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2013/14 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

CIVE1706 Integrated Design Project I

25 creditsClass Size: 170

Module manager: Dr L A Fletcher
Email: l.a.fletcher@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2013/14

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module students will have an increased knowledge and understanding of: the engineering design process, the principles of engineering analysis, the integration of various specific subjects as taught in other Level 1 modules, the impact of civil engineering on society, and the practical transferable skills required of a professional civil engineer.

Learning outcomes
- The engineering design process
- Principles of engineering analysis
- Integration of civil engineering principles
- Team working
- Use of IT in engineering
- Various forms of communication

Skills outcomes
By the end of the module students will be competent at:
- independent learning: the ability to deal with complex situations and take decisions;
- communicating with other students and staff;
- working independently to plan and implement tasks, including their own personal learning.
- improving personal performance through reflective review and target setting based on identified personal limitations;
- understanding team roles, assessing the effectiveness of teams, and having the ability to act as leader;
- practical skills in laboratories, including an understanding of health and safety issues;
- understanding the civil engineering profession through site visits and seminars by current practitioners.

Syllabus

The module aims to enhance the competence of students in drawing, including CAD, information technology, and design skills.

Drawing practice covers the drawing set, the importance of sketches and technical drawings as a means of communication, and an introduction to depiction, conventions and standard practice as use by practising civil engineers. Both hand drawing and CAD are used to illustrate these principles. It covers the role and limitations of the use of IT within civil engineering through the use of a variety of software packages.

Good practice is developed in the use of electronic media, the manipulation and presentation of data and information, and the role of computers in engineering analysis. A range of personal and professional skills are developed in the context of the design project and evidence of competences is presented in a personal folder. Students undertake reflective reviews on their progress and maintain personal development plans.

On completion of this module students will have developed skills in drawing (by hand and by CAD), IT, and at working both within a team and as an individual.

In order to demonstrate their competence and proress towards professionalism, students will undertake a specific design project that includes a feasibility study leading to an option analysis to produce a solution, which will be developed using a risk assessment. Withing the context of the project students will gain experience of project management, costing, quality, health and safety, environmental impact and sustainability. The project contains group and individual elements and students will have gained sufficient experience of the design process and associated underpinning skills to enable them to undertake more demanding projjects in later years of the course.

The students will also undertake a 'design, build and test' exercise to enhance their skills in critical analysis and improve their understanding of the construction process.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Consultation	13	1.00	12.50
Lecture	50	1.00	50.00
Practical	60	1.00	60.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			117.50
Total Contact hours			132.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			250.00

Private study

130 hours
- Group project work based on a specific brief and following the design process
- Individual work on IT, drawing and personal/professional development.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

The design project is developed through a series of tasks which are submitted as formative exercises. These include workshop activities covering planning, creativity and risk assessments; and organisational charts, presentations and task profiles. In addition there is a substantial formative exercise in the form of an option analysis which brings together all the activity of the first semester and is used to signpost the design work in the second semester.

The formative exercises are design to give feedback and given the importance of feedback in helping students learn through doing it is important that these exercises are submitted and submitted on time. Formative exercises are not marked but if they are not submitted on time then 2% will be deducted from the final mark for the module up to a maximum of 10%.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Project	Design Project	50.00
Reflective log	Design Skills	30.00
Project	Design, build and test	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Design Project: Individual design including key elements of the three core courework items, inc. formative assessments covering project management, feasibility report, option analysis, hazaed identification (note a penalty of -2% will be applied for late submission of formative exercises, up to a maximum of -10%). Design Skills: Including formative work on IT, project planning, drawing exercises, team working skills, reflective statements and self-assessment of skills, summative work on exercises on skills gap. To gain the credits for this module you MUST attend the following - Drawing office classes - IT classes - 4 Laboratory classes (Structures, Soils, Fluids Jets & Fluids Weir) - Model making and model testing - Presentations The overall mark must be 40% or more.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 17/10/2013

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