Valid for: 2024/25
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering LTH
Decided by: PLED N
Date of Decision: 2024-04-10
Effective: 2024-05-08
Main field: Technology
Depth of study relative to the degree requirements: First cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Mandatory for: N3
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish
The course's primary aim is to gain knowledge regarding the development of commercial products and processes. The students will learn how to find information in patent databases and learn how patents are written and evaluated. The students will use their engineering skills to prototype an instrument/device/product related to nanoscience.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
The student will evaluate the possibilities and various aspects of commercializing an idea/innovation. The lectures illustrate different issues related to starting up a company, innovation processes, patent issues, and financing. A project will be carried out during the course which will result in two written reports and an oral presentation at a symposium.
The project is performed in groups of four to six students and consists of two parts. The students will make use of their engineering skills in order to produce a nano/micro based prototype of an instrument, device or product.
Project part 1 results in a written report of an analysis of an innovation picked up from running research activities or from a recently published scientific article. The relation between the innovation and three to four related patents is analyzed, as well as the differences between the patents and a related scientific article.
In project 2 the students will enter more deeply into one of the four following subtopics: 1) to write a patent, 2) to make a business plan, 3) to perform a market analysis, 4) to write (popular) science.
Grading scale: UG - (U, G) - (Fail, Pass)
Assessment: Mandatory presence and active participation in lectures, group meeting and, final seminar. Mandatory reports: two sub-projects as part of the larger project. The two sub-projects are reported in writing, and the entire project is presented orally in English at the final seminar. The main report must contain a section describing each group member's contribution to the project.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Modules
Code: 0110. Name: Project Engineering at the Nanoscale.
Credits: 15.0. Grading scale: UG - (U, G).
Assumed prior knowledge:
Compulsory courses of the first two years of the programme Engineering Nanoscience.
The number of participants is limited to: No
Course coordinator: Maria Messing,
maria.messing@ftf.lth.se
Course homepage: http://canvas.education.lu.se