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MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.
Identify opportunities for both disruptive and incremental innovation;
2.
Develop attitudes and create environments that are conducive to generating ideas for solving complex problems;
3.
Develop and apply a systematic approach to problem solving, creative thinking, and innovation;
4.
Exploit diversity within a team to create innovative ideas, services, processes or products that meet user-defined needs within constraints set by users and producers;
5.
Understand the importance of ethical behaviour by engineers towards clients and the community at large.

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Additional information

Unit content:· Innovation as creative destruction – incremental and disruptive innovations · Sources of innovation – new perspectives and new knowledge; identifying opportunities; jobs to be done · Creative Problems Solving – fact finding; idea finding; solution finding · Research and research writing – evaluating sources; academic referencing · Complex systems – how ideas emerge · Diversity – perspectives and heuristics toolboxes; creative teams – diversity trumps ability · Engineering Ethics · Engineering portfolios and reflective practice