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2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

MECH3800 Professional Skills

10 creditsClass Size: 240

Module manager: Dr J L Summers
Email: J.L.Summers@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

Co-requisites

MECH3810

Individual Project

Module replaces

MECH 3600 Professional Studies

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

On completion of this module, candidates should be able to:
- create a project plan and appreciate the constraints and time resources in managing small projects
- identify the risks associated with a project, predict their likelihood and assess their potential impact
- describe the application of standards and codes of practice in engineering with special emphasis on health and safety
- describe their ethical standards and principles and relate them to professional engineering ethics, responsibility and accountability
- locate literature pertinent to their final year project and position their work against it
- describe how intellectual property can be protected using copyright, design registration and patents
- describe the elements of critical thinking and relate them to engineering problems.

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

- Engineering reasoning and problem solving
- Systems thinking
- Professional skills and attitudes
- Project and risk management
- Research skills.

Syllabus

Health and safety, risk management, project management, intellectual property, standards and codes of practice, engineering ethics, literature searching and reviewing, critical thinking.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	8	2.00	16.00
Seminar	3	2.00	6.00
Private study hours			78.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Private study

Individual study of module material.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored by project supervisors.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	Ethics report	45.00
Report	Interim report	55.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

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

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 20/02/2015

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