Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2013-2014 (archived)

Module ENGI4111: MEng INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

Department: Engineering

ENGI4111: MEng INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS

Type	Tied	Level	4	Credits	20	Availability	Available in 2013/14	Module Cap	None.	Location	Durham

Tied to	H150

Prerequisites

Level 3 MEng Electronic Engineering route, Level 3 MEng Electrical Engineering route, Level 3 Mechanical Engineering route

Corequisites

As specified in programme regulations

Excluded Combination of Modules

As specified in programme regulations

Aims

This module is designed solely for students studying School of Engineering and Computing Sciences degree programmes.
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.

Content

The content builds on the technical engineering grounding from modules taken in Levels 1,2 and 3.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

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.

Subject-specific Skills:

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.

Key Skills:

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

In company 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.
Industrial Presentation. Each pair makes an oral presentation in the industrial setting followed by a time for questions. The industrial presentation is done as part of a 'roadshow' which will include similar presentations of colleague students in other companies. This enables peer-learning 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

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total/Hours
In Company Projects	2		79 Hours	158	■
Industrial Presentations	2		20 Hours	40	■
Tutorials	2		2 Hours	2	■
Total				200

Summative Assessment

Component: Project 1 Coursework		Component Weighting: %
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Effort and Planning		10%	No
Initiative and Ideas		10%	No
Report (Research Paper)		25%	No
Understanding		25%	No
Oral Performance		15%	No
Achievement		15%	No
Component: Project 2 Coursework		Component Weighting: 100%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Effort and Planning		10%	No
Initiative and Ideas		10%	No
Report (Research Paper)		25%	No
Understanding		25%	No
Oral Performance		15%	No
Achievement		15%	No

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