Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Communicate both orally and in writing
- Establish a project plan that is efficient and recognises group strengths and the time frame
- Monitor the progress of your design and the project outcomes
- Use (if appropriate) computer based engineering tools and modelling to solve problems
- Reflect on group processes and own role in team work
- Prioritise competing demands
- Record discussions at supervisory and peer based meetings in such a way that they can be effectively referred to in the future
- Plan and meet your own deadlines
- Demonstrate independence as a learner
- Manage your time
- Locate, read, understand and review research papers
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Gather and synthesise data, contextualise your results, recommend further work, or how work could have been improved
- Evaluate critically your strategy, processes and output
- Generate ideas related to designing new or appropriate solutions, systems, components or processes
- Coordinate a creative and innovative design solution with the effective use of appropriate design methodologies
- Research information related to a design solution and discuss within the group
- Assess the social, economic, political, legislative, environmental, cultural, ethical, technical, environmental and commercial aspects of the problem to be solved in order to develop a comprehensive project brief
- Apply appropriate quantitative science and engineering tools to the analysis of unfamiliar problems
- Design a component, system or process using appropriate design techniques and be able to describe key elements of those processes
- Locate, read, understand and review research papers and be able to describe different research and methodological approaches across disciplines
- Describe any commercial risks [as appropriate]
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 402 |
Teaching | 48 |
Total study time | 450 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Potential resources. The projects within this module are diverse and are supported by a wide range of potential resources, including Design Studios and workshops, time allocated within specialist laboratories and testing facilities, and specialist software. Each project group is allocated a budget which can be spent to support the project (e.g. materials for manufacture, travel), as well as time within the chemistry lab or/and Engineering, Design and Manufacturing Centre (EDMC) for the production of professionally manufactured components. Many projects have additional sponsorship from industry. You will be given a budget that you must manage to deliver your design to cost. Each project qualifies for funding at a level determined by the core project funding and the number of students in each group. Funds will cover the costs of travel expenses, materials and hospitality for project sponsors. This budget per GDP is, for 2018/19, £300 plus £80 per student. Each group should appoint a treasurer who is responsible for ensuring that the budget is properly managed. Teams who exceed their budget will be expected to settle the difference personally no additional Faculty funding will be available, except in extreme and unavoidable circumstances.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
There is no referral option for this core module. Students failing this GDP will be required to take an internal repeat year.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Individual Output | 32% |
Group report and presentation | 20% |
Group Presentations and Report | 48% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal