2015/16 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

MECH5585M Mini Project (Team)

30 creditsClass Size: 15

Module manager: Professor Anne Neville
Email: A.Neville@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

Pre-requisite qualifications

1st or 2nd (min 2i) class UK honours degree, or equivalent, in Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Mathematics or other relevant discipline.

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

- Have a thorough understanding of team roles, teamwork and creativity
- Work as part of a team on a major tribology design/research project.
- Understand the role of the professional tribologist in the context of enterprise, business and management.
- Apply formal methods of project planning and management, risk assessment and management and team working to a team engineering project.
- Develop an initial project outline into a detailed set of project aims, objectives and a work plan.
- Apply the skills of logical reasoning based on a comprehensive knowledge of design principles or engineering science, sound professional judgement, independent critical analysis and effective communication, taking into account commercial and industrial constraints, to the team project.
- Research technical literature and other information sources in order to gain the required extensive knowledge and understanding of engineering materials and components necessary to complete the project.
- Complete a major tribology project undertaking in a timely and professional manner as part of a team.
- Communicate the outcomes of the major tribology project in both written and verbal form to the stakeholders.

Skills outcomes
Students will have had the opportunity to develop the following skills through this module:

- Engineering reasoning and problem solving; experimenting; systems thinking; professional skills and attitudes; teamwork and leadership; communications; conceiving; modelling; analysis; designing / synthesis. All of these will be applied t a real tribology challenge set by the collaborating academics and industry

Syllabus

Students undertake an advanced tribology project in groups of 3 to 6 supervised by members of staff and mentored by a collaborator from industry. The projects are set up to emulate professional practices: students are required to develop a tender or business plan with industrial mentors acting as customers.

Projects are supported by a series of classes and seminars on tribology and underpinning skills needed in project management, team projects, information searching etc. Each week there will be a team meeting with at least one member of support staff.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminars	4	1.00	4.00
Class tests, exams and assessment	2	1.00	2.00
Group learning	11	3.00	33.00
Tutorial	11	1.00	11.00
Private study hours			250.00
Total Contact hours			50.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

This is an extensive project and the teams will have independent tasks as well as the team aspects and meetings detailed above. The independent learning will involve
- Researching aspects of the project
- Literature searching
- Developing tribology models and analysis of tribological systems
- Preparing for interim and final reports and presentations.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Each team will be monitored by academic members of staff and by appropriate industrial mentors through at least 11 meetings through the project. There will be a mix of individual and team-based assessment with peer and staff determined elements.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	Project Report - 20 pages	10.00
Group Project	40 pages	40.00
Literature Review	10 pages	10.00
Practical	Conduct during project	30.00
Presentation	Verbal presentation	10.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 09/01/2015

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