Course content
Intended learning outcome:
Students
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- can discuss future trends in production, such as digitalisation in production, urban production or the sustainable design of production systems.
- learn to derive research questions based on future trends in production.
- design a fictitious scientific publication based on future trends in production
- can describe and apply the process of a review.
- can present and argue their elaborated results within the frame of a fictitious conference situation using appropriate methodological skills.
- can apply methodological skills, such as time and project management.
- develop social skills through self-organised group work.
- develop self competences (e.g. time management).
Module content:
- Manufacturing is experiencing constant change under the influence of various trends and dissemination of innovative technologies
- Awareness is rising of the importance of concepts for sustainable production and social changes (e.g. demographic change, urbanisation)
- The seminar fosters the inderstanding of the necessary changes of future production systems
- It aims at an interdisciplinary understanding of factories and production systems and the handling of conflicting goals
- Important skills, such as group work, presentation techniques and scientific writing, presentation and discussion in technical English, are imparted in the seminar
