MArch, MEng Architecture

Year 5

(Award available for year: Master of Arc & Eng)

Learning outcomes

Skills Learning Outcomes

1. Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

The Practical Skills to:

- use laboratory and field equipment competently and safely;
- observe record, process and analyse data from the laboratory and field;
- use computational tools and packages to optimise design solutions;
- prepare technical reports and give technical presentations to communicate information to both specialist and non-specialist audiences;
- prepare graphical presentations and technical drawings, both manually and using CAD.

The Key Skills to:

- communicate effectively using written, oral and graphical skills and to be able to sustain arguments;
- use mathematical skills appropriate to an engineer;
- apply the principles of architecture in building design;
- work independently and be capable of self-learning;
- work in a team environment;
- manage workloads and time effectively;
- work with limited or contradictory information and have an appreciation on the limits of knowledge;

Transferable (Key) Skills: the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;

- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative;

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