Product Development & Integrative Technology

Product Development & Integrative Technology is of 3 semesters’ duration (1.5 years) and is a top-up programme that aims to provide students with competencies within product development and/or development of services.

The programme is innovative in the sense that it is the first and only study programme that not only has a professional technical focus on product development but also strives to give students the competencies to actively integrate specialisations from other professions into their work.

 

Entry qualifications

• An AP Degree in Production Technology (only Danish-taught at UCN – University College of Northern Denmark)
• An AP degree in Service Engineering – either HVAC or Electricity & Strong Current (only Danish-taught at UCN – University College of Northern Denmark)
• An AP Degree in IT Network and Electronics Technology 
• An AP Degree in Automation Engineering (only Danish-taught at UCN – University College of Northern Denmark)
• An AP Degree in Energy Technology

Other relevant technical educations may also qualify you for admittance

 

Focus

In addition to the professional fields that you learned about on your AP Degree programme, the Product Development & Integrative Technology programme will also focus on:

 

Philosophy of Science	Product development methods
Design	Project supervision and management
Innovation	Technology development
Sustainability	Environment

 

On this programme, it is of great importance that students work with business related issues during the first phases of a product development cycle from idea to test / “0” series. In practise, some project groups will advance further than others in relation to the product development model.

 

The three specialisations

The Product Development & Integrative Technology programme offers three different fields of study:

• Product development/design & production 
• Installation, automation & energy 
• IT & electronics

The tuition on each specialisation is based on and continues to develop the academic and professional standards that were achieved through the degree that qualified the student for admittance to the programme. To the widest possible extent, we will try to plan lectures in a way that will enable you to follow individual courses on the other two specialisations as well.

Any given week of teaching will typically consist in interdisciplinary instruction, subject specific instruction, interdisciplinary project work and individual studies. Each student will be allocated a process supervisor (interdisciplinary with a specialisation in product development) as well as a specialisation supervisor (who has academic knowledge within your chosen specialisation).

 

Going abroad

During your Bachelor Degree programme in Product Development & Integrative Technology, you will have different opportunities to go abroad. In practise, going abroad during studies means that you will go away on an internship which may take place anywhere in the world.

 

In other words, you can take an active part in shaping your education in Product Development & Integrative Technology the way you like it. The study programme already has contacts with different Danish businesses in Hong Kong.

Learn more about your international possibilities under “Study abroad”.

 

Graduated students

With a Bachelor Degree in Product Development & Integrative Technology, you will be able to take part in product development processes and control and manage them. You should be able to make a decisive contribution to the meaningful integration of several technologies in the development of products and services of a business.

 

Furthermore, you should be able to actively involve end-users in the development phase through user-driven innovation.