2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PHYS3610 Group Innovation Project

20 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Samantha Pugh
Email: S.L.Pugh@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2023/24

Pre-requisite qualifications

Physics or Chemistry A-Level, or equivalent

This module is mutually exclusive with

PHYS3605	Physics in Schools
PHYS3705	Physics into Work

Module replaces

PHYS3181 Group Industrial Project

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module brings together Science and Entrepreneurship. Students work in a team to develop and build a business plan around an idea for an enterprise based on current scientific research that can help to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals) culminating in a presentation to an "investment panel". The module will help students to further develop their team-working, project and time management, commercial awareness and self reflection, while providing a valuable insight into the commercial side of science.

Objectives

Students will be introduced to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and have the opportunity to explore how current research in science can help to address them.

The module will lead students, working in a team-based environment, through the various stages of setting up a new enterprise, from the inception and development of the idea itself, through preparation of a business plan and pitch to potential investors.

Learning outcomes
1. Use their knowledge of science to develop a business proposal based on current research that addresses one or more of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals;
2. Construct a comprehensive business plan for this business start-up;
3. Make a group presentation/pitch to potential funders;
4. Work as a team to successfully deliver the project to a deadline
5. Evaluate own contribution to a team

Skills outcomes
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

Syllabus

- Introduction to enterprise
- Introduction to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Examples of existing science start ups (drawing on Nexus connections)
- Generating ideas – patents, research papers, journal articles
- Technical feasibility
- Market evaluation
- Financial planning and forecasting
- Production of a business plan for a new enterprise
- Preparation of funding proposal and presentation to investors

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Group Project	20	2.00	40.00
Lecture	2	1.00	2.00
Seminar	20	2.00	40.00
Private study hours			118.00
Total Contact hours			82.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Formative group presentation at the end of semester 1
- Regular check ins with each group to support progress with the project
- Use of MS Teams for monitoring group activity

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Group Project	5000 word, group-submission, written report	60.00
Presentation	Group presentation	20.00
Reflective log	1000 word individual reflection	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Peer evaluation of contribution to the team effort will also be used, and applied as a weighting factor to the group project element.

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 01/08/2023

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