Product Development and Integrative Technology

Top Up (Bachelor Degree) | 1½ year (90 ECTS) | Application 15 March or 1 July | Download curriculum

Look into the future and challenge existing boundaries. This programme is relevant for both danish and international students.

Would you like to play a role when businesses develop new products or implement new technologies in production? With a BA in Product Development & Integrative Technology, your job will be to look to the future and to challenge existing solutions. At the same time, you must be able to argue in favour of your choices, and help to successfully manage processes from idea to finished product.

In the programme, you learn to apply your professional expertise, and you learn to interact with other disciplines to address and resolve issues and problems in the best possible way. Both you and your fellow students have earned Academic Professional diplomas from business academies, and together you must integrate your various backgrounds and expertise into your project work during the programme.

The focus of the teaching activities are on problem-oriented project work and on the learning to be achieved through your work with concrete problems and issues defined by you and your fellow students, or which you have defined in cooperation with a company.

The programme provides you with analytical, methodological and practical skills that enable you to integrate and manage product development processes in technical fields. Products developed in this program may be physical products, concepts or technical services.

After completing the programme, you will find yor professional niche at the nexus point of overlapping fields of expertise involved in developing new products, and you will stand out as the one with the skills to communicate, present and integrate the different fields of expertise in various product development activities, ultimately resulting in the an optimum and future-proof product for consumers and users.

The BA programme in Product Development & Integrative Technology is a top-up programme for the academy profession educational programmes within installation, automation, energy, product development/production and IT Network/Electronics.

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Programme content and structure

The BA programme in Product Development & Integrative Technology is a top-up programme for various academy profession programmes and therefore only takes 1½ years to complete (90 ECTS).

During the first two semesters (5th and 6th semesters), you are introduced to the theory of the discipline and learn about necessary methods and tools etc., for example, in connection with ideation and project management. During the last semester (7th semester), you will take an internship and write your bachelor project.

As a student in the programme, you must complete the following obligatory elements:

Theoretical Product Development
Professional Product Development and Design
Interdisciplinary Product Development and Design
Sustainability in Product Development

The obligatory elements are largely based on project work, and as part of the teaching activities, you and your fellow students will learn more about technological project work, theory of science and methods as well as integrative technology.

Specialisations

A small part of the study programme is divided into three specialisations, depending on your qualifying academy profession programme:

Development of products and production – for AP graduates in Production Technology
Automation and installation – for AP graduates in Automation Engineering, Energy Technology or Service Engineering (Plumbing Technology and High-voltage Technology)
IT/electronics – for AP graduates in IT Technology

On the individual specialisations, targeted teaching will be offered about innovation and product development, and you will be introduced to construction and planning of projects as well as environmental issues and sustainability.

Internship

During the 7th semester, you will find an internship. The internship period is ten weeks (corresponding to 15 ECTS points) and takes place in a relevant company, where you can try out everything you have learned in the programme. You can take your internship at an industrial company, a small or medium-sized design agency, a firm of architects etc.

Your internship adviosr at KEA will help you with any practical questions concerning your internship with a host company which you must find yourself.

Bachelor project

For the bachelor project, you will use the analytical and methodological skills you have acquired during your studies to work with a complex issue. You must demonstrate that you can manage a project, integrate and coordinate the technical, creative and financial aspects of a development process, and communicate and present the project to relevant stakeholders.

More information

If you want to know more in details about the programme and the elements, you can read more in the curriculum.

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Study form

The teaching activities are organised in such a way that the teaching methods underpin the disciplinary content being worked on.

The teaching activities include:

Lectures
Classroom instruction, problem-based learning, case work and project work with presentation and opponent activities
Guidance in connection with individual and joint assignments, e.g. in connection with project work
Reading groups, study groups and workshops

How will you study?

In the BA in Product Development & Integrative Technology programme, you are encouraged to think in new, innovative way. The study programme involves in-depth study of a combination of theory and practice and ensures that you can always present very clear, well founded arguments in favour of your choices.

You are provided with the skills needed to manage the process from idea to finished product in a visionary manner. You learn a broad range of the latest methods. These methods will help you to focus on a problem or issue and identify the innovative parameters pertaining to it.

Process and methodology

You will, among other things, analyse and map the problems and issues that interest you

This could also be through user observation. How do people interact with a given product, and what are their needs and challenges?

This could also be, through collecting market knowledge. What does the market for a specific product type look like?

We often work with concrete cases and problems presented by the companies that we work with.

Career and future

Having completed the BA programme in Product Development & Integrative Technology, you can pursue a career in many different types of businesses.

Your forte will be your ability to work in an interdisciplinary way, and you will often gradually move towards a role as coordinator, project manager, consultant or technical manager.

Further education

With a BA in Product Development & Integrative Technology, you may be eligible to take a Master's degree programme.

You can contact the Study and Career Advisors if you have questions about the Danish Education System.

Admission

Admission requirements
The following AP degree programmes qualify for admission:
- Service Engineering
- Power Current Engineering
- Energy Technology
- Automations Technology
- IT Technology
- Production Technology and other relevant AP degrees
A small part of the education is divided in 3 separate programmes depending on your qualifying AP:
- Development of products and production (AP Graduate in Production Technology)
- Automation and Service Engineering (AP Graduate in Service Engineering, automation and energy technology)
- IT Network and Electronics Technology (AP Graduate in IT Technology)
In order for the 3 separate programmes to be formed, there have to be enough applicants with the above mentioned qualifications.
Language requirements

All applicants must have passed English at a level equivalent to a Danish Upper Secondary education B-level.

If you're applying with a Danish-taught AP degree, you have to include documentation for your English B level.

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Application fee

Non-EU applicants are required to pay an application fee in order for KEA to process their application.

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Admission with special permission

If you do not meet the formal admission requirements, you can apply for admission with special permission based on an individual competency assessment (IKV).

Guidelines for applying for an IKV

IKV-application form

Application

How to apply
You must apply via this application form. Remember to submit all your documentation with the application.

A small part of the education is divided in 3 separate programmes depending on your qualifying AP:
- Development of products and production (AP Graduate in Production Technology)
- Automation and Service Engineering (AP Graduate in Service Engineering, automation and energy technology)
- IT Network and Electronics Technology (AP Graduate in IT Technology)
In order for the 3 separate programmes to be formed, there have to be enough applicants with the above mentioned qualifications.

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Read more about the application process
Application deadline

All applicants can apply from 1 February.

Danish / EU / EAA students with a relevant Danish AP degree

The application deadline for all Danish / EU / EAA students with a relevant Danish AP degree is 1 July at 12:00 noon CET. You’ll get the final admission answer on 6 July.

EU/EAA students without a Danish AP degree

The application deadline for EU/EAA students without a Danish AP degree is 15 March at 12:00 noon CET. You’ll get the final admission answer in June.

non-EU citizens

The application deadline for non-EU citizens is 15 March at 12:00 noon CET. You’ll get the final admission answer in May.

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Limitations

Beginning summer 2017 you can no longer be admitted to one of KEA's full time higher education programmes if you already have a Danish degree at the same or a higher level.

Applicants with foreign degrees only are not affected by this.

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Entrance Grade Point Average

All admitted (2017)

Read more about the application process, tuition fees, transfer to KEA etc. on the page Application and admission.

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Contact

Questions about application and admission

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You can call us on weekdays from 9am-3pm (GMT +1).

Questions about programme choice, courses and career

Contact the Study and Career Advisor:

Per Gad-Hansen

Study & Career Advisor

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You can reach Per on phone Monday-Friday.

General information

Language

The programme is offered in English.
Address

Classes take place at:

Campus Guldbergsgade
Guldbergsgade 29N
2200 København N
Denmark

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Programme start

The programme commences in end August.

If you are accepted to the programme you will get more information including the precise date.
Finance
The programme is entitled to the state education support (SU) for Danish citizens. Read more at www.su.dk

Tuition fee terms 2016:
- Nordic/EU/EEA students are free of charge
- Non-EU citizens must pay a tuition fee of € 5,600 per semester
There is no fee for following students:
- Students from the European Union (EU)
- Students from EEA countries (Norway, Liechtenstein, Iceland)
- Students from Switzerland
- Students who are granted permanent residency or time-limited permit with the possibility of permanent residence in Denmark
- Students exchanged with Danish students as part of a bilateral agreement with an educational institution abroad
- Students who are granted residence permit under §9c, paragraph 1 of the Aliens Act as the accompanying child of a foreigner with a residency permit issued under pursuant to section 9a of the Aliens Act
Expenses

Own notebook PC and books (approximately 7.500 dkr.).
Scholarship

KEA receives a limited number of government scholarships each year to fund highly qualified full-degree students from non-EU/EEA countries and Switzerland.

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Curriculum

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Code of conduct

KEA has a set of general codes of conduct, which apply to everyone. Locally, there might be more detailed codes.

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Diploma Supplement

KEA issues a Diploma Supplement in English automatically at the end of your studies, as a supplement to your diploma.

The Diploma Supplement is designed to provide a description of the nature, level, context, content and status of the qualification.

The Diploma Supplement contains a description of KEA Copenhagen School of Design and Technology and the Danish educational system.

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Product Development and Integrative Technology

Programme content and structure

Specialisations

Internship

Bachelor project

More information

Study form

How will you study?

Process and methodology

Career and future

Further education

Admission

Admission requirements

Language requirements

Application fee

Admission with special permission

Application

How to apply

Application deadline

Danish / EU / EAA students with a relevant Danish AP degree

EU/EAA students without a Danish AP degree

non-EU citizens

Limitations

Entrance Grade Point Average

Contact

Questions about application and admission

Questions about programme choice, courses and career

General information

Language

Address

Programme start

Finance

Expenses

Scholarship

Curriculum

Code of conduct

Diploma Supplement

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