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 Academic Year: |
2014/5 |
| Owning Department/School: |
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering |
| Credits: |
6 |
| Level: |
Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Modular (no specific semester) |
| Assessment Summary: |
CW 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
Before taking this unit you must take EE50104 and take EE50201 and take EE50206 and while taking this unit you must take EE50207 |
| Description: |
Aims: To engage students to work in groups to develop a design solution by enabling each student to: * Engage in a design activity as part of a group, * Communicate in a design/business environment, * Engage in research activities, * Practise design skills, * Acquire, practise and develop presentation skills, * Acquire, practise and develop critical review and peer assessment techniques, * Participate in a poster session, both as delegate and as presenter, * Engage each student to reflect on the relative merits of individual vs team working. Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit the student will be able to: Analyse customer needs and prepare a summary 'needs analysis' to share with team members, * Engage in group working with team members located remotely (global team-working/virtual group-working), * Share individual 'needs analysis' contributions, and collectively prepare a target specification that is agreed by the group, * Develop a complete design solution proposal, * Make presentations to a group to describe and explain the benefits of a particular design proposal, * Constructively critically appraise design proposals developed by others. * Use constructive criticism to improve design ideas, * Synthesise different design proposals into a single group offering, * Prepare and present a poster session on a design proposal. Skills: Team working, problem solving, virtual e-communication skills, time management, numeracy, written communication, working remotely but interactively as part of a group, leadership, IT, presentation, and critical review. Content: This unit is supported and closely integrated with co-requisites EE50206 and EE50207, the two residential schools associated with the programme. Student participation in these two residential schools in consecutive years will be strongly encouraged but is not mandatory. The unit builds on some of the learning outcomes of EE50201 Project Engineering in which aspects of the Management of Design are introduced and developed. Students will be allocated into teams of between 4 and 6 prior to the first residential school. Allocation will respect time-zone boundaries to facilitate synchronous online working. In the October following the first residential school the project will be launched with a brief outline of what is required. The students will assume roles to research different aspects of the project. They will be required to "e-communicate" to plan and agree a schedule of work to research and agree a common understanding of the requirements in the form of a combined and agreed design brief/needs analysis which will be submitted via Moodle and which will attract summative tutor assessment and formative feedback. This group work will take place within a designated period, with closely managed time line. It is expected that this phase will conclude in the December following the first residential school. The students will then work individually on a proposal to satisfy the design brief/needs analysis that they have agreed. There will be two parts to this phase and a guideline schedule outlining this will be provided. * The first part will be to prepare an outline of a design proposal which will receive formative tutor assessment. * The second part will be to develop a design proposal that will be subject to both formative (peer) and summative (peer) assessment. The assessment for the second part will be by peer review: Prior to the second residential period the peer-group assessment will be performed in an on-line environment: The students will present a summary of their design proposal and will be assessed (summative peer assessment with formative feedback) by the other members of their team. Students will have an opportunity to improve their proposals before the second residential school. During the second residential school, the students will work together to produce a synthesiis design that they will be expected to present in the form of a Poster Session towards the end of the second residential period. This will attract summative (multi-) tutor assessment. To conclude the unit the students will produce an individual reflection report which will attract summative tutor assessment. |
| Programme availability: |
EE50208 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
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