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The course provides students with an opportunity to carry out an extended, individual and in-depth project. It allows students to demonstrate their abilities as future engineers, based on their previous undergraduate knowledge and that acquired during their postgraduate study. The project may be carried out in industry, or at an overseas University in China or in Glasgow University or a combination of these, but typically at an overseas University.

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60% Report in English
20% Oral Assessment and Presentation - in English.
20% Practical skills Assessment: Conduct during Project 

The aims of this project are to:

■ encourage independent thought and work at the leading edge of engineering technology;

■ develop the professional skills required for employment in an internationally leading industrial or research environment;

■ apply the student's engineering knowledge to a substantive problem in an unfamiliar area, accounting for real world constraints;

■ allow the student to apply and critique a variety of engineering analyses and/or develop innovative design solutions;

■ develop technical communication skills, both in a substantial report and an oral presentation.

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

■ take personal responsibility for directing a project plan to solve an engineering problem in an unfamiliar area, typically in an international context;

■ interact in a professional and ethical manner with colleagues, exercising initiative, and applying techniques of project management where appropriate;

■ summarise the key technical (including, where appropriate, academic references, codes of practice and standards) and non-technical (including, where appropriate, commercial, environmental and legal) drivers and constraints of a complex engineering problem;

■ apply mathematics, extensive discipline specific knowledge, principles from related disciplines, and knowledge from outside engineering, in the critical analysis and creative solution of an engineering problem;

■ critically assess interim project outcomes and adapt theory, experimental approaches and design choices to mitigate deficiencies;

■ evaluate project results in relation to current and emerging technologies and in view of current and future societal needs;

■ write a substantial, well presented technical report in clear and concise English;

■ present technical information verbally to non-experts using appropriate presentation aids.

The students must perform a satisfactory amount of work for the project, submit interim reports, the final report and prepare an oral presentation.