Module manager: Dr N Hondow
Email: N.Hondow@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2023/24
This module is not approved as a discovery module
On completion of this module, students should be able to create the technical knowledge and skills required to pursue SCAPE programmes of study and enhance students' career prospects.
- Be effective users of IT.
- Be able to find and apply, with judgement, information from technical literature and other sources.
- Have developed a range of effective communication skills including written reports and presentations.
- Understand the need for high ethical and professional standards and understand how they are applied to issues facing engineers.
- Understand the principles of risk assessment and of safety management.
- Have a knowledge and understanding of laboratory practice.
- Be able to design, plan and undertake experimental and critically interpret, analyse and report on experimental data.
- Recognise the importance of project planning and time management and have acquired a range of experience in achieving these.
Information skills: gathering and using information; referencing and plagiarism; critical analysis.
Communication skills: technical writing; literature reviews; report writing; oral presentation.
Data analysis and presentation: IT skills: use of software: MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel.
Engineering Applications: carry out a risk assessment, obtain data and then analyse them.
Team working skills: researching information as a team, organising and planning tasks within a team, prepare and deliver an oral presentation as a team.
- Lectures on information skills (information gathering, referencing and plagiarism); writing skills (technical report writing); health and safety and risk assessment; data analyses and presentation (visual presentation of data; statistics - distributions and their description; data acquisition; error analysis and handling; analysing and modelling of statistical data); practical briefings.
- Practical on information skills (information gathering); practical on IT skills (statistical analyses, Excel software), seminar on ethics, experiments designed to provide sufficient results for report compilation and data analysis.
- Lectures on engineering ethics: decision making, group and individual responsibility;
- Group project assignment.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Group learning | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Practical | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Practical | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Tutorial | 15 | 1 | 15 |
| Independent online learning hours | 5 | ||
| Private study hours | 150 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 45 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
As a result of the teaching and assessments, the students are expected to:
- Prepare for lectures, lab practicals, computer practicals
- Write reports following experiments in lab practicals
- Meet as a group to collect, analyse and discuss research findings
- Write a group report
- Prepare and practice a group oral presentation
Discussions during classes.
Practicals during the experiments - discussion with lecturers, demonstrators and technical staff.
Feedback given on lab practical report assignments.
Regular meetings with group supervisors and subsequently oral presentations and report writing.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Group Project | Group project | 35 |
| Presentation | Presentation | 10 |
| Report | Report | 50 |
| In-course MCQ | Test | 5 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 4/28/2023
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