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Students will work in a team drawn from across the School on a project which involves collaborating in a multi-disciplinary engineering team, with the option to tackle broader considerations of project management, environmental issues, accountancy and quality management

Weekly meetings of 1 hour with the assigned PhD student mentor, one initial options appraisal presentation at the beginning of Semester 2 (15 minutes per group), a final report due at the end of Semester 2, and a peer review scoring document to be completed.

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60% final group report

20% options appraisal presentation

20% Peer Review

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. For non Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade D3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

Due to the team nature of this course it is not possible to offer reassessment opportunities.

To give students the experience of working in an integrated team on a creative design project that requires collaboration with engineering from different disciplines to their own; combined with broader considerations of project management, environmental issues, accountancy and quality management.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ determine the engineering issues in their own field required for an interdisciplinary project;

■ solve these specific, technical problems and integrate the results with those from the rest of the team;

■ produce robust initial options appraisals for project initiation, and present as oral report.

■ consider major implications of wider aspects of a project including planning application, environmental impact, sustainability and end-of-life issues;

■ have experience of working and communicating in a team with engineers from other disciplines;

■ present their team's findings effectively as a written report.

Students are expected to attend all meetings with the manager and to contribute to presentations and the final report. They must also make a significant contribution to the work of the team.