Duration
10h Th, 100h Proj.
Number of credits
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
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
Pitch 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, hybrid learning)
- In person lectures (seminars, presentations during milestones)
- Travail de groupe
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
Any session :
- In-person
oral exam
- Remote
oral exam
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
- Evaluation of the presentation during the 4 milestones. The students write reports on the discussions and the future actions. The reports are evaluated and are accounted for in the final mark. (20%)
- Oral presentation and discussion in front of a jury during the January session. (50%)
- Final report (30%)
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@uliege.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