Undergraduate - UnitMON2801 - Leadership and innovation

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Engineering
Offered	Malaysia First semester 2015 (Day) Malaysia Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Khoo Boon How

Synopsis

In this unit, leadership related aspects such as strategic thinking, building self-awareness, leading in teams, negotiation, effective communication and conflict resolution will be discussed. Then, leadership skills will be linked to innovation and product development. Useful technological tools that can be used for product development will be introduced. Finally, this unit will also explore the process of product commercialization in both local and international settings.

Outcomes

This unit aims to link leadership skills to product innovation and explore the product development and commercialization process. At the end of this unit, students should be able to:

analyze the characteristic of a leader
communicate effectively, work in teams and develop negotiation skills
design products with commercialization potentials and impact on the local community
evaluate product innovation options and identify support for them locally and internationally

Assessment

Continuous assessment: 70%
Examination (2 hours): 30%

Students are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component and at least 45% in the final examination component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve a pass grade in the unit. Students failing to achieve this requirement will be given a maximum of 45% in the unit.

Workload requirements

3 hours lectures, 3 hours tutorial or laboratory and 6 hours of private study per week

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Rajendran Parthiban