Individual Project

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This document only provides information for the academic year selected and does not form part of the student contract

School:

School of Computing and Engineering

Credit Rating:

Level (including FHEQ):

M (FHEQ Level 7)

Graded or Non Graded:

Graded

Version Valid From:

2022-09-01

Module Leader:

Qiang Xu

Version Number

2022.01

Learning Methods

Tutorial and Project Supervision

Guided Independent Study

Synopsis

The project provides you with the opportunity required within an MSc to undertake a major programme of advanced independent work. Where possible your project is carried out in collaboration with an industrial company and takes place at the company.

Learning Strategy

In this module the learners will engage in a blend of delivery methods facilitating both individual and collaborative aspects of learning to achieve the specified learning outcomes. In particular, this will require the learner to engage with the VLE content, including extensive pre-recorded teaching and support materials, where the learning is facilitated by the tutor-led two-way asynchronous discussion board. This will culminate in face-to-face sessions which will reinforce the learning by clarifying the content through student-led questions/answers interaction. These sessions are followed up by tutorials to illustrate the module content and enable practice in more depth. The project will be introduced to the student through a short series of lectures supplemented with material via the VLE. During this time the student will be required to identify a project area. This may be a research based project from within the University or a company generated project. The objective is to have the student plan and carry out a substantive research project in which they self-learning will developed and strengthened. Regular supervisory meetings will help facilitate this by collaborative goal setting and open discussion.
Students with disability will be accommodated by close adherence to the University of Huddersfield guidelines which inter alia include: (i) pre-recorded materials with captions of suitable size, (ii) Power Point slides following the appropriate font size and colour contrast, (iii) early availability of all materials on VLE – typically at least two weeks in advance.

Outline Syllabus

Where possible the project is developed in collaboration with an industrial company and carried out at the company under the supervision of an academic and an industrial tutor.
Otherwise, projects will be carried out within one of the research groups in the department.
Towards the end of the project, students must present a formal paper on their work to an audience of staff, industrialists and fellow students. They must also produce a dissertation, which they may be required to defend in an oral examination.
Project planning, research methods, research skills, critical appraisal of literature, project risk assessment.
The project requires the student to investigate a topic and achieve specified technical goals through understanding the application of planning, analytical, problem-solving and design skills.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students will

Understand the mechanisms used to effectively plan, research and undertake an in-depth technical project.

Understand the technical background to the project and the limitations of current knowledge and solutions in the project area.

Plan, manage and execute a technical project.

By the application of intellectual, investigative and technical skills, develop an effective and original solution to a given problem or project.

Communicate effectively.

Formative Assessment

Assessment 1: Other

Assessment 2: Other

Summative Assessment

Assessment 1: Dissertation/Thesis/Design Thesis (Written)

Assessment 2: Presentation

Assessment Criteria

Demonstrate the ability to investigate and identify the problems associated with a project and to conduct an effective and critical survey of the background literature relevant to a specific engineering project.
Demonstrate the ability to effectively plan a research project leading to a useful solution within a prescribed timescale, accounting for the limitations of knowledge and resources.
Demonstrate the aptitude to be a multi-skilled engineer with enhanced technical knowledge, management, leadership and entrepreneurial skills.
Demonstrate the ability to propose novel and effective solutions to a specific engineering project in order to achieve the required aims and objectives.
Demonstrate the ability to communicate logically and effectively:
(i) the aims and objectives relevant to the solution of a particular engineering problem;
(ii) the results and outcomes of the proposed solution and
(iii) the proposed methodologies for achieving the aims and objectives of the specified engineering problem.

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