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MGT6241   Global Challenges: Future, Ethics and Sustainability (I)   (0 credits)

 
Year Running: 2018/2019
Credit level: F7
Pre-requisites for   MGT6242   MGT6242   (when the module is running)
Additional Information   This module is only taught on the Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering Competence

Description

This module introduces a range of issues that impact on manufacturing/engineering organisations, including themes such as sustainability, global political trends and the future of manufacturing/engineering. It integrates learning across the first two modules in the course and provides the framework for the following module - Global Challenges: Future, Ethics and Sustainability (II). It introduces guest lectures from established practitioners and provides formative feedback and supports skills development.

 

Reading List


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Teaching Methods

Delivery Type Hours
Independent 6.0
Lecture 16.0
 

Methods of assessment

Assessment Type Duration % of formal assessment Semester
Course Work 0.0 20 % S2
Other 0.0 80 % S2
 

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