To further develop practical evaluation of professional engineering activity in a chosen specialisation.
To extend the student's ability to plan, implement and review appropriate activities in a large and academically demanding project, so as to achieve an agreed set of objectives in a given time scale.
Outline Syllabus
An advanced project study with a significant engineering content involving many, or all, of the elements following:
Problem specification;
Project planning;
Top-down design;
Design requirements analysis;
Implementation;
Design, implementation, and interpretation of engineering experimentation;
Sustainability;
Theoretical analysis and project reporting;
Audit of ethical, sustainability and safety issues