Venture Makers Short Course ‘COLLISION’
The world we inhabit is continuously changing through the colliding of rapid technological
advancements, global shocks, climate change and geo-political instability. As the world becomes more complex, the way society, consumers & business interact and behave also changes. For business, such an uncertain landscape requires new forms of thinking and a new set of diversified skills.
Innovation and entrepreneurship can provide frameworks to navigate and solve today's and
tomorrow’s problems and develop the capacities to reimagine.
The Venture Makers 'Collision' short course helps students to explore the DNA of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and apply methods to unpack complexity and create value with purpose and meaning.
Venture Makers Short Course 'Collision'
Creating value in a rapidly changing world
Course Details
Collision is a 12-hour online short course offered to build skills in innovation and entrepreneurship. It is delivered by the Venture Makers, Launch Pad Western Sydney University, through the Open Learning Platform.
Why do this course?
Develop skills in three fundamental elements of modern entrepreneurship:
- opportunity identification
- analytical risk-taking
- purposeful value creation
The Collision short course will be run over 4 weeks, 2-hour Zoom session each week (8 hours). The rest of the course (4 hours) is dedicated to self-learning on Open Learning.
There will be an Open Learning course access for participants.
Course dates
- 27 October, Thursday 3:00 – 5:00pm Beijing time (Sydney 6:00 – 8:00pm AEST)
- 3 November, Thursday 3:00 – 5:00pm Beijing time (Sydney 6:00 – 8:00pm AEST)
- 10 November, Thursday 3:00 – 5:00pm Beijing time (Sydney 6:00 – 8:00pm AEST)
- 17 November, Thursday 3:00 – 5:00pm Beijing time (Sydney 6:00 – 8:00pm AEST)
The participants successfully completing the course will receive a ‘certificate of completion’ and a ‘digital badge’.
Course Registration
Course 1
Online Training
Starts: 9 August
The course spans over 2 weeks, consisting of:
Course 2
Face-to-face Training
Starts: 23 August
The course consists of:
- 2x full-day (8am -5pm) face-to-face training sessions and
- 1x half-day (9am – 1pm) factory visit
Hybrid Course
Face-to-Face Training in Parramatta NSW
OR
Online on Zoom
Training starts: 23 August 2022
The course consists of:
- 2x full-day (8am -5pm) face-to-face and online training sessions and
- 1x half-day (9am – 1pm) factory visit
This course is being brought to you by the Alliance of Guangzhou International Sister-City Universities (GISU) in partnership with Launch Pad, Western Sydney University.
This short course is being offered at ‘no cost’ to the GISU Alliance member universities.
To register for these programs, please contact the designated GISU member representative of your university.
Important Dates
- Registration opens: 28 September 2022
- Deadline for registering with the University Delegate: 21 October 2022
- Deadline for finalising registration process with the Western Sydney University: 25 October 2022
- Course commences: 27 October 2022
For further information contact:
Inu Rana at i.rana@westernsydney.edu.au
To register for these programs, please contact the designated GISU member representative of your university.
Course Structure
The Essentials of Additive Manufacturing short training course offers flexible training options to suit your busy schedule.
The online course starting August 9th, is held over a two week period with four half-day sessions each week. A fifth, hands-on session is held at Western Sydney University’s Advanced Manufacturing Precinct in Kingswood, allowing you to put your newfound knowledge into practice.
The face-to-face course starting August 23rd, is held over three days with two full-days of additive manufacturing knowledge and experience presented by GE Additive in person at our Parramatta Engineering Innovation Hub. The third day includes a 4 hour tour and hands on session at the Western Sydney University’s Advanced Manufacturing Precinct in Kingswood.
Interactive sessions on the topics below (4 hours each)
- Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
- Design considerations for DMLM
- Design considerations for EBM
- Additive materials considerations
- Understanding the qualification of additive components
- Business case development
- Investigating additive part selection
- Part identification Case Study
In-person session at WSU Advanced Manufacturing Precinct
- Visit to Western Sydney University’s Advanced Manufacturing Precinct for a hands-on experience using skills learnt throughout course.
Testimonials
‘This course exceeded my expectations. The presenters are genuine experts in their field of the kind you rarely get access to. The time commitment was about right: 5 half day over two weeks was enough to go deeply into the subject without too much extraneous material. I now feel like I am heading down the road toward advanced manufacturing with a map in my hand, armed with a much better understanding of the fundamentals’
Colin Fisher - Aquacell
The Benefits
A short course training experience to help you understand the future of additive manufacturing
Find out more
With speakers from WSU Launch Pad, Western Parkland City Authority and GE Additive, our audience gained an understanding of what the Program was really about and how it came to be. They met team members delivering the training and asked questions about the sessions.
There are limited spots in each course and they are filling up fast, so make sure to click the button below to express your interest and reserve your spot, today!
