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Postgraduate Programme in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering (Sint-Katelijne-Waver et al)

KU Leuven – Faculty of Engineering Technology

Postgraduate

In Leuven ()

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Duration

    Flexible

This programme is targeted towards students who want to deepen their technical knowledge and skills, but also want to further develop their personal innovation and entrepreneurial competencies. You are interested in innovation and would like to gain experience in the development and implementation of innovative projects in an organization or team. You are a doer who is keen to accept the challenge of designing and implementing a product that works.

About this course

The purpose of this programme is to teach students the necessary skills to take on innovative and entrepreneurial responsibilities in the field.

Students, as well as people in the industry, experience an extra demand for communicative skills, project skills, work ethic, practical thinking and problem solving skills, negotiating skills and relations with customers and suppliers. Furthermore, there is an increasing demand for technical knowledge, although it is acknowledged by the industry that the root of the problem is located elsewhere. Namely, it relates to a type of company-specific technical knowledge that is notoriously hard to acquire at school. Moreover, work ethic and communication skills are additional aspects that often require improvement in graduates. This postgraduate programme seeks to address and improve those aspects and skills through the combination of an innovation project and a complementary curriculum.

Secondly, students often wish to gain a better overview of future career and growth options. During the innovation project, they come into contact with a number of responsibilities, positions and functions, allowing them to explore their strengths and weaknesses within the context of a real-life work environment. Eventually, their experience in the field will help them make the right career choices after graduation. It may also let them enter the job market at a higher level and grow at an accelerated pace.

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Subjects

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation
  • Project
  • Engineering
  • Team Training
  • Organisation
  • Professional Skills
  • Team Project
  • Entrepreneurial
  • Entrepreneurial manner

Course programme

Work experience, social and professional skills have never been more important for engineers. The interuniversity Postgraduate Programme in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering will help to strengthen your profile and create career opportunities. The postgraduate programme consists of 60 credits, 40 of which are comprised in the innovation project and a minimum of 20 credits are available for additional courses.

The focus of the programme is on innovation and implementation in an entrepreneurial manner. The programme offers a unique and hands-on introduction to the job market and the industry. Through the innovation project and a customised curriculum designed to meet your personal needs, you will develop your technical, entrepreneurial and innovation skills. All of this will take place under the intensive personal coaching of professionals in the field and academic experts. Completion of the programme will allow you to enter the job market at a higher level and grow at an accelerated pace.

Through an innovation project, either within a company (in-company project) or as an independent entrepreneur (team project or start-up project), you will learn how to implement creative and innovative concepts and ideas.

There are three types of projects:

- An in-company project
An in-company project is carried out by one or two students within an organisation. You can select a project from the online database, but you can also propose a company project.

Students with special interest in community service engineering can choose for a company project within the social profict sector. Students interested in management skills can choose a project focused on the domain of technology management.

- A team project
During a team project you work intensively on an innovative project on campus, together with a group of students and in collaboration with various enterprises and organisations.


- A start-up project
Alternatively, within the framework of a start-up project, students have the option of writing a business plan around their own, with a view to starting their own company.

"Make things work" is the central philosophy behind the projects. Each project is organized in a way that will let you design and produce a tangible and functional product within the structure of a company or team.

A number of deepening technical courses, compatible with the assignment of the innovation project of your choice, allow you to specialize in a specific technical domain. The educational programme also includes broadening courses to sharpen entrepreneurial and innovative skills, such as communication, project management, leadership, negotiating, innovation management or group dynamics.

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Postgraduate Programme in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering (Sint-Katelijne-Waver et al)

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