This module will provide you with extensive practical work experience in a business or commercial setting that is of direct relevance to your development as an experienced professional. You will get the chance to apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired from taught modules to authentic problem solving in the work place. Collaborating with your industrial and academic supervisor, you will identify an engineering-based project that will constitute your stage three individual project.

The Individual Project module will enable you to put into practice your research, project management and engineering skills, engaging you in the development of your own real world solution to an engineering problem or challenge. From clearly articulating the rationale for your project, to scoping and refining the design and finished product, you will work individually to apply the knowledge gained from other modules in your degree programme. You will be expected to innovate, create and present your engineering solution, honing your entrepreneurial as well as academic and practical skills.  In this way, the module will enable you to develop valuable transferable skills for future employment in industry.

In this module, you will apply the knowledge and skills obtained from taught modules to devise a real engineering solution at a professional level. You will be encouraged to use initiative, imagination and creativity during the management of your project, devoting around 300 hours of independent study towards its completion.  You will study with greater levels of autonomy than in previous taught modules.

Discipline and Module Intended Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module you should be able to:

Module Specific Skills and Knowledge

1 demonstrate detailed knowledge and understanding for your chosen engineering project;

2 use project management software, to plan and manage the progress of the project, from generation of the idea to finished product;

3 apply practical solutions to engineering problems, based on understanding of mathematical, scientific and/or computer based principles.

Discipline Specific Skills and Knowledge

4 investigate and define a problem and identify constraints including environmental and sustainability limitation;

5 assess and manage risk, demonstrating awareness of codes of practice, health and safety requirements and other professional practices;;

6 choose and utilise ICT based tools for analysis, design and communication of designs;

7 analyse and present data to support decision making.

Personal and Key Transferable / Employment Skills and Knowledge

8 demonstrate self management skills, identifying and meeting targets within time constraints (with the support of a project supervisor);

9 analyse and implement problem-solving approaches;

10 produce a written report conforming to a specified format and to a professional standard.
 

By individual negotiation with supervisor.

Basic reading:

ELE: vle.exeter.ac.uk

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