Future Production, 7.5 credits

The doctoral student shall, after completing this course, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• important paradigms in production technology, both in the subject as a whole as well as within specific aspects of the subject
• the state of the art within production technology
• roadmaps within relevant areas of production technology
• methods to predict or foresee changes and shifts in technology in production technology

The doctoral student shall demonstrate the ability:

• to identify and analyse current research in production technology
• to analyse trends and preconditions for change in paradigms and technology
• to perform gap analysis
• to document and present State of the art, including analysis and reflection based on work in research

The doctoral student shall demonstrate knowledge of the way to approach:

• the relevance of previous research to the student’s own research subject
• other researchers’ work in relation to the student’s own work