o Dissertation (90 credits)

This module involves the development and delivery of an individual engineering

project. Project topics are usually aligned with an academic supervisor’s research
interests or contribute to industrially collaborative areas of technical enquiry of
significance to the department.

Projects can vary from research-orientated investigations of new methods or

techniques through to the design and verification of components for manufacture.
Part-time students may undertake a project linked to their company subject to
approval, and in such cases, students are assigned an academic supervisor from
the university and a technical contact within the company.

The emphasis is on applying skills learnt during the course. This will require
students to self-manage their project; to select and apply engineering modelling
and analysis, and to use this to deliver a technically justified solution to an
engineering problem. Students will undertake a feasibility study, write up their
project findings in an individual technical report, and produce a poster suited to
the communication of technical information and project outcomes.

Where possible, projects are connected to an industrial partner and are structured
to enable the student to develop and demonstrate several of the professional
engineering competences defined by the Engineering Council.