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Special topic in engineering management
This course inspires and enables discovery and realisation of effective change toward carbon emissions downshift in a variety of organisational contexts (engineering, education, business, government, non-profit organisation, and community). The course explores new quantitative understanding of the climate and resource challenges (energy, materials usage, etc) caused by unsustainable growth, by applying a mix of theory, storytelling and examples. The course guides you to advance your related capabilities, competencies, and strategies. The personal, interpersonal, organisational, and infrastructural dimensions of change leadership for energy and resource transition are addressed.The course is delivered online, with approximately 18 hours of lectures (6 modules with 3 lectures per module). There are short assignments associated with each module, with answers to the assignments submitted in a quiz. There is an independent project.Optional discussions are conducted online (or face-to-face depending on enrolment numbers) most weeks throughout the course to broaden student’s understanding of the material. Discussions are a mix of tutor led and student led and provide a forum to discuss the modules and assignment work or relevant current events. Later in the course, workshops are held to help students to pick a project and to prepare for their final presentation.
Learning outcomes include working knowledge of the Interdisciplinary Transition Innovation, Management and Engineering (InTIME©) Methodology and key strategic analysis tools. You will gain confidence in the face of what seem like entrenched positions and impossible problems. By the end of the course, you and your organisation will be much more prepared to discover opportunities for transition and to adapt to the future trends in energy and economic downshift.More precisely, by the end of the course you will:Understand the role of engineers in the changing worldBe able to identify key sustainability principles and understand the relationship with exponential growthDevelop competence in generating and presenting energy data in graphs and figuresApply InTIME© methodology to ‘wicked’ problems
Subject to the approval of the Programme Director
The following is an indication of the timing of the course:• Module quizzes/Assignments Module1-4 due Week 2/3/4/5• Module 5 & 6 quizzes due Week 7/8• InTIME Project due Wednesday 9th November (Week 11 Study Week)
Sharee McNab
The lecturer for online content is Professor Susan Krumdieck.
InTIME ProjectYou will apply your new skills and the InTIME© methodology to a ‘wicked’ problem - locally relevant for you! You will submit slides and present your project in front of students and the tutor.
Krumdieck, Susan; Transition engineering : building a sustainable future ; CRC Press, 2019 (Text book provided with your enrolment).
This course is based on the best-selling book Transition Engineering, Building a Sustainable Future, (2019) Susan Krumdieck, CRC Press. The text book is provided with your enrolment in EMGT607.
The course consists of 6 modulesAssessment: Lecture Quizzes 54% (3% each, 3 short quizzes per module)Assignment Quizzes 20% (5% each for module 1-4)Project: Oral presentation 26% (13% slides, 13% presentation)
Domestic fee $1,133.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .