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Technology Innovation Project (INFO90010)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)

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AIMS

This subject involves an in-depth investigation into a real-world problem, utilising a Design Thinking approach to identify technology-based solutions to the problem. Students working in groups will be required to perform research, customer and problem discovery, ideation, concept creation and validation, and technical implementation for a real-world challenge. The subject also provides students with skills and knowledge for improving written and oral communication.

INDICATIVE CONTENT

Indicative content includes design thinking methodology, customer & problem discovery, design ideation, development of innovative technology prototypes, and innovation presentations. 

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  • Work independently as part of an interdisciplinary team to complete a technical innovation project
  • Collect and critically analyse a range of data about people and their problems, and create innovative technology design ideas from this data
  • Apply human-centred and design thinking approaches to identify and evaluate design ideas
  • Conceptualise, design, and implement an innovative and technology-based solution to the identified problem
  • Present technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders in both written and oral forms

Generic skills

  • Be able to undertake customer & problem discovering, problem formulation and solution
  • Have a capacity for independent critical thought, innovative inquiry and self‐directed learning
  • Have a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of scholarship
  • Be able to present work in written form; and
  • Be able to present work orally and answer questions about it

Last updated: 8 November 2024