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

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:

■ Apply a comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles to formulate and analyse solutions to complex engineering issues in their own field required for an interdisciplinary project;

■ solve these specific, technical problems and integrate the results functioning effectively as an individual and as a member of a team;

■ produce robust initial options appraisals for project initiation, and communicate effectively at a lay-engineering level as oral report.

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

■ Critically evaluate effectiveness of working and communicating in a team with engineers from other disciplines;

■ Justify decision-making process through presentation of their team's findings effectively as a written report.