Module ENGI4111: MEng INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

Department: Engineering

ENGI4111: MEng INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

Prerequisites

• (ENGI3391 Control and Signal Processing; ENGI3351 Engineering Design;ENGI3421 Management and Manufacture OR ENG13431 Management and Electronic Manufacture; ENGI3371 Electrical Engineering OR ENG13331 Microelectronics; ENGI3291 Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics OR ENG13321 Software Engineering and Communications; ENGI3411 Applied Mechanics OR ENGI3361 Electronics) OR (MEng(Overseas))

Corequisites

Excluded Combination of Modules

Aims

• This module is for students intending to fulfil the requirements of the M.Eng streams in Design Manufacturing and Management and New and Renewable Energy.
• It provides the opportunity for the student to carry out two industrial projects at Masters Level contributing to the professional skills required by practicing engineers. The projects are carried out in pairs, usually one in the product design field and one in the manufacture field (Or in the Energy/ Environment field for those students in the New and Renewable Energy stream).

Content

• The content is primarily the application of principles, practice and theory taught in the taught modules of the DMM and New & Renewable Energy streams.
• The content builds on the technical engineering grounding in General Engineering in years 1,2,&3.
• The content specifically builds on the Industrial Problem Solving toolkits and mini project in L3.

Learning Outcomes

• At the end of the year the students should have achieved advanced skills in planning and implementing Industrial/Business investigations.
• Mathematics relevant to the application of advanced engineering concepts.
• Advanced or highly specialised finance, business and management techniques relevant to engineering.
• The role and responsibility of a professional engineer within the context of the ethical and environmental structure in which they practice.

• To specify, plan, manage, conduct and report on an engineering project.
• To analyse,evaluate and interpret complex or specialised engineering data.
• To apply engineering principles to the solution of problems in an engineering design, manufacturing and business context.
• To synthesise data from a variety of sources and apply to the solution of a particular problem.
• To demonstrate an awareness of practical engineering skills.
• To observe and record accurately data and experimental evidence in a specific industrial/business context.
• The preparation and delivery of advanced technical reports.
• The effective preparation and delivery of technical/business presentations to a senior audience.
• An understanding of Risk Assessment and COSHH
• To use advanced or highly specialised computational tools and packages.
• To be imaginative and innovative in the solution of technical and non-technical problems

• Capacity for independent self learning within the bounds of professional practice.
• The effective communication of advanced technical concepts (written, verbal, drawing, sketching etc.)
• Highly specialised use of information technology (IT) relevant to the engineering profession.
• Highly specialised numerical skills appropriate to an engineer.
• Team working within the project pairing and with the hosting company personnel.
• Time and Resource management skills
• Advanced problem solving skills.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Two industrial Projects - students work in pairs in a hosting company for two weeks on each of the projects. The students must work with a different partner and at a different company in the second project from either the first project or the Industrial Problem Solving mini-project
• Students develop skills in an industrial environment with an emphasis on planning and implementing industrial investigations with guidance from an industrial supervisor.
• Students are required to produce a substantial written individual report for each of the two projects.
• Each pair makes an oral presentation in the industrial setting followed by a time for questions. The presentation is done as part of a 'roadshow' which will include similar presentations of colleague students in other companies. This gives additional learning from their peers - both in technical contact and oral presentation.
• Assessment for the two projects is equally weighted and is based on an assessment matrix to ensure that all the learning outcomes are addressed under the headings Effort, Teamworking, Initiative and Ideas, Written Report, Achievement and Oral Presentation

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

None

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University