Postgraduate Course: Energy Consulting Project (CMSE11316)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | The Energy Consulting Project is an interdisciplinary course that views energy in specific and finance more generally from the eyes of businesses. To understand the opportunities and pitfalls that the changing energy market brings to businesses, the course addresses that actions and responsibilities that businesses have and the competitive context within which they have to take those. At the heart of the course are a number of collaborations between private and/or public sector organisations and groups of students. The business partners are private and/or public sector organisations that ask the students to address and solve one of their energy related concerns. This allows the students to apply their academic knowledge and industry experience to a business situation. The students have to formally presented their findings and recommendations to the business partner and the course organizer through oral presentation and a written report. |
| Course description |
The Energy Consulting Project will be a partnership between a host organisation and the Business School. The host organisation initially identifies an important short-term energy finance/economics project that is then executed, over a period of between 2-3 months, by a small team of MSc Energy Finance and Markets students. The students will apply their academic knowledge to a 'real life' business situation. The project findings and recommendations are formally presented to the host organisation along with a written report. Projects may cover any aspect of energy finance/economics and may, in principle, be located in any commercial, industrial, public sector or non-profit organisation of any size. It is anticipated that the projects will be based in firms located within Scotland or the UK. The course aims to provide students with an opportunity to put theoretical learning into practice, and in doing so, to develop a wide range of transferable skills, such as team-working, leadership, presentation skills, problem formulation and solving, information retrieval and research skills, time planning and project management. The course also aims to provide host organisations with a useful contribution to their own energy, climate change and low carbon-related objectives.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
150
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Lecture Hours 10,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 120,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
17 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Coursework (Oral presentation and written report) |
| Feedback |
Provision of Formative Feedback
All students will be given at least one formative feedback or feedforward event for every course they undertake, provided during the semester in which the course is taken and in time to be useful in the completion of summative work on the course. Such feedback may be at course or programme level, but must include input of relevance to each course in the latter case.
Feedback Deadlines
Feedback on formative assessed work will be provided within 15 working days of submission, or in time to be of use in subsequent assessments within the course, whichever is sooner. Summative marks will be returned on a published timetable, which has been made clear to students at the start of the academic year. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Work in a small group on a tightly focussed project and develop group dynamics management skills
- Learn to create and develop mutually beneficial client relationships and experience 'real life' consulting with an external client
- Interpret and understand clients' needs, often in an evolving environment in order to deliver value
- Develop business report writing skills
- Develop critical business presentation skills through presentation of business reports to School faculty and external clients
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Reading List
Michael Ringel, Andrew Taylor and Hadi Zablit (2015). The most innovative companies 2015. Four factors that differentiate leader. Boston, The Boston Consulting Group.
Andreas Werr, Torbjorn Stjernberg and Peter Docherty (1997). The functions of methods of change in management consulting. Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 10 Iss 4 pp. 288 - 307 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
- Knowledge and understanding
- Practice
- Generic cognitive skills
- Communication
- Autonomy, accountability and working with others |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Kathi Kaesehage
Tel:
Email: Kathi.Kaesehage@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Ashley Harper
Tel: (0131 6)51 5671
Email: Ashley.Harper@ed.ac.uk |
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