Innovation project in automotive engineering

Duration

20h Th, 80h Proj., 1d FW

Number of credits

Lecturer

Olivier Bruls, Georges de Pelsemaeker, Grigorios Dimitriadis, Pierre Duysinx, Vincent Lemort

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Innovation is a fundamental engine of perrenity of entreprises. Innovation can have a technological or marketing nature, but its characteristics is to always be oriented towards the satisfaction of customers' need should it be explicit or implicit. The course aims at developing students ability to carry out an innovation approach.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

• Understand the innovation concept
• Identify innovation needs of customers
• Define target setting
• Validate the innovative concept
• Validate the innovative concept

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

• Integrated Projects (all disciplines)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Seminars introducing the innovation concepts and the process of development of innovation in industrial context (Prof. G De Pelsemaeker)
Project based learning: development of an innovative concept in the framework of an international contest (for instance Valeo Innovation project, Henkel, Rolex, Airbus competitions...)
Four milestones during which students have to present the project progress in font of the class:

• Phase 0: Subject selection
• Phase 1: Target seeting
• Phase 2: Conception validation
• Phase 3: Definition and validation
• Final presentation (exam)

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

• In person lectures (seminars, presentations during milestones)
• Travail de groupe

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

• Evaluation during the

Work placement(s)

None

Organizational remarks

Organized as seminars during first semester.

Contacts

Pierre Duysinx, LTAS - Automotive Engineering Institute of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, Building B52 Allée de la Découverte 13A, 4000 Liège Phone : +32 4 366 9194, Fax : +32 4 366 9159, Email: P.Duysinx@ulg.ac.be
Prof. Dr. G. de Pelsemaeker Research & Innovation Director R744 Program and R&D Director Thermal Systems Business Group Phone: +33 6 03 64 65 40 Email: georges.de-pelsemaeker@valeo.com