Engineering and the Law UESTCHN3011

  • 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

Four assignments (25%) on each of the themes of Engineering and the law on 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.