ENN519 Entrepreneurship and Applications
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| Unit code: | ENN519 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,672 |
| International unit fee | $5,040 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | ENN519 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EGH437. May be completed before or concurrently with ENN519 |
| Coordinator: | Fernando Vanegas Alvarez | f.vanegasalvarez@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit introduces you to advanced design practice and fundamental entrepreneurial concepts. The unit combines skills in robotics with entrepreneurship. You will work in a team and apply your new knowledge in entrepreneurship to devise an idea for a robotic artefact or system that solves a customer’s problem or satisfies a demand in the market.
You will learn to think about a business case for your idea, identify potential customers, and analyse the market situation. In your team, you will apply Robotics, AI and advanced design methods to evaluate your product or service idea based on its technology feasibility, desirability, and commercial viability. You will heavily draw on the project management and team skills learned as an engineer.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify a problem that can be solved by applying advanced knowledge in Robotics and AI to design a complex robotic system using appropriate information, engineering methods, and technologies.
- Demonstrate introductory knowledge of key entrepreneurial concepts to create a business plan, designed to market a complex robotic product or service to potential customers considering ethical, sustainable, and socially responsible aspects.
- Compose a professional business and product development plan with supporting documentation that describes, quantitatively evaluates, and defends a complex robotic product's technological feasibility, customer desirability, and business viability at a mastered level.
- Demonstrate leadership, creativity, and initiative in both self-directed and collaborative contexts of professional engineering practice, utilising systematic approaches to plan, design and manage a project to develop a robotic and AI product.
- Engage stakeholders or potential customers in a professional context and effectively communicate your design concept, value proposition and expected outcome in oral and written forms.
Content
Interactive lectures will concentrate on entrepreneurial content:
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- The Ideation Process and the Systems Engineering approach
- Financial analysis, Customer needs, Conops and System requirements
- Innovation methods, Intelectual Property, Patenst, System architecture, Interfaces, and Trade studies
- Minimum viable product, Value theory, Budgets, Preliminary design, Verification and Validation
- Marketing strategies, pitching skills, Entrepreneurship Programs and Funding opportunities
- Risk analysis, sustainability, Maintenance, sales support, Laws and regulations
Learning Approaches
You can expect the following timetabled activities in this unit:
- Lectures by highly experienced entrepreneurs introduce you to fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship.
- Laboratory: The team project requires the design, implementation, and documentation of a product prototype that incorporates various mechatronics techniques. The project runs over the entire semester and culminates in a demonstration of the prototype at the end of the unit. The teaching team will assist you but expect that you are highly collaborative and self-sufficiently able to apply the knowledge previously gained.
In addition to these timetabled activities, you are expected to self-organise your work in your team, hold regular team meetings, apply your knowledge of agile project management techniques, document your progress in all stages of the project, conduct experiments and evaluation of your prototype, as well as prepare reports, demonstrations and presentations.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback will be given regularly throughout the semester by tutors and lecturers, following your oral and written presentations of project ideas, plan, design, execution and progress early, mid-semester and at the end of the semester. Tutors and lecturers are available for feedback and advice in the lab sessions.
In addition, you are encouraged to view your team and other teams as a learning community and share and constructively discuss emerging ideas during all phases of the project.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit will be based on a semester-long team project. As a team and individually, you will be assessed on a mix of written formal reports, a product pitch demonstration and practical prototype demonstrations.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Ideation, product pitch and demo
Produce a video presenting the entrepreneurial aspects of your project idea, such as value proposition, customer segment and market analysis, customer analysis, literature and patent research, along with a proposed project management plan.
In week 13 the group gives and oral presentation pitching their product by a demo to describe and defend the business plan before a panel. Each student presents their contribution.
Assessment: Business plan proposal
Students working in groups submit their progress on the Business plan. Each student is assigned a role. They work on a section of the business plan proposal and merge it to create a single doc for submission.
The business plan document should contain the following sections: Business opportunity analysis, Engineering design, Financial and Market analysis, Risk analysis, and Strategy.
The assessment has a 15% Group component and a 15% individual component.
Assessment: Final business plan and peer evaluation
Students working in groups submit their Business plan. Each student is assigned a role. They work on a section of the business plan proposal and merge it to create a single submission document.
The business plan document must contain two main sections: 1) Business Opportunity Analysis, and 2) Technical design and implementation of your robotic system. Each section weighs 15% of the total mark. The marks are split into 50% component and 50% individual contribution.
The students will also submit an evaluation of their peers in the group. This is an individual assessment and it is worth 10% of the total mark
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
To build your prototype, you can order the necessary components, within a specified budget. This may include motors, sensors, microcontrollers, PCBs and general electronics, as well as other needed materials.
You have access to lab spaces and workshops at QUT and can use a range of tools after receiving an induction.
Learning material in this unit will be managed from its LMS site
Risk Assessment Statement
You will undertake lectures and tutorials in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.
You will be required to undertake practical sessions in the laboratory under the supervision of the lecturer and technical staff of the School. In any laboratory practicals you will be advised of requirements of safe and responsible behaviour and will be required to wear appropriate protective items (e.g. closed shoes).
You will undergo a health and safety induction before the commencement of the practical sessions and will be issued with a safety induction card. If you do not have a safety induction card you will be denied access to laboratories.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN52 Master of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts and practices in Robotics and AI
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Critically analyse, evaluate and apply appropriate methods to Robotics and AI problems to achieve research-informed solutions
Relates to: Final business plan and peer evaluation - Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage projects in Robotics and AI
Relates to: Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Communicate complex information effectively and succinctly in oral and written form for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Work independently and collaboratively demonstrating ethical and socially responsible practice
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation
EN62 Graduate Certificate in Robotics
- Demonstrate and apply advanced discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Robotics
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Analyse and evaluate Robotics problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
Relates to: Final business plan and peer evaluation - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Robotics in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Effectively communicate Robotics problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation
EN72 Master of Advanced Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts and practices in Advanced Robotics and AI and Data Analytics domains
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Critically analyse, evaluate and apply appropriate methods to problems to achieve research-informed solutions in Advanced Robotics and AI and Data Analytics domains
Relates to: Final business plan and peer evaluation - Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage projects in Advanced Robotics and AI and Data Analytics domains
Relates to: Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Communicate complex information effectively and succinctly in oral and written form for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Work independently and collaboratively demonstrating ethical and socially responsible practice
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation
EN79 Graduate Diploma in Engineering Studies
- Demonstrate and apply advanced discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary Engineering practice
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Analyse and evaluate Engineering problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
Relates to: Final business plan and peer evaluation - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage Engineering projects in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Effectively communicate Engineering problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation - Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
Relates to: Ideation, product pitch and demo, Business plan proposal, Final business plan and peer evaluation
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | ENN519 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
The unit combines mechatronics engineering with entrepreneurship. It introduces you to fundamental entrepreneurial concepts and skills.
You will work in a team and apply your new knowledge in entrepreneurship to devise an idea for a robotic device that solves a problem for a client. You will identify and understand technical and non-technical client needs, with awareness of indigenous perspectives and the ethics of robots in society. You will learn how to think about a business case for your idea, identify potential customers and analyse the market situation.
In your team, you will design, build and demonstrate a functioning prototype of your product idea. This lets you demonstrate your advanced robotics engineering knowledge: you will individually design, create, and evaluate a subsystem, using your in-depth engineering knowledge and information from the engineering literature.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Invent, develop, design, and demonstrate a complex mechatronic system in collaboration with a team, at a mastered level.
- Create a product pitch and formal report that both analyse and distill the entrepreneurial aspects of a complex mechatronics product at an introduced level.
- Articulate and explain your concept to potential clients and distill and critically evaluate their needs and feedback at an introduced level.
- Write a formal report that describes, quantitatively evaluates, and defends technological aspects of a complex mechatronics product at a mastered level.
- Use recognised project development and management techniques self- sufficiently at a mastered level.
- Individually design, create, and evaluate a sub-system of a bigger complex mechatronic system, using in-depth engineering knowledge and extracted information from the engineering literature at a mastered level.
Content
Interactive lectures will concentrate on entrepreneurial content:
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- The Ideation Process -- Where do good ideas come from?
- Validation of Concepts and Insights
- Lean Startup 101, The Lean Canvas Model
- How to Pitch Startup Ideas
- Teams and Team Formation, Workow Management
- Startup Pathways and Programs at QUT and Brisbane
Learning Approaches
You can expect the following timetabled activities in this unit:
- Lectures by highly experienced entrepreneurs introduce you to fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship.
- Laboratory: The team project requires the design, implementation, and documentation of a product prototype that incorporates various mechatronics techniques. The project runs over the entire semester and culminates in a demonstration of the prototype at the end of the unit. The teaching team will assist you but expect that you are highly collaborative and self-sufficiently able to apply the knowledge previously gained.
In addition to these timetabled activities, you are expected to self-organise your work in your team, hold regular team meetings, apply your knowledge of agile project management techniques, document your progress in all stages of the project, conduct experiments and evaluation of your prototype, as well as prepare reports, demonstrations and presentations.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback will be given regularly throughout the semester by tutors and lecturers, following your oral and written presentations of project ideas, plan, design, execution and progress early, mid-semester and at the end of the semester. Tutors and lecturers are available for feedback and advice in the lab sessions.
In addition, you are encouraged to view your team and other teams as a learning community and share and constructively discuss emerging ideas during all phases of the project.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit will be based on a semester-long team project. As a team and individually, you will be assessed on a mix of written formal reports, a product pitch demonstration and practical prototype demonstrations.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Project Pitch and Proposal Report
Your Product Pitch and Project Proposal Report will communicate entrepreneurial aspects of your project idea, such as value proposition, customer segment and market analysis, customer analysis, literature and patent research, as well as prototype scope, requirements and specifications, and a project plan and budget.
Assessment: Prototype Progress Demonstration
Individually, you will demonstrate the progress you made with the design and development of the component you are responsible for, including its key functionality, mid-semester. As a group, you will demonstrate the final prototype at the end of the semester.
Both demonstrations focus on the technical implementation and design choices, the engineering design process, as well as evaluation and test procedures, and contain a retrospective and reflection on design choices, lessons learned, setbacks and mistakes.
Assessment: Final Project Report
This final report documents your work and the progress on the prototype you and your team made during the semester.
In the report, you can demonstrate your expertise in robotics engineering by describing the technical design and implementation of your component, along with a documentation of experiments and evaluation you undertook to verify the functionality and performance of your component.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
To build your prototype, you can order the necessary components, within a specified budget. This may include motors, sensors, microcontrollers, PCBs and general electronics, as well as other needed materials.
You have access to lab spaces and workshops at QUT and can use a range of tools after receiving an induction.
Learning material in this unit will be managed from its LMS site
Risk Assessment Statement
You will undertake lectures and tutorials in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.
You will be required to undertake practical sessions in the laboratory under the supervision of the lecturer and technical staff of the School. In any laboratory practicals you will be advised of requirements of safe and responsible behaviour and will be required to wear appropriate protective items (e.g. closed shoes).
You will undergo a health and safety induction before the commencement of the practical sessions and will be issued with a safety induction card. If you do not have a safety induction card you will be denied access to laboratories.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EN52 Master of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Demonstrate and apply advanced and specialist discipline knowledge, concepts and practices in Robotics and AI
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Critically analyse, evaluate and apply appropriate methods to Robotics and AI problems to achieve research-informed solutions
Relates to: Final Project Report - Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage projects in Robotics and AI
Relates to: Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Communicate complex information effectively and succinctly in oral and written form for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Work independently and collaboratively demonstrating ethical and socially responsible practice
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report
EN62 Graduate Certificate in Robotics
- Demonstrate and apply advanced discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary practice in Robotics
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Analyse and evaluate Robotics problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
Relates to: Final Project Report - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage projects in Robotics in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Effectively communicate Robotics problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report
EN79 Graduate Diploma in Engineering Studies
- Demonstrate and apply advanced discipline knowledge, concepts and practices as they relate to contemporary Engineering practice
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Analyse and evaluate Engineering problems using technical approaches informed by contemporary practice and leading edge research to achieve innovative, critically informed solutions
Relates to: Final Project Report - Apply innovative, systematic approaches to plan, design, deliver and manage Engineering projects in a way that assures sustainable outcomes over their whole lifecycle
Relates to: Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Effectively communicate Engineering problems, related complex data and information, and solutions in contemporary professional formats for diverse purposes and audiences
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report - Demonstrate ethically and socially responsible practice, recognising the importance of personal accountability and reflective practice when working in individual and collaborative modes
Relates to: Project Pitch and Proposal Report, Prototype Progress Demonstration, Final Project Report