits in your practice
* Identify appropriate opportunities for creativity as a vehicle for innovation
* Generate, and critically evaluate, innovative creative concepts


Synopsis: Identifying potential for meaningful innovative interventions requires both creativity and rigorous evaluation. You will experience individual and team-based creative processes. Methodology is drawn from practice and theory, and the unit offers a combination of hands-on and theoretical elements.

Content:
* Identifying, developing, and evaluating potential for creative and meaningful innovative interventions
* Individual and team-based creative processes
* Creative practice and theory

Course availability:

ME52047 is Compulsory on the following courses:

School of Management

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