1. Apply appropriate professional engineering techniques to a planned Engineering project. AHEP4 B5, B8, B9, B15
2. Perform a Detailed Literature Survey suitable to underpin a subsequent research-based project. AHEP4 B4,
3. Process and Analyse complex sets of Results, often of incomplete data. AHEP4 B3
4. Produce a major report conforming to a prescribed standard of referencing AHEP4 B4, B8, B15
5. Present and Defend the Report and its findings to a critical audience. AHEP4 B17

Project Proposal 10% assessing Learning Outcome 1
Final Project Dissertation (8000 words) 70% assessing Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4. AHEP4 B3, B4, B5, B8, B9, B15
Presentation and Interview 20% assessing Learning Outcome 5 (Final Assessment). AHEP4 B17

Students will be supported by an appropriate supervisor and given on-going formative feedback as part of a mechanism to develop their project and the summative elements of assessment. Draft work will be reviewed during tutorials or electronically to guide the student in this process.

Information on how to undertake presentations will be provided in tutorial sessions and academic skills advisors will be available to guide and advise on how to undertake presentations

This module aims to develop your skills and knowledge to help support your learning as a remote/off-campus student.
The work for this module provides an opportunity to design and implement a large-scale project of investigation, experimentation, and analysis. Via a combination of meetings with your supervisor and online material that covers the areas you will need to function as a professional engineer, you will plan, design, and implement your final project in an agreed area related to your course and the work that you do in your workplace. Online sessions will assist you with project management, research techniques and allow you to evaluate the requirements for areas such as Health & Safety, ethics, and your own personal development.

Your project will need to have practical and investigative elements, meaning you will have the opportunity to evaluate existing background, theories and knowledge as applied to a design problem or the development and improvement of new or existing processes and products. By using the wide-ranging skills, you have developed during your course you will be able to use practical measurement, design, implementation and above all, creativity, to devise and develop a solution based on sound engineering principles.

The work for this module provides an opportunity to design and implement a large-scale project of investigation, experimentation, and analysis. You will plan, design, and implement your final project in an agreed area related to your course and the work that you do in your workplace. The project will need to have practical and investigative elements, meaning you will have the opportunity to evaluate existing background, theories and knowledge as applied to a design problem or the development and improvement of new or existing processes and products.

Students will have participated in an award induction workshop where they will learn how to use the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) employed for the study of this module.

This module will enable students to gain understanding, apply knowledge, analyse and evaluate problems and create solutions through a variety of activities, including;

- Online sessions and learning material posted to the VLE introducing project planning, management, and areas of relevance to a professional engineer
- Student Centred Learning to include study skills, research and report writing

Subsequently, students will work through the module material provided on the VLE at a pace suggested within the VLE for the module. The material will include activities that allow students to assimilate the concepts and skills required by the module. Students will be encouraged to discuss relevant aspects via vehicles such as discussion forums hosted within the VLE. The forums will allow discussion with a student's peer group as well as the module tutor. Live tutorials will provide additional support in key areas.

Students will be expected to engage with independent reading, which should include texts, journals, websites that are pertinent to the learning outcomes and the issues or areas that form the focus of the module. Indicative texts.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, (2015) Unwritten Laws of Ethics and Change in Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Braungart, M. and McDonough, W., (2009) Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Vintage, M. and McDonough, W., (2009) Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Vintage

Leong, E. C., Heah, C. L. H., Ong, K. K. W., (2015) Guide to Research Projects for Engineering Students: Planning, Writing and Presenting, 1st Ed, CRC Press st Ed, CRC Press

Ridley, J., (2008) Health and Safety in Brief, 4th Ed, Routledge

Sharp, J. A., Peters, J., Howard, K., (2017) The Management of a Student Research Project, 3rd Ed, Routledge

Thompson, R. and Thompson, M., (2013) Sustainable Materials, Processes and Production (The Manufacturing Guides), Thames and Hudson Ltd

McMillan, K (2012) How to improve your critical thinking and reflective skills, 2nd Edition, Essex: Pearson Education Ltd, ISBN: 9780273773320

Blackboard VLE Library facilities
Scopus
Google Scholar
Connected Papers
Office 365