Proposal

A 1000-word project proposal, weighted at 20% meeting Learning Outcome 1. Assessing AHEP 4 Outcomes: C3, C5, C6, C8, C9, C15.

Report

A 6000-word project report, weighted at 60% meeting Learning Outcomes 2, 3 and 4. Assessing AHEP 4 Outcomes: C1, C2, C6, C17.

Presentation

A 10-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of Q&A, weighted at 20% meeting Learning Outcome 5. Assessing AHEP 4 Outcomes: C5, C17.

Formative assessment and feedback will be provided throughout the semester.

This is your opportunity to design and implement a comprehensive project that encompasses investigation, experimentation, and analysis, crucial for your development as a professional engineer.

You will:

* Engage in a large-scale project with guidance from your supervisor and structured sessions.
* Focus on planning, designing, and executing a project within an agreed-upon area relevant to your course.
* Access support in project management, research techniques, and assess health and safety, ethics, and personal development requirements.
* Incorporate practical and investigative elements to evaluate existing theories and develop design solutions.
* Apply skills from your course to engage in practical measurement, design, implementation, and creativity.
* Undertake an integrative project to apply and expand on skills and knowledge acquired during your studies.

1. Devise and justify a plan for an individual engineering project, demonstrating an in-depth understanding of contemporary project planning and management techniques, while considering ethical principles and health and safety requirements. (AHEP 4: C3, C5, C6, C8, C9, C15)

Programme Learning Outcome: Knowledge & understanding

2. Conduct a detailed and structured literature review that identifies, analyses and summarises relevant academic and technical sources to provide a solid foundation for subsequent simulation-based/practical project work. (AHEP 4: C4)

Programme Learning Outcome: Research skills

3. Apply appropriate design, simulation, and/or practical implementation techniques to develop engineering solutions to complex problems, and to process, critically analyse, and interpret results, often comprising incomplete data. (AHEP 4: C1, C2, C6, C17)

Programme Learning Outcome: Application & problem-solving, Digital literacy

4. Critically evaluate and refine project objectives, methods, results, and conclusions in a comprehensive and analytical project report, including reflective analysis of personal learning and professional development, meeting recognised academic standards of presentation and referencing. (AHEP 4: C5)

Programme Learning Outcome: Personal development & entrepreneurship, Reflection

5. Present effectively and professionally about project outcomes and your critical reflections on those, responding effectively to questions and feedback from a varied audience. (AHEP 4: C5, C17)

Programme Learning Outcome: Communication

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

* Taught sessions
* Student-centred learning
* Weekly project supervision meetings

In addition to taught sessions in Semester 1, you will have approximately 8 hours of supervisor meetings spread across both semesters. You may book your own lab/workshop time with the appropriate technical supervisor to conduct any practical experiments you are required to do to complete your project.

- Microsoft Office
- Appropriate Project Management software
- Specialised Engineering software suitable for your project
- Access to appropriate Engineering labs/workshops

Nicholas, J. M. & Steyn, H., (2025) Project Management for Engineering, Business and Technology, 7th edn, Routledge.

Siegel, N. G., (2024) Engineering Project Management: A Hands-On Guide for Successful Engineering Projects, 2nd edn, Wiley.

Carboni, J. B., Duncan, W., Young, M. L., Pace, M., Gonzalez, M., Smyth, D. (2024) Sustainable Project Management: The GPM Practice Guide. Independently Published

Ridley, J., (2017) Health and Safety in Brief, 4th edn, Routledge

James, R., Rabins, M. J., Harris Jr., C., Pritchard, M., Englehardt, E., (2018) Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases. Wadsworth Publishing Co.

Thomas, G. (2022) How to Do Your Research Project: A Guide for Students, 4th edn, SAGE Publications Ltd.
Wright, A. and Lawlor-Wright, T. (2018) Project Success and Quality: Balancing the Iron Triangle. 1st edn. Routledge.

Leong, E. C., Heah, C. L. H., Ong, K. K. W., (2016) Guide to Research Projects for Engineering Students: Planning, Writing and Presenting, 1st edn, CRC Press

The Engineering Final Year 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 course.