Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

The module aims are to:

· Develop creative engineering teamwork skills

· Demonstrate and explore contemporary engineering challenges within the maritime sector

· Apply engineering teamwork techniques and processes to produce creative solutions for complex maritime problems that evidence some originality and meet a combination of societal, user, business and customer needs

· Appraise broad environmental, societal and life-cycle impacts of large scale implementation of engineered solutions to maritime challenges.

· Evaluate the effectiveness of own and team performance

Outline Of Syllabus

This module brings together the learning, knowledge and skills developed throughout the degree programme into a single capstone team project. Students are split into engineering teams. Each team identifies a contemporary maritime engineering challenge suitable for completing a concept level holistic design. Each team manages and delivers a concept design process with supervision from the academic staff within the marine technology group.

A series of seminars introduce teamworking skills and processes including: Team roles; Team effectiveness; Team building; Conflict management and resolution; Problem solving and dilemma methodology; Group management; Time management; Writing Group Reports; Group assessment.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

IKO1 – Identifying the individual attributes required by an effective member of a team; (M16,
IKO2 – Applying methods and techniques for optimizing teamworking; (M14, M16, M17, M18)
IKO3 – Developing specialised knowledge in the fields underpinning the chosen engineering challenge. (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5)

Intended Skill Outcomes

ISO1 – Applying a management structure for a group involved in technical work. (M15, M16, M18)
ISO2 - Develop interpersonal skills required for teamworking (M11, M14, M15, M16)
ISO3 - Communicate effectively using spoken, written and multimedia methods (M17)
ISO4 - Identify issues for research and to retrieve accurate and relevant information both in paper and digital formats (M4, M17)
ISO5 - Analyse and synthesise topics or large experimental or full scale data sets related to technical and/or design projects. (M3, M5)
ISO6 - Identify and order issues by relevance and importance. (M14, M15)
ISO7 - Synthesise materials from diverse sources. (M4)
ISO8 - Develop critical judgement skills. (M1, M2)
ISO9 – Evaluate competing solutions or arguments. (M14, M15, M16)

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The team is normally comprised of 6 students selected to provide parity between teams in terms of degree programme discipline representation and overall group ability. In the first semester, students are introduced to the issues of teamwork and team building in a series of lectures and seminars in which they carry out team awareness and team building exercises. In the second semester they have a regular slot in which they hold group meetings. Half of these take the form of seminars in which they present their current work and progress reports to the Group Project supervisors. Group Project Reports require, in various measure, literature review, analysis, synthesis evaluation and criticism of the work of others. The format of the report should aim at achieving the subject specific and cognitive skills as described above.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The dissertation is intended to provide the students with an opportunity to carry out a substantial group design project that involves considerable independent research and design work. The examiners assess the ability of a student to produce a written research report which demonstrates the intended learning outcomes described in IKO1-3 and ISO1 -9. Each group also provides an overview of the results of their project in a one hour presentation. This demonstrates the intended learning outcomes IKO1-3, and ISO1-9. All formal records of group working will be submitted in the Group Management Report, demonstrating the intended learning outcomes IKO2 and ISO1 and 2.

In doing so the skills of critical thinking, numeracy, data synthesis, literacy, active learning, source materials, synthesise and present materials, use of computer applications, goal setting & action planning, innovation & creativity, initiative, independence, problem solving, written communication, collaboration, negotiation, relationship building, leadership, negotiation, peer assessment/review, market awareness, financial awareness, ethical awareness governance awareness and business planning.

The dissertation, including contributions from all team members, should be no more than 300 pages in length excluding appendices.

General Notes

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