Module manager: Dr J L Summers
Email: J.L.Summers@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2014/15
| MECH3810 | Individual Project |
MECH 3600 Professional Studies
This module is not approved as a discovery module
On completion of this module, candidates should be able to:
- create a project plan and appreciate the constraints and time resources in managing small projects
- identify the risks associated with a project, predict their likelihood and assess their potential impact
- describe the application of standards and codes of practice in engineering with special emphasis on health and safety
- describe their ethical standards and principles and relate them to professional engineering ethics, responsibility and accountability
- locate literature pertinent to their final year project and position their work against it
- describe how intellectual property can be protected using copyright, design registration and patents
- describe the elements of critical thinking and relate them to engineering problems.
Candidates will have had the opportunity to develop the following skills through this module:
- Engineering reasoning and problem solving
- Systems thinking
- Professional skills and attitudes
- Project and risk management
- Research skills.
Health and safety, risk management, project management, intellectual property, standards and codes of practice, engineering ethics, literature searching and reviewing, critical thinking.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Seminar | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Private study hours | 78 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 22 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100 | ||
Individual study of module material.
Student progress will be monitored by project supervisors.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Ethics report | 45 |
| Report | Interim report | 55 |
| 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: 20/02/2015
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