Professional Aspects of Engineering | ISVR6147

Module overview

This module is designed for final year MEng and MSc students across engineering disciplines to supplement your technical modules in order to prepare you for professional practice as a Chartered Engineer in modern society. In provides a broad overview of the legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks and the commercial and social contexts, constraints and challenges that face Chartered Engineers and how to navigate them using effective, efficient and ethical business, management and leadership practices. You will taught by a multi-disciplinary team consisting of engineers with extensive experience in industry, experts in business and finance, and scientists.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Engineering practice

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Explain relevant legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks within which Chartered Engineers must operate
Describe and explain the application of relevant practises related to business (including risk evaluation and management, budgeting and financial management), management (including project and people management) and leadership (including change management)
Describe and apply appropriately basic descriptive and inferential statistical methods to analyse professional engineering problems and evaluate potential solutions
Critically evaluate real-world professional engineering scenarios (e.g. in terms of ethics, risk, sustainability and legal compliance) and potential solutions
Explain relevant commercial, social and environment contexts, constraints and challenges faced by Chartered Engineers

Syllabus

The context

You: the ethical engineer (including honesty, integrity, respect for law, life and the environment)
Relevant legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks, including the IMechE code of conduct for engineers
Environmental, economic and social sustainability

Practises

Business (including risk evaluation and management, budgeting and financial management)
Management (including project and people management)
Leadership (including change management)

Statistics

Experimental design
Descriptive and inferential statistics
Hypothesis testing
Effect sizes and statistical power

Application

Design of new products
Industrial case studies

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and seminars with discussion

Computer labs and tutorials

Group workshops

Independent study

Study time
Type	Hours
Workshops	3
Seminar	24
Independent Study	123
Total study time	150

Assessment

Assessment strategy

You only need to refer on the components you did not pass at first attempt.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Continuous Assessment	50%
Continuous Assessment	20%
Final Assessment	30%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Final Assessment	30%
Continuous Assessment	50%
Continuous Assessment	20%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Continuous Assessment	50%
Continuous Assessment	20%
Final Assessment	30%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External