KD6024 - Individual Engineering Project

The module will be delivered via a combination of introductory lectures and progress review meetings with supervisors. The introductory lectures will focus on providing you with advice and guidance on general aspects of project management and report writing skills.

Supervision of the project involves regular meetings between you and your project supervisor. These meetings allow you to receive guidance and formative feedback in order to steer you to successful completion of the project. These meetings also provide you with an opportunity to develop your verbal communication skills.

The module requires a significant proportion of self-directed independent learning within the framework of the project plan and supervisor’s guidance and feedback. Overall, learning will be through the input from lectures and supervision and your active development, execution and monitoring of the project plan.

As indicated above, introductory lectures will support you by providing advice and guidance on general aspects of project management and report writing skills. The key support will be provided by the regular meetings with your supervisor for guidance and formative feedback in order to steer you to successful completion of the project. These meetings also provide you with an opportunity to develop your verbal communication skills.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Undertake an engineering problem from initial design to final completion, whilst critically appraising the need for cost and planning of the project. (AHEP4 C1, C4)

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
2. Apply their existing engineering knowledge to identify the correct methods to solve a specific engineering problem. (AHEP4 C1, C3, C5, M5)
3. Analyse complex problems, select and apply appropriate computational and analytical techniques to solve a specific engineering problem.(AHEP4 C2)
4. Apply a range of analytical, practical and manufacturing skills to a given engineering problem (AHEP4 C12, M12 )
5. Ability to convey technical information to a third party, including presentation skills both written and oral (AHEP C8, C9, C10, C17, C18, M8,M9, M10, M18)

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
6. Consider the wider aspects of an engineering problem, including ethical, environmental, health and safety and risk assessment, and security issues, with mitigation measures.(AHEP4 C8, C9, C10, M8, M9,M10)
7. Plan, record and update your professional skill development throughout the programme towards developing employability skills (AHEP4 C18, M18)

The module is rich in formative feedback based on the one to one meetings with project supervisors. In this environment guidance is provided to nudge the student towards possible solutions, not to provide the solutions. Normally meetings would take place every week for a half an hour, or every two weeks for an hour.
Further formative feedback is provided on the planning document and the poster presentation both key parts of being able to explain the project work to an audience. Your professional development records throughout the program will also be evaluated.


The module will be assessed by:
coursework (CW): Project Planning report (35%) – LO1, LO6
presentation (PRE) Project Poster Presentation (10%) – LO5
coursework (CW): Project Final Report (55%) – LO2,LO3,LO4, LO6, LO7

As a part of their final project report submission, the students will submit a reflective report to review their lifelong/CPD training undertaken to date and plan for new ones to help develop as an individual.
All LOs will be assessed in each of the above assessments.

Written feedback from the above summative assessments is provided from a standard written template.

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The Individual Engineering Project is an important part of your Final Year studies. This year-long module gives you the freedom to work independently on a substantial project, chosen from a range of titles offered by expert supervisors working in each of the specialist pathway subject areas. It provides an opportunity to develop your research, planning and practical skills, along with the ability to identify key objectives and combine these in an investigation that you, with guidance from your supervisor, take from inception to completion. You will develop skills in interpreting and critically appraising your results in order to identify key conclusions supported by relevant theory and literature. In this module you will also get the opportunity to develop your skills in independent time management, constructing and documenting a detailed project plan* and presenting and defending your work visually and orally*. These activities culminate in the production of a final report* and further develop the valuable skills that will enhance your future career prospects. (*assessed)