Examinations & Progression to

MSc Project & Dissertation

• To progress to the dissertation stage students must have a minimum
MSc Project & Dissertation grade profile of CCCCDDDD
– A student who fails to achieve the taught part grade profile can retrieve
up to a maximum of 40 credits of assessment
– Only one retrieval per module is allowed
• Re-sit Exams in August/September
MSc in Sustainable Electrical
• MSc Awards (With Dissertation) (180 Credits)
Power (SEP) – MSc with Distinction
– MSc with Merit
– MSc

Dr Gary Taylor • Intermediate Awards

– Postgraduate Diploma (120 Credits)
(Director SEP MSc Programme) – Postgraduate Certificate (60 Credits)

Format of the Project and

MSc Award Decisions
Important Dates
Award Grade Profile Dissertation • Guides available on u-link
– MSc Guidelines
– MSc Interim Report Guidelines
– Project Lists
MSc with Distinction AAAABBCC A • Project lists on u-link by end of Week 20 12th February 2010)
• Talk to the academics!
MSc with Merit BBBBCCCC B • Industrial projects (Centrica)
• Projects can also be suggested by students
MSc CCCCDDDD C • Important Dates
– Agreeing a project Topic with Supervisor and informing the TPO
• Use the form supplied with Interim Report Guidelines
• End of Week 23 (5th March 2009)
Postgraduate Certificate CCDD - – Oral Presentation (10-15 minutes) of Interim Report
• Week 35 (27-28th May 2010)
Postgraduate Diploma CCCCDDDD - – Submission of Interim Report
• Week 36 (4th June 2010) End of September 2010 for Year 1 Part-time students
– Start of major project phase
• After May Exams
• Industry Steering Committee Poster presentation 15th July 2010

Submission of the Dissertation Running Your Project

• Submission by end of September 2010
– Electronic copy must be included (CD)
– Final grades will be available by November
2010 after the Board of Examiners meeting
– Final grades for late submissions may not be
available until June 2011 after the next Board
of Examiners meeting
• Data Acquisition
– Through Mathematical analysis
– Through Computer modelling and Computer Aided
Design
– Through laboratory measurements
• Analysis
– The 'analysis' undertaken in formulating the topic of
investigation
– Construction of models representing situations of
interest
– Analysis are applied to existing data

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 Preparing The Dissertation
• Front Cover Page and other
– Signed Statement on plagiarism
– Abstract
– Acknowledgement etc
• The Introduction
– What the subject or topic is;
– Why you are investigating it;
– Which aspects you will consider, and why;
– …….
• Project Management
• Literature review
• Methods, Results and Analysis
• Conclusions and Further Work
• References and Bibliography
• Length of the dissertation
– Maximum of 80 pages including diagrams!
– Electronic copy!
– Interim report must be included at the back!
Assessment
• Interim report and oral presentation
– Report is only assessed by the supervisor
– Presentation is assessed by the supervisor and a second academic
• Poster presentation
– Independently assessed by academic and industry steering committee
members
• Dissertation
– Independently assessed by the supervisor and a second academic
– Then, the two examiners discuss the dissertation marks
• If the discrepancy is across grades the two examiners must agree a grade
• Else, a third reader will assess the dissertation and decide the final grade
– External examiner will also examine selected dissertations
• Indicative Grade Weighting
– 10% Interim report (Oral presentation contribution 50%)
– 90% Dissertation (Poster presentation contribution 10%)

Plagiarism
• Plagiarism is defined as “To take and
use as one’s own the thoughts,
writings or inventions of another”
(Oxford English Dictionary). Any Questions?
• Plagiarism therefore has two elements:
– taking another’s work; and
– using the work as your own
• (Copying from the Internet)