Engineering and the Law UESTC3030

  • Academic Session: 2023-24
  • School: School of Engineering
  • Credits: 15
  • Level: Level 3 (SCQF level 9)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 1
  • Available to Visiting Students: No

Short Description

This course introduces students to the practice of engineering within a commercial environment so that they will contribute effectively to new organisations after graduation focusing on:

■ Ethics

■ Business Law

■ Product Development and Entrepreneurship

■ Branding & Marketing

Timetable

This course will be timetabled in blocks, typically one week in four.

4 double sessions per teaching week

4 weeks in total

Requirements of Entry

Mandatory Entry Requirements

None

Recommended Entry Requirements

None

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Two assignments (50%) on

■ Product development and marketing (50%)

■ Ethics and the law (50%)

under the same overall project to enable connections to be made between assignments and reduce the workload of understanding the context.

Main Assessment In: December

Course Aims

This course introduces students to the practice of engineering within a commercial environment so that they will contribute effectively to new organisations after graduation.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

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

 

■ Evaluate ethical principles and analyse case studies from real engineers' experiences, that reflect the relevance of ethics in engineering practice.

■ Analyse and apply legal principles to resolve identified issues from contractual agreements and wrongdoing resulting from the relationship between rights and responsibilities, presenting arguable conclusions.

■ Appraise and apply product development lifecycle techniques to the specification of innovative sustainable engineering products and/or services.

■ Recognise and apply strategies for business to business and business to consumer marketing market development using complex market channels.

■ Apply key concepts and principles from ethics, law, product development, and marketing to a contextual example linking theory and practice meaningfully and identifying the most relevant data to substantiate discourse.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

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