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This course gives an introduction to the methodologies and practices used by industrial engineers and researchers, accompanied by a substantial individual project addressing a challenge in engineering that the student has not previously encountered.

Full time study over a period of five weeks.

Students should have:

(a) met the Year 2 progression requirements unconditionally and

(b) completed Year 2 or 3 of one of the following programmes within the Glasgow College UESTC or Glasgow College Hainan, UESTC:

Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Information Engineering (in partnership with UESTC) OR

Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Communications (in partnership with UESTC) OR

Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Microelectronics (in partnership with UESTC).

The number of places will be restricted, and entry will be competitive, based on academic performance.

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80% Report

20% Oral Assessment & Presentation

As part of the grade for the laboratory reports, project reports, and oral presentation, students will evaluate the outcome of at least one of the reports via peer review, including a reflective analysis of their own strengths and weaknesses and the team as a whole as well as those of their colleagues, if the project involves more than one person.

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 C3 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. 

As the course grade is determined by a student's performance on the laboratories and project, it is not possible to reassess this course.

The aims of this project are to:

■ introduce students to working on a research project at a university; 

■ encourage independent thought and work;

■ develop technical skills and understanding in a chosen speciality;

■ encourage the application of the student's current knowledge to an unfamiliar area;

■ develop presentation skills, both for a report and an oral presentation;

■ give experience of project management.

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

■ review and analyse critically the scientific and engineering literature relevant to a specific research topic;

■ demonstrate intelligent application of their prior knowledge, skills and understanding within a field that may be unfamiliar to them;

■ conduct high quality technical work as an individual and/or as a member of a team in an academic environment;

■ demonstrate specific methodologies associated with their chosen project area; and

■ communicate the intermediate and final outcomes of their project orally with appropriate visual aids and in a written report.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.