MEng, BEng Mechanical with Nuclear Engineering (Industrial) Year 3 Placement

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features in a range of aspects of mechanical with nuclear engineering;
- apply generic and specific to the nuclear engineering, intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied;
- appreciate and employ the main methods of enquiry in mechanical with nuclear engineering and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different methods of enquiry;
- use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;
- adjust to professional and disciplinary boundaries;
- effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to Mechanical with Nuclear Engineering;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of Mechanical with Nuclear Engineering to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to Mechanical with Nuclear Engineering;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.

Learning context

The learning context for this year will be simple if unpredictable and complex if predictable.

The study will be structured within a framework of tasks that provide breadth of study and proficiency in the application of concepts and techniques.