2018/19 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ELEC3885 Group Design Project

50 creditsClass Size: 100

Module manager: Dr Lotfi Mhamdi
Email: L.Mhamdi@leeds.ac.uk

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

Year running 2018/19

Module replaces

ELEC3880 Group Design Project

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

The Group Design Project (GDP) is a major, group-based, design and development project taken by students on the School's core degree programmes in the penultimate year of an MEng Honours degree. Groups of three or four students are involved in the organisation and delivery of a substantial engineering project. A report on the project is written and there is a public oral presentation at the end of the work.

Each project is supervised by an academic, who guides and monitors the work of the group through regular (usually weekly) meetings. However, it is a feature of the module to encourage self-organisation and use of initiative by the students.

At the conclusion of the module, the student should have gained significantly in self-confidence in the context of a team technical project; verbal and written communication skills should have developed and technical knowledge in some area should have been expanded.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- define an overall design objective and functional system block diagram, and propose a suitable distribution of sub-system parts for each group member to work on;
- propose a plan of work to develop an appropriate solution for the overall system and sub-systems, within the constraints of time and resources available;
- demonstrate project management skills including time planning, team working, working to deadlines and producing deliverables;
- demonstrate creativity, innovation and technical competence by implementing the project proposal, delivering the design and development work specified in the plan;
- manage technical uncertainty, analyse scenarios and identify realistic options;
- demonstrate proficiency in written and oral communications;
- understand how to make use of technical literature and other information sources;
- develop communication skills and the ability to reflect on progress by working with an expert (the project supervisor) and gain experience of their work being put under sustained scrutiny.

Syllabus

- Project planning and management. Identification of resources and managing cost drivers.
- Identification and analysis of project risk.
- Working with Gantt charts, work breakdown structure, critical path, milestones and deliverables.
- Safe working practices, Risk assessment.
- Report writing and oral presentation.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Meetings	15	1.00	15.00
Lectures	6	1.00	6.00
Private study hours			479.00
Total Contact hours			21.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			500.00

Private study

- Group and individual project contributions

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Work monitored during weekly meetings with supervisor.
- Students will receive feedback from the interim assessment which the students will apply to his/her continuing project work and in the writing of the final design report.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	Contribution to Preliminary Design Report	10.00
Presentation	Progress Presentation and Interview	10.00
Project	Overall Progress & Achievement	20.00
Report	6,000 word contribution to final Design Report	20.00
Presentation	Public Group Presentation	20.00
Viva	Individual viva	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Any student failing the group project will be transferred formally to the individual project module (ELEC3875) for the re-sit attempt. Re-sits for ELEC modules are subject to the rules in the School’s Code of Practice on Assessment. Students should be aware that, for some modules, a re-sit may only be conducted on an internal basis (with tuition) in the next academic session.

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 30/04/2018

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