This is your chance to design and implement your own large-scale project of investigation, experimentation and analysis. Via a combination of meetings with your supervisor and delivered sessions on 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. Delivered sessions will assist you with project management research techniques and allow you to evaluate the requirements for areas such as Health and 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. It’s going to be an integrative project that allows you to deploy and extend the range of skills and knowledge you have previously and concurrently developed in your chosen course.

1. A 2500 words project proposal weighted at 10% assessing learning outcome 1. Meeting AHEP 4 Outcomes: C3, C5, C6, C8, C9, C11, C15, C18
2. A 1200 words project journal weighted at 20% assessing learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3. Meeting AHEP 4 Outcomes: C1, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C12, C15, C18
3. A 9000 words final project dissertation weighted at 60% assessing learning outcomes 2, 3 and 4. Meeting AHEP 4 Outcomes: C1, C2, C5, C12, C17
4. A 15-minute presentation and interview weighted at 10% assessing learning outcome 5. Meeting AHEP 4 Outcomes: C5, C17

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.

Professional Body requirements mean that a minimum overall score of 40% is required to pass a module, with each element of assessment requiring a minimum mark of 30% unless otherwise stated.

This module will enable students to gain understanding, apply knowledge, analyse and evaluate problems and create solutions through a variety of activities, including:
• Taught Lectures
• Student-centred learning to include research and practical activities

Apply appropriate professional engineering techniques to a planned Engineering project. (AHEP 4: C3, C5, C6, C8, C9, C11, C15, C18)
Knowledge & Understanding
Learning


Perform a detailed literature survey suitable to underpin a subsequent research-based project. (AHEP 4: C1, C4, C7)
Enquiry


Process and analyse complex sets of results, often of incomplete data.
(AHEP 4: C2, C5, C12)
Problem-Solving
Analysis
Application


Produce a major report conforming to a prescribed standard of referencing.
(AHEP 4: C5, C17)
Communication
Application


Present and defend the report and its findings to a critical audience.
(AHEP 4: C5, C17)
Communication
Application

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,
James, R., Rabins, M. J., Harris Jr., C., Pritchard, M., Englehardt, E., (2018) “Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases” Wadsworth Publishing Co.
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
Ridley, J., (2017) “Health and Safety in Brief”, 4th Ed, Routledge
Sharp, J. A., Peters, J., Howard, K., (2002) The Management of a Student Research Project, 3rd Ed, Routledge
Thomas, G. (2022) “How to Do Your Research Project: A Guide for Students”, 4th Ed, SAGE Publications Ltd.
Thompson, R. and Thompson, M., (2013) Sustainable Materials, Processes and Production (The Manufacturing Guides), Thames and Hudson Ltd
Wright, A. and Lawlor-Wright, T. (2018) “Project Success and Quality: Balancing the Iron Triangle”, Routledge, 1st Edition

Standard classroom facilities

The Engineering Project module will provide an opportunity to design and implement your own large-scale project of investigation, experimentation and analysis. 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. It’s going to be an integrative project that allows you to deploy and extend the range of skills and knowledge you have previously and concurrently developed in your chosen course.